Book 13 1 Chronicles

13:001:001 Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

13:001:002 Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,

13:001:003 Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

13:001:004 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

13:001:005 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

13:001:006 And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

13:001:007 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

13:001:008 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

13:001:009 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

13:001:010 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

13:001:011 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

13:001:012 And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.

13:001:013 And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

13:001:014 The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

13:001:015 And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

13:001:016 And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

13:001:017 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

13:001:018 And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

13:001:019 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.

13:001:020 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

13:001:021 Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,

13:001:022 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

13:001:023 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

13:001:024 Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

13:001:025 Eber, Peleg, Reu,

13:001:026 Serug, Nahor, Terah,

13:001:027 Abram; the same is Abraham.

13:001:028 The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.

13:001:029 These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

13:001:030 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

13:001:031 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

13:001:032 Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

13:001:033 And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.

13:001:034 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.

13:001:035 The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

13:001:036 The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

13:001:037 The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

13:001:038 And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.

13:001:039 And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.

13:001:040 The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. and the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.

13:001:041 The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

13:001:042 The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.

13:001:043 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

13:001:044 And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

13:001:045 And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

13:001:046 And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

13:001:047 And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

13:001:048 And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.

13:001:049 And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

13:001:050 And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

13:001:051 Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,

13:001:052 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

13:001:053 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,

13:001:054 Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.

13:002:001 These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

13:002:002 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

13:002:003 The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.

13:002:004 And Tamar his daughter in law bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

13:002:005 The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.

13:002:006 And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.

13:002:007 And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.

13:002:008 And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.

13:002:009 The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

13:002:010 And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;

13:002:011 And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

13:002:012 And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

13:002:013 And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

13:002:014 Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

13:002:015 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh:

13:002:016 Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

13:002:017 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.

13:002:018 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

13:002:019 And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.

13:002:020 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.

13:002:021 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

13:002:022 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

13:002:023 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

13:002:024 And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

13:002:025 And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.

13:002:026 Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

13:002:027 And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

13:002:028 And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab and Abishur.

13:002:029 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.

13:002:030 And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.

13:002:031 And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.

13:002:032 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai; Jether, and Jonathan: and Jether died without children.

13:002:033 And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

13:002:034 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

13:002:035 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.

13:002:036 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,

13:002:037 And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,

13:002:038 And Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,

13:002:039 And Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,

13:002:040 And Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,

13:002:041 And Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

13:002:042 Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

13:002:043 And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.

13:002:044 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkoam: and Rekem begat Shammai.

13:002:045 And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.

13:002:046 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.

13:002:047 And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.

13:002:048 Maachah, Caleb's concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.

13:002:049 She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.

13:002:050 These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim.

13:002:051 Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.

13:002:052 And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.

13:002:053 And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites,

13:002:054 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.

13:002:055 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

13:003:001 Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:

13:003:002 The third, Absalom the son of Maachah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur: the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:

13:003:003 The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

13:003:004 These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

13:003:005 And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:

13:003:006 Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,

13:003:007 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

13:003:008 And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

13:003:009 These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.

13:003:010 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abia his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

13:003:011 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

13:003:012 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

13:003:013 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,

13:003:014 Amon his son, Josiah his son.

13:003:015 And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

13:003:016 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

13:003:017 And the sons of Jeconiah; Assir, Salathiel his son,

13:003:018 Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

13:003:019 And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:

13:003:020 And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, five.

13:003:021 And the sons of Hananiah; Pelatiah, and Jesaiah: the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shechaniah.

13:003:022 And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

13:003:023 And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.

13:003:024 And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.

13:004:001 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

13:004:002 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

13:004:003 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:

13:004:004 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.

13:004:005 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

13:004:006 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

13:004:007 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.

13:004:008 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

13:004:009 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

13:004:010 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

13:004:011 And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

13:004:012 And Eshton begat Bethrapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These are the men of Rechah.

13:004:013 And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

13:004:014 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab, the father of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen.

13:004:015 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.

13:004:016 And the sons of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.

13:004:017 And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

13:004:018 And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

13:004:019 And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

13:004:020 And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Benhanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Benzoheth.

13:004:021 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

13:004:022 And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. And these are ancient things.

13:004:023 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

13:004:024 The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:

13:004:025 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

13:004:026 And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.

13:004:027 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters: but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.

13:004:028 And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,

13:004:029 And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

13:004:030 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

13:004:031 And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

13:004:032 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

13:004:033 And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

13:004:034 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,

13:004:035 And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

13:004:036 And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,

13:004:037 And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;

13:004:038 These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

13:004:039 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

13:004:040 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

13:004:041 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their flocks.

13:004:042 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

13:004:043 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

13:005:001 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

13:005:002 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

13:005:003 The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

13:005:004 The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,

13:005:005 Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son,

13:005:006 Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.

13:005:007 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned, were the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,

13:005:008 And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baalmeon:

13:005:009 And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

13:005:010 And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

13:005:011 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salcah:

13:005:012 Joel the chief, and Shapham the next, and Jaanai, and Shaphat in Bashan.

13:005:013 And their brethren of the house of their fathers were, Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jachan, and Zia, and Heber, seven.

13:005:014 These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

13:005:015 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.

13:005:016 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.

13:005:017 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.

13:005:018 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

13:005:019 And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.

13:005:020 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

13:005:021 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men an hundred thousand.

13:005:022 For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

13:005:023 And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baalhermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.

13:005:024 And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

13:005:025 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

13:005:026 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

13:006:001 The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

13:006:002 And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

13:006:003 And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

13:006:004 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,

13:006:005 And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,

13:006:006 And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,

13:006:007 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

13:006:008 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

13:006:009 And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

13:006:010 And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)

13:006:011 And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

13:006:012 And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,

13:006:013 And Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,

13:006:014 And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,

13:006:015 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

13:006:016 The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

13:006:017 And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.

13:006:018 And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

13:006:019 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

13:006:020 Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

13:006:021 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.

13:006:022 The sons of Kohath; Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

13:006:023 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

13:006:024 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

13:006:025 And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth.

13:006:026 As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

13:006:027 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

13:006:028 And the sons of Samuel; the firstborn Vashni, and Abiah.

13:006:029 The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,

13:006:030 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

13:006:031 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.

13:006:032 And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.

13:006:033 And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,

13:006:034 The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

13:006:035 The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

13:006:036 The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

13:006:037 The son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

13:006:038 The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

13:006:039 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

13:006:040 The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,

13:006:041 The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

13:006:042 The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

13:006:043 The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

13:006:044 And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

13:006:045 The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

13:006:046 The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,

13:006:047 The son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

13:006:048 Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

13:006:049 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

13:006:050 And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

13:006:051 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,

13:006:052 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

13:006:053 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

13:006:054 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.

13:006:055 And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.

13:006:056 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

13:006:057 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

13:006:058 And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,

13:006:059 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:

13:006:060 And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

13:006:061 And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.

13:006:062 And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

13:006:063 Unto the sons of Merari were given by lot, throughout their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

13:006:064 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

13:006:065 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.

13:006:066 And the residue of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe of Ephraim.

13:006:067 And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,

13:006:068 And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs,

13:006:069 And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:

13:006:070 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.

13:006:071 Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:

13:006:072 And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

13:006:073 And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:

13:006:074 And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,

13:006:075 And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:

13:006:076 And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.

13:006:077 Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:

13:006:078 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,

13:006:079 Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:

13:006:080 And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

13:006:081 And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

13:007:001 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four.

13:007:002 And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

13:007:003 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.

13:007:004 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for they had many wives and sons.

13:007:005 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

13:007:006 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

13:007:007 And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

13:007:008 And the sons of Becher; Zemira, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jerimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth. All these are the sons of Becher.

13:007:009 And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.

13:007:010 The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

13:007:011 All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

13:007:012 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.

13:007:013 The sons of Naphtali; Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

13:007:014 The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:

13:007:015 And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.

13:007:016 And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

13:007:017 And the sons of Ulam; Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

13:007:018 And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

13:007:019 And the sons of Shemidah were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

13:007:020 And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,

13:007:021 And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

13:007:022 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

13:007:023 And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

13:007:024 (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)

13:007:025 And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son.

13:007:026 Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son.

13:007:027 Non his son, Jehoshuah his son.

13:007:028 And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:

13:007:029 And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Bethshean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.

13:007:030 The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

13:007:031 And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.

13:007:032 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

13:007:033 And the sons of Japhlet; Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

13:007:034 And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

13:007:035 And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

13:007:036 The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

13:007:037 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

13:007:038 And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara.

13:007:039 And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.

13:007:040 All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

13:008:001 Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

13:008:002 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.

13:008:003 And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,

13:008:004 And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,

13:008:005 And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

13:008:006 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:

13:008:007 And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.

13:008:008 And Shaharaim begat children in the country of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

13:008:009 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

13:008:010 And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of the fathers.

13:008:011 And of Hushim he begat Abitub, and Elpaal.

13:008:012 The sons of Elpaal; Eber, and Misham, and Shamed, who built Ono, and Lod, with the towns thereof:

13:008:013 Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:

13:008:014 And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,

13:008:015 And Zebadiah, and Arad, and Ader,

13:008:016 And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;

13:008:017 And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, and Heber,

13:008:018 Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;

13:008:019 And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,

13:008:020 And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,

13:008:021 And Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimhi;

13:008:022 And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,

13:008:023 And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,

13:008:024 And Hananiah, and Elam, and Antothijah,

13:008:025 And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;

13:008:026 And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,

13:008:027 And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.

13:008:028 These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.

13:008:029 And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:

13:008:030 And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,

13:008:031 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.

13:008:032 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.

13:008:033 And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

13:008:034 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.

13:008:035 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.

13:008:036 And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,

13:008:037 And Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son:

13:008:038 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

13:008:039 And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

13:008:040 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.

13:009:001 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

13:009:002 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims.

13:009:003 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim, and Manasseh;

13:009:004 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.

13:009:005 And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.

13:009:006 And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

13:009:007 And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah,

13:009:008 And Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

13:009:009 And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their fathers.

13:009:010 And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,

13:009:011 And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

13:009:012 And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

13:009:013 And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

13:009:014 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

13:009:015 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

13:009:016 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

13:009:017 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;

13:009:018 Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

13:009:019 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.

13:009:020 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the ruler over them in time past, and the LORD was with him.

13:009:021 And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

13:009:022 All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

13:009:023 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.

13:009:024 In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

13:009:025 And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with them.

13:009:026 For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

13:009:027 And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.

13:009:028 And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.

13:009:029 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.

13:009:030 And some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices.

13:009:031 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.

13:009:032 And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

13:009:033 And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.

13:009:034 These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.

13:009:035 And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:

13:009:036 And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab.

13:009:037 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.

13:009:038 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.

13:009:039 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.

13:009:040 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begat Micah.

13:009:041 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.

13:009:042 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;

13:009:043 And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

13:009:044 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

13:010:001 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

13:010:002 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

13:010:003 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

13:010:004 Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

13:010:005 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.

13:010:006 So Saul died, and his three sons, and all his house died together.

13:010:007 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

13:010:008 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

13:010:009 And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

13:010:010 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

13:010:011 And when all Jabeshgilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

13:010:012 They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

13:010:013 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;

13:010:014 And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

13:011:001 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

13:011:002 And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

13:011:003 Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

13:011:004 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.

13:011:005 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.

13:011:006 And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.

13:011:007 And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.

13:011:008 And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

13:011:009 So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.

13:011:010 These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

13:011:011 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

13:011:012 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.

13:011:013 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.

13:011:014 And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.

13:011:015 Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

13:011:016 And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.

13:011:017 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!

13:011:018 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.

13:011:019 And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.

13:011:020 And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.

13:011:021 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

13:011:022 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.

13:011:023 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

13:011:024 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.

13:011:025 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

13:011:026 Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

13:011:027 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

13:011:028 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,

13:011:029 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

13:011:030 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

13:011:031 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, that pertained to the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

13:011:032 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,

13:011:033 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

13:011:034 The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,

13:011:035 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

13:011:036 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

13:011:037 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,

13:011:038 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Haggeri,

13:011:039 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

13:011:040 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

13:011:041 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

13:011:042 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a captain of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

13:011:043 Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,

13:011:044 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,

13:011:045 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

13:011:046 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

13:011:047 Eliel, and Obed, and Jasiel the Mesobaite.

13:012:001 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

13:012:002 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

13:012:003 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite.

13:012:004 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

13:012:005 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

13:012:006 Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,

13:012:007 And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

13:012:008 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;

13:012:009 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

13:012:010 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,

13:012:011 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,

13:012:012 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,

13:012:013 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

13:012:014 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

13:012:015 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

13:012:016 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

13:012:017 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

13:012:018 Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

13:012:019 And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.

13:012:020 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.

13:012:021 And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.

13:012:022 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.

13:012:023 And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

13:012:024 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

13:012:025 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.

13:012:026 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.

13:012:027 And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;

13:012:028 And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.

13:012:029 And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.

13:012:030 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.

13:012:031 And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.

13:012:032 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

13:012:033 Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank: they were not of double heart.

13:012:034 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.

13:012:035 And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.

13:012:036 And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.

13:012:037 And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.

13:012:038 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

13:012:039 And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.

13:012:040 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

13:013:001 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.

13:013:002 And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:

13:013:003 And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.

13:013:004 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

13:013:005 So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.

13:013:006 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.

13:013:007 And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.

13:013:008 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

13:013:009 And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.

13:013:010 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.

13:013:011 And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.

13:013:012 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

13:013:013 So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

13:013:014 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.

13:014:001 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.

13:014:002 And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.

13:014:003 And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.

13:014:004 Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

13:014:005 And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,

13:014:006 And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

13:014:007 And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.

13:014:008 And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it, and went out against them.

13:014:009 And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

13:014:010 And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.

13:014:011 So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baalperazim.

13:014:012 And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.

13:014:013 And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.

13:014:014 Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

13:014:015 And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.

13:014:016 David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.

13:014:017 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.

13:015:001 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

13:015:002 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.

13:015:003 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

13:015:004 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:

13:015:005 Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:

13:015:006 Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:

13:015:007 Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief and his brethren an hundred and thirty:

13:015:008 Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:

13:015:009 Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:

13:015:010 Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

13:015:011 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

13:015:012 And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.

13:015:013 For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

13:015:014 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

13:015:015 And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.

13:015:016 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

13:015:017 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

13:015:018 And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.

13:015:019 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

13:015:020 And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

13:015:021 And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

13:015:022 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

13:015:023 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

13:015:024 And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

13:015:025 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.

13:015:026 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.

13:015:027 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.

13:015:028 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

13:015:029 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

13:016:001 So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

13:016:002 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.

13:016:003 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.

13:016:004 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:

13:016:005 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

13:016:006 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

13:016:007 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

13:016:008 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.

13:016:009 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

13:016:010 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

13:016:011 Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.

13:016:012 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

13:016:013 O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

13:016:014 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.

13:016:015 Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

13:016:016 Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;

13:016:017 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

13:016:018 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;

13:016:019 When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

13:016:020 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

13:016:021 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

13:016:022 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

13:016:023 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.

13:016:024 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.

13:016:025 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.

13:016:026 For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

13:016:027 Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.

13:016:028 Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

13:016:029 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

13:016:030 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

13:016:031 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.

13:016:032 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.

13:016:033 Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.

13:016:034 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

13:016:035 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.

13:016:036 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.

13:016:037 So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:

13:016:038 And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:

13:016:039 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,

13:016:040 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;

13:016:041 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;

13:016:042 And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.

13:016:043 And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

13:017:001 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains.

13:017:002 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.

13:017:003 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

13:017:004 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:

13:017:005 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

13:017:006 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?

13:017:007 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:

13:017:008 And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

13:017:009 Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,

13:017:010 And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.

13:017:011 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

13:017:012 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his throne for ever.

13:017:013 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:

13:017:014 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.

13:017:015 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

13:017:016 And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

13:017:017 And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.

13:017:018 What can David speak more to thee for the honour of thy servant? for thou knowest thy servant.

13:017:019 O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

13:017:020 O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

13:017:021 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

13:017:022 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.

13:017:023 Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.

13:017:024 Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.

13:017:025 For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.

13:017:026 And now, LORD, thou art God, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

13:017:027 Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

13:018:001 Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

13:018:002 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.

13:018:003 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

13:018:004 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.

13:018:005 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

13:018:006 Then David put garrisons in Syriadamascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought gifts. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

13:018:007 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

13:018:008 Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

13:018:009 Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;

13:018:010 He sent Hadoram his son to king David, to enquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;) and with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.

13:018:011 Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

13:018:012 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

13:018:013 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.

13:018:014 So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.

13:018:015 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.

13:018:016 And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

13:018:017 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were chief about the king.

13:019:001 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

13:019:002 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

13:019:003 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

13:019:004 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

13:019:005 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

13:019:006 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.

13:019:007 So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

13:019:008 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

13:019:009 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

13:019:010 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

13:019:011 And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

13:019:012 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.

13:019:013 Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.

13:019:014 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

13:019:015 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

13:019:016 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

13:019:017 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

13:019:018 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

13:019:019 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

13:020:001 And it came to pass, that after the year was expired, at the time that kings go out to battle, Joab led forth the power of the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and destroyed it.

13:020:002 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.

13:020:003 And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

13:020:004 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.

13:020:005 And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.

13:020:006 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giant.

13:020:007 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.

13:020:008 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

13:021:001 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

13:021:002 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

13:021:003 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

13:021:004 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.

13:021:005 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

13:021:006 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

13:021:007 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

13:021:008 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

13:021:009 And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,

13:021:010 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

13:021:011 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee

13:021:012 Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

13:021:013 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

13:021:014 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

13:021:015 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

13:021:016 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

13:021:017 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.

13:021:018 Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

13:021:019 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD.

13:021:020 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

13:021:021 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.

13:021:022 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people.

13:021:023 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.

13:021:024 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

13:021:025 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

13:021:026 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

13:021:027 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.

13:021:028 At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

13:021:029 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

13:021:030 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

13:022:001 Then David said, This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

13:022:002 And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

13:022:003 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;

13:022:004 Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

13:022:005 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

13:022:006 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.

13:022:007 And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God:

13:022:008 But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

13:022:009 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

13:022:010 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

13:022:011 Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.

13:022:012 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.

13:022:013 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

13:022:014 Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

13:022:015 Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

13:022:016 Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.

13:022:017 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

13:022:018 Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.

13:022:019 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.

13:023:001 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

13:023:002 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

13:023:003 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

13:023:004 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:

13:023:005 Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

13:023:006 And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

13:023:007 Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.

13:023:008 The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

13:023:009 The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.

13:023:010 And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

13:023:011 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's house.

13:023:012 The sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.

13:023:013 The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to burn incense before the LORD, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name for ever.

13:023:014 Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.

13:023:015 The sons of Moses were, Gershom, and Eliezer.

13:023:016 Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.

13:023:017 And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

13:023:018 Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.

13:023:019 Of the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

13:023:020 Of the sons of Uzziel; Micah the first and Jesiah the second.

13:023:021 The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. The sons of Mahli; Eleazar, and Kish.

13:023:022 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.

13:023:023 The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

13:023:024 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

13:023:025 For David said, The LORD God of Israel hath given rest unto his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:

13:023:026 And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.

13:023:027 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:

13:023:028 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;

13:023:029 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;

13:023:030 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even:

13:023:031 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:

13:023:032 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.

13:024:001 Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

13:024:002 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.

13:024:003 And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.

13:024:004 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.

13:024:005 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

13:024:006 And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

13:024:007 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

13:024:008 The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

13:024:009 The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,

13:024:010 The seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

13:024:011 The ninth to Jeshuah, the tenth to Shecaniah,

13:024:012 The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,

13:024:013 The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,

13:024:014 The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,

13:024:015 The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,

13:024:016 The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,

13:024:017 The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,

13:024:018 The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.

13:024:019 These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

13:024:020 And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.

13:024:021 Concerning Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, the first was Isshiah.

13:024:022 Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.

13:024:023 And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

13:024:024 Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.

13:024:025 The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.

13:024:026 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

13:024:027 The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.

13:024:028 Of Mahli came Eleazar, who had no sons.

13:024:029 Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.

13:024:030 The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.

13:024:031 These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.

13:025:001 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

13:025:002 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.

13:025:003 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.

13:025:004 Of Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:

13:025:005 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

13:025:006 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

13:025:007 So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.

13:025:008 And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

13:025:009 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah, who with his brethren and sons were twelve:

13:025:010 The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:011 The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:012 The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:013 The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:014 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:015 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:016 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:017 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:018 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:019 The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:020 The thirteenth to Shubael, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:021 The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:022 The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:023 The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:024 The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:025 The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:026 The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:027 The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:028 The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:029 The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:030 The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

13:025:031 The four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve.

13:026:001 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

13:026:002 And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

13:026:003 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elioenai the seventh.

13:026:004 Moreover the sons of Obededom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth.

13:026:005 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.

13:026:006 Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.

13:026:007 The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

13:026:008 All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obededom.

13:026:009 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.

13:026:010 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)

13:026:011 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

13:026:012 Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.

13:026:013 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.

13:026:014 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

13:026:015 To Obededom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.

13:026:016 To Shuppim and Hosah the lot came forth westward, with the gate Shallecheth, by the causeway of the going up, ward against ward.

13:026:017 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

13:026:018 At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

13:026:019 These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.

13:026:020 And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

13:026:021 As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli.

13:026:022 The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.

13:026:023 Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:

13:026:024 And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.

13:026:025 And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

13:026:026 Which Shelomith and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the chief fathers, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.

13:026:027 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.

13:026:028 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.

13:026:029 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

13:026:030 And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.

13:026:031 Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.

13:026:032 And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

13:027:001 Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:002 Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:003 Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.

13:027:004 And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:005 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:006 This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.

13:027:007 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:008 The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:009 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:010 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:011 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:012 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:013 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:014 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:015 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

13:027:016 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:

13:027:017 Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:

13:027:018 Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

13:027:019 Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel:

13:027:020 Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:

13:027:021 Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:

13:027:022 Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.

13:027:023 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

13:027:024 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

13:027:025 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jehonathan the son of Uzziah:

13:027:026 And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

13:027:027 And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:

13:027:028 And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:

13:027:029 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:

13:027:030 Over the camels also was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite:

13:027:031 And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.

13:027:032 Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:

13:027:033 And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:

13:027:034 And after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the general of the king's army was Joab.

13:028:001 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.

13:028:002 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

13:028:003 But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build an house for my name, because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood.

13:028:004 Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:

13:028:005 And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

13:028:006 And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

13:028:007 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.

13:028:008 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.

13:028:009 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

13:028:010 Take heed now; for the LORD hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

13:028:011 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

13:028:012 And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:

13:028:013 Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.

13:028:014 He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:

13:028:015 Even the weight for the candlesticks of gold, and for their lamps of gold, by weight for every candlestick, and for the lamps thereof: and for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick, and also for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick.

13:028:016 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:

13:028:017 Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:

13:028:018 And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

13:028:019 All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.

13:028:020 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

13:028:021 And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.

13:029:001 Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

13:029:002 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

13:029:003 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house.

13:029:004 Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:

13:029:005 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?

13:029:006 Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,

13:029:007 And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.

13:029:008 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

13:029:009 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

13:029:010 Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

13:029:011 Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.

13:029:012 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

13:029:013 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

13:029:014 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

13:029:015 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

13:029:016 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.

13:029:017 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

13:029:018 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

13:029:019 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.

13:029:020 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.

13:029:021 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

13:029:022 And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.

13:029:023 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.

13:029:024 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.

13:029:025 And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.

13:029:026 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

13:029:027 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

13:029:028 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

13:029:029 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,

13:029:030 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

Book 14 2 Chronicles

14:001:001 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

14:001:002 Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.

14:001:003 So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

14:001:004 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

14:001:005 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

14:001:006 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

14:001:007 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

14:001:008 And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

14:001:009 Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

14:001:010 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

14:001:011 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

14:001:012 Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

14:001:013 Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

14:001:014 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

14:001:015 And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.

14:001:016 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

14:001:017 And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

14:002:001 And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

14:002:002 And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

14:002:003 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As thou didst deal with David my father, and didst send him cedars to build him an house to dwell therein, even so deal with me.

14:002:004 Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

14:002:005 And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.

14:002:006 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?

14:002:007 Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

14:002:008 Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

14:002:009 Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

14:002:010 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

14:002:011 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.

14:002:012 Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.

14:002:013 And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,

14:002:014 The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

14:002:015 Now therefore the wheat, and the barley, the oil, and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

14:002:016 And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

14:002:017 And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

14:002:018 And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

14:003:001 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

14:003:002 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

14:003:003 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

14:003:004 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

14:003:005 And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

14:003:006 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

14:003:007 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

14:003:008 And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

14:003:009 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

14:003:010 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.

14:003:011 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

14:003:012 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

14:003:013 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.

14:003:014 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

14:003:015 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

14:003:016 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

14:003:017 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

14:004:001 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

14:004:002 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

14:004:003 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

14:004:004 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

14:004:005 And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

14:004:006 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

14:004:007 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

14:004:008 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.

14:004:009 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

14:004:010 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

14:004:011 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;

14:004:012 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;

14:004:013 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.

14:004:014 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

14:004:015 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

14:004:016 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

14:004:017 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

14:004:018 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

14:004:019 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;

14:004:020 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

14:004:021 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

14:004:022 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

14:005:001 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

14:005:002 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.

14:005:003 Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

14:005:004 And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

14:005:005 And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

14:005:006 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

14:005:007 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:

14:005:008 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

14:005:009 And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

14:005:010 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

14:005:011 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:

14:005:012 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

14:005:013 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

14:005:014 So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of God.

14:006:001 Then said Solomon, The LORD hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

14:006:002 But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.

14:006:003 And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

14:006:004 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spake with his mouth to my father David, saying,

14:006:005 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

14:006:006 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

14:006:007 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

14:006:008 But the LORD said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

14:006:009 Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

14:006:010 The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

14:006:011 And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.

14:006:012 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:

14:006:013 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven.

14:006:014 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

14:006:015 Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

14:006:016 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

14:006:017 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.

14:006:018 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

14:006:019 Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

14:006:020 That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

14:006:021 Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

14:006:022 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

14:006:023 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

14:006:024 And if thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee; and shall return and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

14:006:025 Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

14:006:026 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

14:006:027 Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

14:006:028 If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

14:006:029 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

14:006:030 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

14:006:031 That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

14:006:032 Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

14:006:033 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

14:006:034 If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

14:006:035 Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

14:006:036 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

14:006:037 Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

14:006:038 If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

14:006:039 Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee.

14:006:040 Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

14:006:041 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

14:006:042 O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

14:007:001 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house.

14:007:002 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD's house.

14:007:003 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

14:007:004 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD.

14:007:005 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

14:007:006 And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

14:007:007 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

14:007:008 Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

14:007:009 And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

14:007:010 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

14:007:011 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

14:007:012 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.

14:007:013 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

14:007:014 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

14:007:015 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

14:007:016 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

14:007:017 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

14:007:018 Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

14:007:019 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

14:007:020 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

14:007:021 And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

14:007:022 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

14:008:001 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,

14:008:002 That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

14:008:003 And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it.

14:008:004 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.

14:008:005 Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

14:008:006 And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.

14:008:007 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

14:008:008 But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.

14:008:009 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and captains of his chariots and horsemen.

14:008:010 And these were the chief of king Solomon's officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

14:008:011 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

14:008:012 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch,

14:008:013 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

14:008:014 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

14:008:015 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

14:008:016 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was perfected.

14:008:017 Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.

14:008:018 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

14:009:001 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

14:009:002 And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

14:009:003 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

14:009:004 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

14:009:005 And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

14:009:006 Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

14:009:007 Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

14:009:008 Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

14:009:009 And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

14:009:010 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

14:009:011 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

14:009:012 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

14:009:013 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold;

14:009:014 Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

14:009:015 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

14:009:016 And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

14:009:017 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

14:009:018 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

14:009:019 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.

14:009:020 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

14:009:021 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

14:009:022 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

14:009:023 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, that God had put in his heart.

14:009:024 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

14:009:025 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

14:009:026 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

14:009:027 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.

14:009:028 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of all lands.

14:009:029 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

14:009:030 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

14:009:031 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

14:010:001 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.

14:010:002 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

14:010:003 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,

14:010:004 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

14:010:005 And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

14:010:006 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

14:010:007 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.

14:010:008 But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

14:010:009 And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

14:010:010 And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.

14:010:011 For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

14:010:012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day.

14:010:013 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

14:010:014 And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

14:010:015 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

14:010:016 And when all Israel saw that the king would not hearken unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? and we have none inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: and now, David, see to thine own house. So all Israel went to their tents.

14:010:017 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

14:010:018 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

14:010:019 And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

14:011:001 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

14:011:002 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

14:011:003 Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

14:011:004 Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

14:011:005 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.

14:011:006 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

14:011:007 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

14:011:008 And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

14:011:009 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

14:011:010 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.

14:011:011 And he fortified the strong holds, and put captains in them, and store of victual, and of oil and wine.

14:011:012 And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.

14:011:013 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts.

14:011:014 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:

14:011:015 And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

14:011:016 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the LORD God of their fathers.

14:011:017 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

14:011:018 And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

14:011:019 Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.

14:011:020 And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

14:011:021 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

14:011:022 And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.

14:011:023 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

14:012:001 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.

14:012:002 And it came to pass, that in the fifth year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD,

14:012:003 With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.

14:012:004 And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

14:012:005 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

14:012:006 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.

14:012:007 And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

14:012:008 Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.

14:012:009 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

14:012:010 Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king's house.

14:012:011 And when the king entered into the house of the LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.

14:012:012 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.

14:012:013 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

14:012:014 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.

14:012:015 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

14:012:016 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

14:013:001 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

14:013:002 He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

14:013:003 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.

14:013:004 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

14:013:005 Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

14:013:006 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

14:013:007 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

14:013:008 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with your golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

14:013:009 Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

14:013:010 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:

14:013:011 And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.

14:013:012 And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

14:013:013 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

14:013:014 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the LORD, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

14:013:015 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

14:013:016 And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

14:013:017 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

14:013:018 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon the LORD God of their fathers.

14:013:019 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephraim with the towns thereof.

14:013:020 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the LORD struck him, and he died.

14:013:021 But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

14:013:022 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

14:014:001 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.

14:014:002 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:

14:014:003 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

14:014:004 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

14:014:005 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

14:014:006 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.

14:014:007 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

14:014:008 And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.

14:014:009 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.

14:014:010 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

14:014:011 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.

14:014:012 So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

14:014:013 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

14:014:014 And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

14:014:015 They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

14:015:001 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:

14:015:002 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

14:015:003 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

14:015:004 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

14:015:005 And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

14:015:006 And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

14:015:007 Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

14:015:008 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

14:015:009 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

14:015:010 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

14:015:011 And they offered unto the LORD the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

14:015:012 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

14:015:013 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

14:015:014 And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

14:015:015 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.

14:015:016 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

14:015:017 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

14:015:018 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

14:015:019 And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

14:016:001 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

14:016:002 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,

14:016:003 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

14:016:004 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

14:016:005 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.

14:016:006 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

14:016:007 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.

14:016:008 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.

14:016:009 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

14:016:010 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

14:016:011 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

14:016:012 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

14:016:013 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

14:016:014 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

14:017:001 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.

14:017:002 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

14:017:003 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

14:017:004 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

14:017:005 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.

14:017:006 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

14:017:007 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Benhail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

14:017:008 And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

14:017:009 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

14:017:010 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

14:017:011 Also some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and tribute silver; and the Arabians brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he goats.

14:017:012 And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

14:017:013 And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem.

14:017:014 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

14:017:015 And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.

14:017:016 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour.

14:017:017 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

14:017:018 And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

14:017:019 These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

14:018:001 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.

14:018:002 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.

14:018:003 And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.

14:018:004 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.

14:018:005 Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.

14:018:006 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?

14:018:007 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

14:018:008 And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.

14:018:009 And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

14:018:010 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

14:018:011 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

14:018:012 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.

14:018:013 And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.

14:018:014 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.

14:018:015 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?

14:018:016 Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.

14:018:017 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

14:018:018 Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.

14:018:019 And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

14:018:020 Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?

14:018:021 And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

14:018:022 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

14:018:023 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

14:018:024 And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

14:018:025 Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;

14:018:026 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

14:018:027 And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.

14:018:028 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.

14:018:029 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.

14:018:030 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.

14:018:031 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

14:018:032 For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.

14:018:033 And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

14:018:034 And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

14:019:001 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

14:019:002 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

14:019:003 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

14:019:004 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the LORD God of their fathers.

14:019:005 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

14:019:006 And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the LORD, who is with you in the judgment.

14:019:007 Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.

14:019:008 Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.

14:019:009 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

14:019:010 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

14:019:011 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.

14:020:001 It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

14:020:002 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.

14:020:003 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

14:020:004 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

14:020:005 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,

14:020:006 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

14:020:007 Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

14:020:008 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

14:020:009 If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

14:020:010 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

14:020:011 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

14:020:012 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

14:020:013 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

14:020:014 Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;

14:020:015 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

14:020:016 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

14:020:017 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

14:020:018 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

14:020:019 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

14:020:020 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

14:020:021 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

14:020:022 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

14:020:023 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.

14:020:024 And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

14:020:025 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.

14:020:026 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.

14:020:027 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

14:020:028 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

14:020:029 And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.

14:020:030 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.

14:020:031 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

14:020:032 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

14:020:033 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

14:020:034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

14:020:035 And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

14:020:036 And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.

14:020:037 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

14:021:001 Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

14:021:002 And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

14:021:003 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fenced cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram; because he was the firstborn.

14:021:004 Now when Jehoram was risen up to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the princes of Israel.

14:021:005 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

14:021:006 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

14:021:007 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

14:021:008 In his days the Edomites revolted from under the dominion of Judah, and made themselves a king.

14:021:009 Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots.

14:021:010 So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.

14:021:011 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

14:021:012 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

14:021:013 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:

14:021:014 Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

14:021:015 And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

14:021:016 Moreover the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:

14:021:017 And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

14:021:018 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

14:021:019 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

14:021:020 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

14:022:001 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

14:022:002 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

14:022:003 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

14:022:004 Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

14:022:005 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

14:022:006 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds which were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jezreel, because he was sick.

14:022:007 And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

14:022:008 And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.

14:022:009 And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.

14:022:010 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.

14:022:011 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.

14:022:012 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

14:023:001 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

14:023:002 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.

14:023:003 And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as the LORD hath said of the sons of David.

14:023:004 This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;

14:023:005 And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.

14:023:006 But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

14:023:007 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

14:023:008 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

14:023:009 Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.

14:023:010 And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.

14:023:011 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.

14:023:012 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:

14:023:013 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.

14:023:014 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house of the LORD.

14:023:015 So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.

14:023:016 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people.

14:023:017 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

14:023:018 Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

14:023:019 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

14:023:020 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

14:023:021 And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.

14:024:001 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beersheba.

14:024:002 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

14:024:003 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

14:024:004 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.

14:024:005 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

14:024:006 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

14:024:007 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.

14:024:008 And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD.

14:024:009 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.

14:024:010 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

14:024:011 Now it came to pass, that at what time the chest was brought unto the king's office by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to his place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

14:024:012 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

14:024:013 So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

14:024:014 And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.

14:024:015 But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

14:024:016 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.

14:024:017 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

14:024:018 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

14:024:019 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

14:024:020 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

14:024:021 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.

14:024:022 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.

14:024:023 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.

14:024:024 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.

14:024:025 And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

14:024:026 And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.

14:024:027 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the repairing of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

14:025:001 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

14:025:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

14:025:003 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

14:025:004 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

14:025:005 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

14:025:006 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

14:025:007 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.

14:025:008 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

14:025:009 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

14:025:010 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

14:025:011 And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.

14:025:012 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.

14:025:013 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

14:025:014 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

14:025:015 Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?

14:025:016 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.

14:025:017 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.

14:025:018 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

14:025:019 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

14:025:020 But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.

14:025:021 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

14:025:022 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.

14:025:023 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

14:025:024 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

14:025:025 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

14:025:026 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

14:025:027 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.

14:025:028 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

14:026:001 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

14:026:002 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

14:026:003 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

14:026:004 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

14:026:005 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.

14:026:006 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

14:026:007 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

14:026:008 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.

14:026:009 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

14:026:010 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

14:026:011 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

14:026:012 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.

14:026:013 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

14:026:014 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.

14:026:015 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

14:026:016 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

14:026:017 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:

14:026:018 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.

14:026:019 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.

14:026:020 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.

14:026:021 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

14:026:022 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.

14:026:023 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

14:027:001 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

14:027:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

14:027:003 He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

14:027:004 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

14:027:005 He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

14:027:006 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

14:027:007 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

14:027:008 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

14:027:009 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

14:028:001 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:

14:028:002 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

14:028:003 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

14:028:004 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

14:028:005 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

14:028:006 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers.

14:028:007 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.

14:028:008 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

14:028:009 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.

14:028:010 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

14:028:011 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.

14:028:012 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,

14:028:013 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.

14:028:014 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.

14:028:015 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

14:028:016 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.

14:028:017 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.

14:028:018 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

14:028:019 For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD.

14:028:020 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

14:028:021 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.

14:028:022 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

14:028:023 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

14:028:024 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

14:028:025 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

14:028:026 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

14:028:027 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

14:029:001 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

14:029:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

14:029:003 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

14:029:004 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

14:029:005 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

14:029:006 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.

14:029:007 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

14:029:008 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

14:029:009 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

14:029:010 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

14:029:011 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.

14:029:012 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:

14:029:013 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:

14:029:014 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.

14:029:015 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.

14:029:016 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

14:029:017 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

14:029:018 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.

14:029:019 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.

14:029:020 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

14:029:021 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.

14:029:022 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

14:029:023 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:

14:029:024 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

14:029:025 And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

14:029:026 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

14:029:027 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.

14:029:028 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

14:029:029 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

14:029:030 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.

14:029:031 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.

14:029:032 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

14:029:033 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

14:029:034 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

14:029:035 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.

14:029:036 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

14:030:001 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.

14:030:002 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

14:030:003 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

14:030:004 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

14:030:005 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.

14:030:006 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

14:030:007 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

14:030:008 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

14:030:009 For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

14:030:010 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

14:030:011 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

14:030:012 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

14:030:013 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

14:030:014 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

14:030:015 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.

14:030:016 And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

14:030:017 For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.

14:030:018 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

14:030:019 That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

14:030:020 And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

14:030:021 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.

14:030:022 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.

14:030:023 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

14:030:024 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

14:030:025 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

14:030:026 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

14:030:027 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

14:031:001 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

14:031:002 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

14:031:003 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.

14:031:004 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.

14:031:005 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

14:031:006 And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the LORD their God, and laid them by heaps.

14:031:007 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

14:031:008 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.

14:031:009 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

14:031:010 And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

14:031:011 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,

14:031:012 And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.

14:031:013 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

14:031:014 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.

14:031:015 And next him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set office, to give to their brethren by courses, as well to the great as to the small:

14:031:016 Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;

14:031:017 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

14:031:018 And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

14:031:019 Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

14:031:020 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

14:031:021 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

14:032:001 After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

14:032:002 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

14:032:003 He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.

14:032:004 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

14:032:005 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

14:032:006 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

14:032:007 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:

14:032:008 With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

14:032:009 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,

14:032:010 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?

14:032:011 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

14:032:012 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

14:032:013 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

14:032:014 Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

14:032:015 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

14:032:016 And his servants spake yet more against the LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

14:032:017 He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.

14:032:018 Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

14:032:019 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.

14:032:020 And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

14:032:021 And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

14:032:022 Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.

14:032:023 And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

14:032:024 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.

14:032:025 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

14:032:026 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

14:032:027 And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;

14:032:028 Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

14:032:029 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

14:032:030 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

14:032:031 Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

14:032:032 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

14:032:033 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

14:033:001 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

14:033:002 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

14:033:003 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

14:033:004 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

14:033:005 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

14:033:006 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

14:033:007 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

14:033:008 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

14:033:009 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

14:033:010 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

14:033:011 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

14:033:012 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

14:033:013 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

14:033:014 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

14:033:015 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

14:033:016 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

14:033:017 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

14:033:018 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.

14:033:019 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

14:033:020 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

14:033:021 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

14:033:022 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

14:033:023 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

14:033:024 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

14:033:025 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

14:034:001 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.

14:034:002 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

14:034:003 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

14:034:004 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

14:034:005 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

14:034:006 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

14:034:007 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

14:034:008 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

14:034:009 And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

14:034:010 And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:

14:034:011 Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

14:034:012 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and other of the Levites, all that could skill of instruments of musick.

14:034:013 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and were overseers of all that wrought the work in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.

14:034:014 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.

14:034:015 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

14:034:016 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.

14:034:017 And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

14:034:018 Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

14:034:019 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.

14:034:020 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,

14:034:021 Go, enquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.

14:034:022 And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

14:034:023 And she answered them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

14:034:024 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

14:034:025 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

14:034:026 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

14:034:027 Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

14:034:028 Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

14:034:029 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

14:034:030 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

14:034:031 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

14:034:032 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

14:034:033 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

14:035:001 Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

14:035:002 And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,

14:035:003 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,

14:035:004 And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

14:035:005 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

14:035:006 So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

14:035:007 And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

14:035:008 And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.

14:035:009 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

14:035:010 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.

14:035:011 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

14:035:012 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

14:035:013 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.

14:035:014 And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

14:035:015 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

14:035:016 So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

14:035:017 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

14:035:018 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

14:035:019 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

14:035:020 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

14:035:021 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.

14:035:022 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

14:035:023 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

14:035:024 His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

14:035:025 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

14:035:026 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD,

14:035:027 And his deeds, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

14:036:001 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

14:036:002 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

14:036:003 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

14:036:004 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

14:036:005 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

14:036:006 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

14:036:007 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

14:036:008 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

14:036:009 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

14:036:010 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

14:036:011 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

14:036:012 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

14:036:013 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

14:036:014 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

14:036:015 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

14:036:016 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

14:036:017 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

14:036:018 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.

14:036:019 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

14:036:020 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

14:036:021 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

14:036:022 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

14:036:023 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.

Book 15 Ezra

15:001:001 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

15:001:002 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

15:001:003 Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.

15:001:004 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

15:001:005 Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

15:001:006 And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

15:001:007 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;

15:001:008 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

15:001:009 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

15:001:010 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

15:001:011 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

15:002:001 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

15:002:002 Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

15:002:003 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

15:002:004 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

15:002:005 The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.

15:002:006 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

15:002:007 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

15:002:008 The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.

15:002:009 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

15:002:010 The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.

15:002:011 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.

15:002:012 The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.

15:002:013 The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty and six.

15:002:014 The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.

15:002:015 The children of Adin, four hundred fifty and four.

15:002:016 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.

15:002:017 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.

15:002:018 The children of Jorah, an hundred and twelve.

15:002:019 The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.

15:002:020 The children of Gibbar, ninety and five.

15:002:021 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.

15:002:022 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

15:002:023 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.

15:002:024 The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.

15:002:025 The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.

15:002:026 The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.

15:002:027 The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.

15:002:028 The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

15:002:029 The children of Nebo, fifty and two.

15:002:030 The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.

15:002:031 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

15:002:032 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

15:002:033 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.

15:002:034 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

15:002:035 The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.

15:002:036 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

15:002:037 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

15:002:038 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.

15:002:039 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

15:002:040 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

15:002:041 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight.

15:002:042 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.

15:002:043 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

15:002:044 The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

15:002:045 The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,

15:002:046 The children of Hagab, the children of Shalmai, the children of Hanan,

15:002:047 The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

15:002:048 The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,

15:002:049 The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,

15:002:050 The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,

15:002:051 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

15:002:052 The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

15:002:053 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,

15:002:054 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

15:002:055 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,

15:002:056 The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

15:002:057 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.

15:002:058 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

15:002:059 And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

15:002:060 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

15:002:061 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

15:002:062 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

15:002:063 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

15:002:064 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

15:002:065 Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

15:002:066 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

15:002:067 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

15:002:068 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

15:002:069 They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.

15:002:070 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

15:003:001 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

15:003:002 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

15:003:003 And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

15:003:004 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

15:003:005 And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.

15:003:006 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.

15:003:007 They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

15:003:008 Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.

15:003:009 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together, to set forward the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.

15:003:010 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.

15:003:011 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

15:003:012 But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

15:003:013 So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

15:004:001 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel;

15:004:002 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

15:004:003 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

15:004:004 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

15:004:005 And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

15:004:006 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

15:004:007 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

15:004:008 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:

15:004:009 Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,

15:004:010 And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnapper brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.

15:004:011 This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

15:004:012 Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

15:004:013 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.

15:004:014 Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

15:004:015 That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.

15:004:016 We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

15:004:017 Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time.

15:004:018 The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.

15:004:019 And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.

15:004:020 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, which have ruled over all countries beyond the river; and toll, tribute, and custom, was paid unto them.

15:004:021 Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.

15:004:022 Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

15:004:023 Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

15:004:024 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

15:005:001 Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them.

15:005:002 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them.

15:005:003 At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and their companions, and said thus unto them, Who hath commanded you to build this house, and to make up this wall?

15:005:004 Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?

15:005:005 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, that they could not cause them to cease, till the matter came to Darius: and then they returned answer by letter concerning this matter.

15:005:006 The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:

15:005:007 They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.

15:005:008 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

15:005:009 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?

15:005:010 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

15:005:011 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.

15:005:012 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

15:005:013 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.

15:005:014 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

15:005:015 And said unto him, Take these vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be builded in his place.

15:005:016 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundation of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not finished.

15:005:017 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

15:006:001 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

15:006:002 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

15:006:003 In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

15:006:004 With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:

15:006:005 And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.

15:006:006 Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shetharboznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:

15:006:007 Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.

15:006:008 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.

15:006:009 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

15:006:010 That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

15:006:011 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

15:006:012 And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed.

15:006:013 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.

15:006:014 And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

15:006:015 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

15:006:016 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

15:006:017 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

15:006:018 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

15:006:019 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

15:006:020 For the priests and the Levites were purified together, all of them were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

15:006:021 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

15:006:022 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

15:007:001 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

15:007:002 The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

15:007:003 The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

15:007:004 The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

15:007:005 The son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest:

15:007:006 This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

15:007:007 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

15:007:008 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

15:007:009 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.

15:007:010 For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

15:007:011 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.

15:007:012 Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.

15:007:013 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

15:007:014 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;

15:007:015 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

15:007:016 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem:

15:007:017 That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

15:007:018 And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.

15:007:019 The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

15:007:020 And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure house.

15:007:021 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

15:007:022 Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

15:007:023 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be diligently done for the house of the God of heaven: for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

15:007:024 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.

15:007:025 And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

15:007:026 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

15:007:027 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:

15:007:028 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

15:008:001 These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

15:008:002 Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.

15:008:003 Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.

15:008:004 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

15:008:005 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.

15:008:006 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.

15:008:007 And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.

15:008:008 And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.

15:008:009 Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

15:008:010 And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.

15:008:011 And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.

15:008:012 And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.

15:008:013 And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.

15:008:014 Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.

15:008:015 And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

15:008:016 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

15:008:017 And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

15:008:018 And by the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

15:008:019 And Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

15:008:020 Also of the Nethinims, whom David and the princes had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name.

15:008:021 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

15:008:022 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

15:008:023 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.

15:008:024 Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

15:008:025 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

15:008:026 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;

15:008:027 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.

15:008:028 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.

15:008:029 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the LORD.

15:008:030 So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

15:008:031 Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.

15:008:032 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

15:008:033 Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

15:008:034 By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

15:008:035 Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the LORD.

15:008:036 And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.

15:009:001 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

15:009:002 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

15:009:003 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

15:009:004 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

15:009:005 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,

15:009:006 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

15:009:007 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

15:009:008 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

15:009:009 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

15:009:010 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

15:009:011 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

15:009:012 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

15:009:013 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

15:009:014 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

15:009:015 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

15:010:001 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.

15:010:002 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

15:010:003 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

15:010:004 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

15:010:005 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.

15:010:006 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

15:010:007 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

15:010:008 And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.

15:010:009 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

15:010:010 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

15:010:011 Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

15:010:012 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.

15:010:013 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

15:010:014 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

15:010:015 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

15:010:016 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

15:010:017 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

15:010:018 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

15:010:019 And they gave their hands that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their trespass.

15:010:020 And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

15:010:021 And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

15:010:022 And of the sons of Pashur; Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethaneel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

15:010:023 Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

15:010:024 Of the singers also; Eliashib: and of the porters; Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

15:010:025 Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

15:010:026 And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.

15:010:027 And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.

15:010:028 Of the sons also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.

15:010:029 And of the sons of Bani; Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, and Ramoth.

15:010:030 And of the sons of Pahathmoab; Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

15:010:031 And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

15:010:032 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.

15:010:033 Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

15:010:034 Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

15:010:035 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,

15:010:036 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,

15:010:037 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,

15:010:038 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,

15:010:039 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,

15:010:040 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

15:010:041 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,

15:010:042 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.

15:010:043 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.

15:010:044 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

Book 16 Nehemiah

16:001:001 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

16:001:002 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

16:001:003 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

16:001:004 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

16:001:005 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

16:001:006 Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.

16:001:007 We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

16:001:008 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

16:001:009 But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

16:001:010 Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.

16:001:011 O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

16:002:001 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

16:002:002 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

16:002:003 And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

16:002:004 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

16:002:005 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.

16:002:006 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

16:002:007 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;

16:002:008 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

16:002:009 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

16:002:010 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

16:002:011 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

16:002:012 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

16:002:013 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

16:002:014 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

16:002:015 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

16:002:016 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

16:002:017 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

16:002:018 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king's words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

16:002:019 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

16:002:020 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.

16:003:001 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

16:003:002 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.

16:003:003 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

16:003:004 And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.

16:003:005 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.

16:003:006 Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

16:003:007 And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

16:003:008 Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.

16:003:009 And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.

16:003:010 And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.

16:003:011 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahathmoab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.

16:003:012 And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.

16:003:013 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.

16:003:014 But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Bethhaccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

16:003:015 But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

16:003:016 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.

16:003:017 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.

16:003:018 After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.

16:003:019 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning of the wall.

16:003:020 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

16:003:021 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.

16:003:022 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.

16:003:023 After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.

16:003:024 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another piece, from the house of Azariah unto the turning of the wall, even unto the corner.

16:003:025 Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

16:003:026 Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that lieth out.

16:003:027 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.

16:003:028 From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.

16:003:029 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.

16:003:030 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another piece. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

16:003:031 After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.

16:003:032 And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

16:004:001 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

16:004:002 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

16:004:003 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

16:004:004 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

16:004:005 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

16:004:006 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

16:004:007 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

16:004:008 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

16:004:009 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.

16:004:010 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

16:004:011 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

16:004:012 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

16:004:013 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

16:004:014 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

16:004:015 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

16:004:016 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

16:004:017 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

16:004:018 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

16:004:019 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.

16:004:020 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

16:004:021 So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

16:004:022 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day.

16:004:023 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.

16:005:001 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

16:005:002 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

16:005:003 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

16:005:004 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

16:005:005 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

16:005:006 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

16:005:007 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

16:005:008 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

16:005:009 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

16:005:010 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.

16:005:011 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

16:005:012 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

16:005:013 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

16:005:014 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

16:005:015 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

16:005:016 Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

16:005:017 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.

16:005:018 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

16:005:019 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

16:006:001 Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

16:006:002 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

16:006:003 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

16:006:004 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

16:006:005 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

16:006:006 Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.

16:006:007 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

16:006:008 Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

16:006:009 For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

16:006:010 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

16:006:011 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

16:006:012 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

16:006:013 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

16:006:014 My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.

16:006:015 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

16:006:016 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

16:006:017 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

16:006:018 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son in law of Shechaniah the son of Arah; and his son Johanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

16:006:019 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

16:007:001 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

16:007:002 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

16:007:003 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

16:007:004 Now the city was large and great: but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.

16:007:005 And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

16:007:006 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;

16:007:007 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;

16:007:008 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

16:007:009 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

16:007:010 The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.

16:007:011 The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.

16:007:012 The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

16:007:013 The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.

16:007:014 The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

16:007:015 The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.

16:007:016 The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.

16:007:017 The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.

16:007:018 The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.

16:007:019 The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.

16:007:020 The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.

16:007:021 The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.

16:007:022 The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.

16:007:023 The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.

16:007:024 The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.

16:007:025 The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.

16:007:026 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.

16:007:027 The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.

16:007:028 The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.

16:007:029 The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.

16:007:030 The men of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.

16:007:031 The men of Michmas, an hundred and twenty and two.

16:007:032 The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.

16:007:033 The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

16:007:034 The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

16:007:035 The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

16:007:036 The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

16:007:037 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.

16:007:038 The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.

16:007:039 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

16:007:040 The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

16:007:041 The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.

16:007:042 The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

16:007:043 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, and of the children of Hodevah, seventy and four.

16:007:044 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.

16:007:045 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.

16:007:046 The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

16:007:047 The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,

16:007:048 The children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Shalmai,

16:007:049 The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,

16:007:050 The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

16:007:051 The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,

16:007:052 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,

16:007:053 The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,

16:007:054 The children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,

16:007:055 The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,

16:007:056 The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

16:007:057 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

16:007:058 The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

16:007:059 The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.

16:007:060 All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

16:007:061 And these were they which went up also from Telmelah, Telharesha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.

16:007:062 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

16:007:063 And of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was called after their name.

16:007:064 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

16:007:065 And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

16:007:066 The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

16:007:067 Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

16:007:068 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:

16:007:069 Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.

16:007:070 And some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.

16:007:071 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.

16:007:072 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments.

16:007:073 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

16:008:001 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.

16:008:002 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

16:008:003 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

16:008:004 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

16:008:005 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:

16:008:006 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

16:008:007 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

16:008:008 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

16:008:009 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

16:008:010 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

16:008:011 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.

16:008:012 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

16:008:013 And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.

16:008:014 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

16:008:015 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.

16:008:016 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

16:008:017 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.

16:008:018 Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

16:009:001 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

16:009:002 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

16:009:003 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.

16:009:004 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.

16:009:005 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

16:009:006 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

16:009:007 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;

16:009:008 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:

16:009:009 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;

16:009:010 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

16:009:011 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

16:009:012 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

16:009:013 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

16:009:014 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

16:009:015 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

16:009:016 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

16:009:017 And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

16:009:018 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

16:009:019 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

16:009:020 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

16:009:021 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

16:009:022 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

16:009:023 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

16:009:024 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

16:009:025 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

16:009:026 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

16:009:027 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

16:009:028 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

16:009:029 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

16:009:030 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.

16:009:031 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

16:009:032 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

16:009:033 Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

16:009:034 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

16:009:035 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

16:009:036 Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

16:009:037 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

16:009:038 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

16:010:001 Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

16:010:002 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

16:010:003 Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah,

16:010:004 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,

16:010:005 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

16:010:006 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

16:010:007 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

16:010:008 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah: these were the priests.

16:010:009 And the Levites: both Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

16:010:010 And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

16:010:011 Micha, Rehob, Hashabiah,

16:010:012 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

16:010:013 Hodijah, Bani, Beninu.

16:010:014 The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahathmoab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

16:010:015 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

16:010:016 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

16:010:017 Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur,

16:010:018 Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,

16:010:019 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

16:010:020 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

16:010:021 Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,

16:010:022 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

16:010:023 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,

16:010:024 Hallohesh, Pileha, Shobek,

16:010:025 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,

16:010:026 And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

16:010:027 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

16:010:028 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

16:010:029 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

16:010:030 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, not take their daughters for our sons:

16:010:031 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

16:010:032 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

16:010:033 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

16:010:034 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

16:010:035 And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

16:010:036 Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:

16:010:037 And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

16:010:038 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

16:010:039 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

16:011:001 And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.

16:011:002 And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.

16:011:003 Now these are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.

16:011:004 And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;

16:011:005 And Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.

16:011:006 All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.

16:011:007 And these are the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jesaiah.

16:011:008 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.

16:011:009 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.

16:011:010 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.

16:011:011 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.

16:011:012 And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah.

16:011:013 And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

16:011:014 And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.

16:011:015 Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;

16:011:016 And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.

16:011:017 And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

16:011:018 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.

16:011:019 Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.

16:011:020 And the residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance.

16:011:021 But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.

16:011:022 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.

16:011:023 For it was the king's commandment concerning them, that a certain portion should be for the singers, due for every day.

16:011:024 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabeel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.

16:011:025 And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,

16:011:026 And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet,

16:011:027 And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof,

16:011:028 And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah, and in the villages thereof,

16:011:029 And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,

16:011:030 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

16:011:031 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.

16:011:032 And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,

16:011:033 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,

16:011:034 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,

16:011:035 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

16:011:036 And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.

16:012:001 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

16:012:002 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

16:012:003 Shechaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,

16:012:004 Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,

16:012:005 Miamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,

16:012:006 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah,

16:012:007 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

16:012:008 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.

16:012:009 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.

16:012:010 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

16:012:011 And Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.

16:012:012 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

16:012:013 Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

16:012:014 Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

16:012:015 Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

16:012:016 Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;

16:012:017 Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai:

16:012:018 Of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

16:012:019 And of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

16:012:020 Of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

16:012:021 Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.

16:012:022 The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.

16:012:023 The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

16:012:024 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.

16:012:025 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

16:012:026 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

16:012:027 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

16:012:028 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;

16:012:029 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

16:012:030 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

16:012:031 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:

16:012:032 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,

16:012:033 And Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

16:012:034 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,

16:012:035 And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:

16:012:036 And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarael, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before them.

16:012:037 And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

16:012:038 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;

16:012:039 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

16:012:040 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:

16:012:041 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

16:012:042 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

16:012:043 Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

16:012:044 And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

16:012:045 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

16:012:046 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

16:012:047 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.

16:013:001 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

16:013:002 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

16:013:003 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

16:013:004 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:

16:013:005 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.

16:013:006 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:

16:013:007 And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

16:013:008 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff to Tobiah out of the chamber.

16:013:009 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.

16:013:010 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.

16:013:011 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

16:013:012 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.

16:013:013 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

16:013:014 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

16:013:015 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

16:013:016 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

16:013:017 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

16:013:018 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

16:013:019 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

16:013:020 So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

16:013:021 Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

16:013:022 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

16:013:023 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

16:013:024 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

16:013:025 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

16:013:026 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

16:013:027 Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

16:013:028 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

16:013:029 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

16:013:030 Thus cleansed I them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;

16:013:031 And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

Book 17 Esther

17:001:001 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

17:001:002 That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

17:001:003 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:

17:001:004 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

17:001:005 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;

17:001:006 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

17:001:007 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.

17:001:008 And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

17:001:009 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

17:001:010 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

17:001:011 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

17:001:012 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.

17:001:013 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

17:001:014 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)

17:001:015 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

17:001:016 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

17:001:017 For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

17:001:018 Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.

17:001:019 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

17:001:020 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

17:001:021 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

17:001:022 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.

17:002:001 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

17:002:002 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

17:002:003 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

17:002:004 And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

17:002:005 Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

17:002:006 Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

17:002:007 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

17:002:008 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

17:002:009 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

17:002:010 Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

17:002:011 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

17:002:012 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

17:002:013 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

17:002:014 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

17:002:015 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

17:002:016 So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

17:002:017 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

17:002:018 Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

17:002:019 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

17:002:020 Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

17:002:021 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

17:002:022 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.

17:002:023 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

17:003:001 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

17:003:002 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.

17:003:003 Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

17:003:004 Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

17:003:005 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.

17:003:006 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

17:003:007 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

17:003:008 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

17:003:009 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

17:003:010 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

17:003:011 And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

17:003:012 Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.

17:003:013 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

17:003:014 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

17:003:015 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

17:004:001 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

17:004:002 And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

17:004:003 And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

17:004:004 So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

17:004:005 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

17:004:006 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.

17:004:007 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

17:004:008 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

17:004:009 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

17:004:010 Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;

17:004:011 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

17:004:012 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.

17:004:013 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

17:004:014 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

17:004:015 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

17:004:016 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

17:004:017 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

17:005:001 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

17:005:002 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

17:005:003 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.

17:005:004 And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

17:005:005 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

17:005:006 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

17:005:007 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;

17:005:008 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

17:005:009 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.

17:005:010 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

17:005:011 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

17:005:012 Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.

17:005:013 Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

17:005:014 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

17:006:001 On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

17:006:002 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

17:006:003 And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.

17:006:004 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

17:006:005 And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.

17:006:006 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

17:006:007 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

17:006:008 Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:

17:006:009 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

17:006:010 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

17:006:011 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

17:006:012 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

17:006:013 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

17:006:014 And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

17:007:001 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

17:007:002 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.

17:007:003 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

17:007:004 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

17:007:005 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

17:007:006 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

17:007:007 And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

17:007:008 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

17:007:009 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

17:007:010 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

17:008:001 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.

17:008:002 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

17:008:003 And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

17:008:004 Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,

17:008:005 And said, If it please the king, and if I have favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:

17:008:006 For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

17:008:007 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

17:008:008 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

17:008:009 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

17:008:010 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

17:008:011 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

17:008:012 Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

17:008:013 The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

17:008:014 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.

17:008:015 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

17:008:016 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.

17:008:017 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

17:009:001 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

17:009:002 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

17:009:003 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

17:009:004 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

17:009:005 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

17:009:006 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

17:009:007 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

17:009:008 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

17:009:009 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

17:009:010 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.

17:009:011 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.

17:009:012 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

17:009:013 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

17:009:014 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

17:009:015 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.

17:009:016 But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

17:009:017 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

17:009:018 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

17:009:019 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

17:009:020 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

17:009:021 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

17:009:022 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

17:009:023 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

17:009:024 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

17:009:025 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

17:009:026 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,

17:009:027 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

17:009:028 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

17:009:029 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

17:009:030 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

17:009:031 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

17:009:032 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

17:010:001 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

17:010:002 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

17:010:003 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

Book 18 Job

18:001:001 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

18:001:002 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

18:001:003 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

18:001:004 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

18:001:005 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

18:001:006 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

18:001:007 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:001:008 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

18:001:009 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

18:001:010 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

18:001:011 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

18:001:012 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

18:001:013 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

18:001:014 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

18:001:015 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:016 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:017 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:018 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

18:001:019 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18:001:020 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

18:001:021 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

18:001:022 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

18:002:001 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

18:002:002 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

18:002:003 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

18:002:004 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

18:002:005 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

18:002:006 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

18:002:007 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

18:002:008 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

18:002:009 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

18:002:010 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

18:002:011 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

18:002:012 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

18:002:013 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

18:003:001 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

18:003:002 And Job spake, and said,

18:003:003 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

18:003:004 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

18:003:005 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

18:003:006 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

18:003:007 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

18:003:008 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

18:003:009 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

18:003:010 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

18:003:011 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

18:003:012 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

18:003:013 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

18:003:014 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

18:003:015 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

18:003:016 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

18:003:017 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18:003:018 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

18:003:019 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

18:003:020 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

18:003:021 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

18:003:022 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

18:003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

18:003:024 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

18:003:025 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

18:003:026 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

18:004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:004:002 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

18:004:003 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

18:004:004 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

18:004:005 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

18:004:006 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

18:004:007 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

18:004:008 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

18:004:009 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

18:004:010 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

18:004:011 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

18:004:012 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

18:004:013 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

18:004:014 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

18:004:015 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

18:004:016 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

18:004:017 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

18:004:018 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

18:004:019 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

18:004:020 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

18:004:021 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

18:005:001 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

18:005:002 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

18:005:003 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

18:005:004 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

18:005:005 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

18:005:006 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

18:005:007 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

18:005:008 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

18:005:009 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

18:005:010 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

18:005:011 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

18:005:012 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

18:005:013 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

18:005:014 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

18:005:015 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

18:005:016 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

18:005:017 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18:005:018 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

18:005:019 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

18:005:020 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

18:005:021 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

18:005:022 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

18:005:023 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

18:005:024 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

18:005:025 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

18:005:026 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

18:005:027 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

18:006:001 But Job answered and said,

18:006:002 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

18:006:003 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

18:006:004 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

18:006:005 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

18:006:006 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

18:006:007 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

18:006:008 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

18:006:009 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

18:006:010 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

18:006:011 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

18:006:012 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?

18:006:013 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

18:006:014 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

18:006:015 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

18:006:016 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

18:006:017 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

18:006:018 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

18:006:019 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

18:006:020 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

18:006:021 For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

18:006:022 Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

18:006:023 Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?

18:006:024 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

18:006:025 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

18:006:026 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

18:006:027 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

18:006:028 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

18:006:029 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

18:006:030 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

18:007:001 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

18:007:002 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

18:007:003 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

18:007:004 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

18:007:005 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

18:007:006 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

18:007:007 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

18:007:008 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

18:007:009 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

18:007:010 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

18:007:011 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

18:007:012 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

18:007:013 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

18:007:014 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

18:007:015 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

18:007:016 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

18:007:017 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

18:007:018 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

18:007:019 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

18:007:020 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

18:007:021 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

18:008:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:008:002 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

18:008:003 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

18:008:004 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

18:008:005 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

18:008:006 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

18:008:007 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

18:008:008 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

18:008:009 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

18:008:010 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

18:008:011 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

18:008:012 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

18:008:013 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:

18:008:014 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

18:008:015 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

18:008:016 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

18:008:017 His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

18:008:018 If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.

18:008:019 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

18:008:020 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

18:008:021 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

18:008:022 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

18:009:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:009:002 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

18:009:003 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

18:009:004 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

18:009:005 Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

18:009:006 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

18:009:007 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

18:009:008 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

18:009:009 Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

18:009:010 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.

18:009:011 Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

18:009:012 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

18:009:013 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

18:009:014 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

18:009:015 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

18:009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

18:009:026 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

18:009:027 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

18:009:028 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

18:009:029 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

18:009:030 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

18:009:031 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

18:009:032 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

18:009:033 Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

18:009:034 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

18:009:035 Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

18:010:001 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

18:010:002 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

18:010:003 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

18:010:004 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

18:010:005 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

18:010:006 That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

18:010:007 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

18:010:008 Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

18:010:009 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

18:010:010 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

18:010:011 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

18:010:012 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

18:010:013 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

18:010:014 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

18:010:015 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

18:010:016 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

18:010:017 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

18:010:018 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

18:010:019 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

18:010:020 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

18:010:021 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

18:010:022 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

18:011:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:011:002 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

18:011:003 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

18:011:004 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

18:011:005 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

18:011:006 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

18:011:007 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

18:011:008 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

18:011:009 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

18:011:010 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

18:011:011 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

18:011:012 For vain men would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

18:011:013 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

18:011:014 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

18:011:015 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

18:011:016 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

18:011:017 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

18:011:018 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

18:011:019 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.

18:011:020 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

18:012:001 And Job answered and said,

18:012:002 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

18:012:003 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

18:012:004 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

18:012:005 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

18:012:006 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

18:012:007 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

18:012:008 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

18:012:009 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

18:012:010 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

18:012:011 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

18:012:012 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

18:012:013 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

18:012:014 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

18:012:015 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

18:012:016 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

18:012:017 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

18:012:018 He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

18:012:019 He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

18:012:020 He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

18:012:021 He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

18:012:022 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

18:012:023 He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

18:012:024 He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

18:012:025 They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

18:013:001 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

18:013:002 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

18:013:003 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

18:013:004 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

18:013:005 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

18:013:006 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

18:013:007 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

18:013:008 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

18:013:009 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

18:013:010 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

18:013:011 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

18:013:012 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

18:013:013 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

18:013:014 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

18:013:015 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

18:013:016 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

18:013:017 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

18:013:018 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

18:013:019 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

18:013:020 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

18:013:021 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

18:013:022 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

18:013:023 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

18:013:024 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

18:013:025 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

18:013:026 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

18:013:027 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

18:013:028 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

18:014:001 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

18:014:002 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

18:014:003 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

18:014:004 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

18:014:005 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

18:014:006 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

18:014:007 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

18:014:008 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

18:014:009 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

18:014:010 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

18:014:011 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

18:014:012 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

18:014:013 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

18:014:014 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

18:014:015 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

18:014:016 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

18:014:017 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

18:014:018 And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

18:014:019 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

18:014:020 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

18:014:021 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

18:014:022 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

18:015:001 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

18:015:002 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

18:015:003 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

18:015:004 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

18:015:005 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

18:015:006 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

18:015:007 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

18:015:008 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

18:015:009 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

18:015:010 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

18:015:011 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

18:015:012 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

18:015:013 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

18:015:014 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

18:015:015 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

18:015:016 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

18:015:017 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

18:015:018 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

18:015:019 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

18:015:020 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

18:015:021 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

18:015:022 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

18:015:023 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

18:015:024 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

18:015:025 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

18:015:026 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

18:015:027 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

18:015:028 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

18:015:029 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

18:015:030 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

18:015:031 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

18:015:032 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

18:015:033 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

18:015:034 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

18:015:035 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

18:016:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:016:002 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

18:016:003 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

18:016:004 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

18:016:005 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

18:016:006 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

18:016:007 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

18:016:008 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

18:016:009 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

18:016:010 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

18:016:011 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

18:016:012 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

18:016:013 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

18:016:014 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

18:016:015 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

18:016:016 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

18:016:017 Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

18:016:018 O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

18:016:019 Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

18:016:020 My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

18:016:021 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

18:016:022 When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

18:017:001 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

18:017:002 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

18:017:003 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

18:017:004 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

18:017:005 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

18:017:006 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

18:017:007 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

18:017:008 Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

18:017:009 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

18:017:010 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

18:017:011 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

18:017:012 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

18:017:013 If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

18:017:014 I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

18:017:015 And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

18:017:016 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

18:018:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:018:002 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

18:018:003 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

18:018:004 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

18:018:005 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

18:018:006 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

18:018:007 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

18:018:008 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

18:018:009 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

18:018:010 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

18:018:011 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

18:018:012 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

18:018:013 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

18:018:014 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

18:018:015 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

18:018:016 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

18:018:017 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

18:018:018 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

18:018:019 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

18:018:020 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

18:018:021 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

18:019:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:019:002 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

18:019:003 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

18:019:004 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

18:019:005 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

18:019:006 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

18:019:007 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

18:019:008 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

18:019:009 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

18:019:010 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

18:019:011 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

18:019:012 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

18:019:013 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

18:019:014 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

18:019:015 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

18:019:016 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

18:019:017 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

18:019:018 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

18:019:019 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

18:019:020 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

18:019:021 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

18:019:022 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

18:019:023 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

18:019:024 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

18:019:025 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

18:019:026 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

18:019:027 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

18:019:028 But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

18:019:029 Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

18:020:001 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

18:020:002 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

18:020:003 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

18:020:004 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

18:020:005 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

18:020:006 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

18:020:007 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

18:020:008 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

18:020:009 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

18:020:010 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

18:020:011 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

18:020:012 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

18:020:013 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

18:020:014 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

18:020:015 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

18:020:016 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

18:020:017 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

18:020:018 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

18:020:019 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

18:020:020 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

18:020:021 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

18:020:022 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

18:020:023 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

18:020:024 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

18:020:025 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

18:020:026 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

18:020:027 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

18:020:028 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

18:020:029 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

18:021:001 But Job answered and said,

18:021:002 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

18:021:003 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

18:021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

18:021:005 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

18:021:006 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

18:021:007 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

18:021:008 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

18:021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

18:021:010 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

18:021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

18:021:012 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

18:021:013 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

18:021:014 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

18:021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

18:021:016 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

18:021:017 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

18:021:018 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

18:021:019 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

18:021:020 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

18:021:021 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

18:021:022 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

18:021:023 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

18:021:024 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

18:021:025 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

18:021:026 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

18:021:027 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

18:021:028 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

18:021:029 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

18:021:030 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

18:021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

18:021:032 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

18:021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

18:021:034 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

18:022:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:022:002 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

18:022:003 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

18:022:004 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?

18:022:005 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

18:022:006 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

18:022:007 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

18:022:008 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

18:022:009 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

18:022:010 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

18:022:011 Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

18:022:012 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

18:022:013 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

18:022:014 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

18:022:015 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

18:022:016 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

18:022:017 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

18:022:018 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

18:022:019 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

18:022:020 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

18:022:021 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

18:022:022 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

18:022:023 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

18:022:024 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

18:022:025 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

18:022:026 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

18:022:027 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

18:022:028 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

18:022:029 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

18:022:030 He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.

18:023:001 Then Job answered and said,

18:023:002 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

18:023:003 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

18:023:004 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

18:023:005 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

18:023:006 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

18:023:007 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

18:023:008 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

18:023:009 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

18:023:010 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

18:023:011 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

18:023:012 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

18:023:013 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

18:023:014 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

18:023:015 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

18:023:016 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

18:023:017 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

18:024:001 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

18:024:002 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

18:024:003 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

18:024:004 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

18:024:005 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

18:024:006 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

18:024:007 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

18:024:008 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

18:024:009 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

18:024:010 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

18:024:011 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

18:024:012 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

18:024:013 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

18:024:014 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

18:024:015 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

18:024:016 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

18:024:017 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

18:024:018 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

18:024:019 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

18:024:020 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

18:024:021 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

18:024:022 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

18:024:023 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

18:024:024 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

18:024:025 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

18:025:001 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:025:002 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.

18:025:003 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

18:025:004 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

18:025:005 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

18:025:006 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

18:026:001 But Job answered and said,

18:026:002 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

18:026:003 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

18:026:004 To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

18:026:005 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

18:026:006 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

18:026:007 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

18:026:008 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

18:026:009 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

18:026:010 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

18:026:011 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

18:026:012 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

18:026:013 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

18:026:014 Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

18:027:001 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

18:027:002 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

18:027:003 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

18:027:004 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

18:027:005 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

18:027:006 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

18:027:007 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

18:027:008 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

18:027:009 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

18:027:010 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

18:027:011 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

18:027:012 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

18:027:013 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

18:027:014 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

18:027:015 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

18:027:016 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

18:027:017 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

18:027:018 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

18:027:019 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

18:027:020 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

18:027:021 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

18:027:022 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

18:027:023 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

18:028:001 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

18:028:002 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

18:028:003 He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

18:028:004 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

18:028:005 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

18:028:006 The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

18:028:007 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

18:028:008 The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

18:028:009 He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

18:028:010 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

18:028:011 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

18:028:012 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

18:028:013 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

18:028:014 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

18:028:015 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

18:028:016 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

18:028:017 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

18:028:018 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.

18:028:019 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

18:028:020 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

18:028:021 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

18:028:022 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

18:028:023 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

18:028:024 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

18:028:025 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

18:028:026 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

18:028:027 Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

18:028:028 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

18:029:001 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

18:029:002 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

18:029:003 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

18:029:004 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

18:029:005 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

18:029:006 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

18:029:007 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

18:029:008 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

18:029:009 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

18:029:010 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

18:029:011 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

18:029:012 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

18:029:013 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

18:029:014 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

18:029:015 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

18:029:016 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

18:029:017 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

18:029:018 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

18:029:019 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

18:029:020 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

18:029:021 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

18:029:022 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

18:029:023 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

18:029:024 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

18:029:025 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

18:030:001 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

18:030:002 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

18:030:003 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

18:030:004 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

18:030:005 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

18:030:006 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

18:030:007 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

18:030:008 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

18:030:009 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

18:030:010 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

18:030:011 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

18:030:012 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

18:030:013 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

18:030:014 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

18:030:015 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

18:030:016 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

18:030:017 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

18:030:018 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

18:030:019 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

18:030:020 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

18:030:021 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

18:030:022 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

18:030:023 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

18:030:024 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

18:030:025 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

18:030:026 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

18:030:027 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

18:030:028 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

18:030:029 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

18:030:030 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

18:030:031 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

18:031:001 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

18:031:002 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

18:031:003 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

18:031:004 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

18:031:005 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

18:031:006 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

18:031:007 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

18:031:008 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

18:031:009 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

18:031:010 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

18:031:011 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

18:031:012 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

18:031:013 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

18:031:014 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

18:031:015 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

18:031:016 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

18:031:017 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

18:031:018 (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

18:031:019 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

18:031:020 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

18:031:021 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

18:031:022 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

18:031:023 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

18:031:024 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

18:031:025 If I rejoice because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

18:031:026 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

18:031:027 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

18:031:028 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

18:031:029 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

18:031:030 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

18:031:031 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

18:031:032 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

18:031:033 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

18:031:034 Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

18:031:035 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

18:031:036 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

18:031:037 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

18:031:038 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

18:031:039 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

18:031:040 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

18:032:001 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

18:032:002 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

18:032:003 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

18:032:004 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

18:032:005 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

18:032:006 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

18:032:007 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

18:032:008 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

18:032:009 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

18:032:010 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.

18:032:011 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

18:032:012 Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

18:032:013 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

18:032:014 Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

18:032:015 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

18:032:016 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

18:032:017 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.

18:032:018 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

18:032:019 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.

18:032:020 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

18:032:021 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

18:032:022 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

18:033:001 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

18:033:002 Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

18:033:003 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

18:033:004 The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

18:033:005 If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

18:033:006 Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

18:033:007 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

18:033:008 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

18:033:009 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

18:033:010 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

18:033:011 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

18:033:012 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

18:033:013 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

18:033:014 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

18:033:015 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

18:033:016 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

18:033:017 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

18:033:018 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

18:033:019 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

18:033:020 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

18:033:021 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

18:033:022 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

18:033:023 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:

18:033:024 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

18:033:025 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:

18:033:026 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

18:033:027 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

18:033:028 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

18:033:029 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

18:033:030 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

18:033:031 Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.

18:033:032 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

18:033:033 If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

18:034:001 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

18:034:002 Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

18:034:003 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

18:034:004 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

18:034:005 For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

18:034:006 Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

18:034:007 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

18:034:008 Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

18:034:009 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

18:034:010 Therefore hearken unto me ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

18:034:011 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

18:034:012 Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

18:034:013 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

18:034:014 If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

18:034:015 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

18:034:016 If now thou hast understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.

18:034:017 Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

18:034:018 Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly?

18:034:019 How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

18:034:020 In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

18:034:021 For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

18:034:022 There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

18:034:023 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

18:034:024 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

18:034:025 Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

18:034:026 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

18:034:027 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

18:034:028 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

18:034:029 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

18:034:030 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

18:034:031 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

18:034:032 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

18:034:033 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

18:034:034 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

18:034:035 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

18:034:036 My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

18:034:037 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

18:035:001 Elihu spake moreover, and said,

18:035:002 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

18:035:003 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

18:035:004 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

18:035:005 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

18:035:006 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

18:035:007 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

18:035:008 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

18:035:009 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

18:035:010 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

18:035:011 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

18:035:012 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

18:035:013 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

18:035:014 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

18:035:015 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

18:035:016 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

18:036:001 Elihu also proceeded, and said,

18:036:002 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

18:036:003 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

18:036:004 For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

18:036:005 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

18:036:006 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

18:036:007 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

18:036:008 And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

18:036:009 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

18:036:010 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

18:036:011 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

18:036:012 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

18:036:013 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

18:036:014 They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

18:036:015 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

18:036:016 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

18:036:017 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

18:036:018 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

18:036:019 Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

18:036:020 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

18:036:021 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

18:036:022 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

18:036:023 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

18:036:024 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

18:036:025 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

18:036:026 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

18:036:027 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

18:036:028 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

18:036:029 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

18:036:030 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

18:036:031 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

18:036:032 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

18:036:033 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

18:037:001 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.

18:037:002 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

18:037:003 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

18:037:004 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

18:037:005 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

18:037:006 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

18:037:007 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

18:037:008 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

18:037:009 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

18:037:010 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

18:037:011 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

18:037:012 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

18:037:013 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

18:037:014 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

18:037:015 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

18:037:016 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

18:037:017 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

18:037:018 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

18:037:019 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

18:037:020 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

18:037:021 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

18:037:022 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.

18:037:023 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

18:037:024 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

18:038:001 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

18:038:002 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

18:038:003 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

18:038:004 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

18:038:005 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

18:038:006 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

18:038:007 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

18:038:008 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

18:038:009 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

18:038:010 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,

18:038:011 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

18:038:012 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

18:038:013 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

18:038:014 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

18:038:015 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

18:038:016 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

18:038:017 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

18:038:018 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

18:038:019 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

18:038:020 That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

18:038:021 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

18:038:022 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

18:038:023 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

18:038:024 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

18:038:025 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

18:038:026 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

18:038:027 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

18:038:028 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

18:038:029 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

18:038:030 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

18:038:031 Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

18:038:032 Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

18:038:033 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

18:038:034 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

18:038:035 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?

18:038:036 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

18:038:037 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

18:038:038 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

18:038:039 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

18:038:040 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

18:038:041 Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

18:039:001 Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

18:039:002 Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

18:039:003 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows.

18:039:004 Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

18:039:005 Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

18:039:006 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

18:039:007 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

18:039:008 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.

18:039:009 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

18:039:010 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

18:039:011 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

18:039:012 Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

18:039:013 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

18:039:014 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

18:039:015 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

18:039:016 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her's: her labour is in vain without fear;

18:039:017 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

18:039:018 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

18:039:019 Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

18:039:020 Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

18:039:021 He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

18:039:022 He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

18:039:023 The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.

18:039:024 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.

18:039:025 He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

18:039:026 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

18:039:027 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

18:039:028 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

18:039:029 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

18:039:030 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

18:040:001 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

18:040:002 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

18:040:003 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

18:040:004 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

18:040:005 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

18:040:006 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

18:040:007 Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

18:040:008 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

18:040:009 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

18:040:010 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.

18:040:011 Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

18:040:012 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

18:040:013 Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

18:040:014 Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

18:040:015 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

18:040:016 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

18:040:017 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

18:040:018 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

18:040:019 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

18:040:020 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

18:040:021 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

18:040:022 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

18:040:023 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

18:040:024 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.

18:041:001 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

18:041:002 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

18:041:003 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

18:041:004 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

18:041:005 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

18:041:006 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

18:041:007 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

18:041:008 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

18:041:009 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

18:041:010 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

18:041:011 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

18:041:012 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

18:041:013 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

18:041:014 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

18:041:015 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

18:041:016 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

18:041:017 They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

18:041:018 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

18:041:019 Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

18:041:020 Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

18:041:021 His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

18:041:022 In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

18:041:023 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

18:041:024 His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

18:041:025 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

18:041:026 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

18:041:027 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

18:041:028 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

18:041:029 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

18:041:030 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

18:041:031 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

18:041:032 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

18:041:033 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

18:041:034 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

18:042:001 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

18:042:002 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

18:042:003 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

18:042:004 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

18:042:005 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

18:042:006 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

18:042:007 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

18:042:008 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

18:042:009 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job.

18:042:010 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

18:042:011 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.

18:042:012 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

18:042:013 He had also seven sons and three daughters.

18:042:014 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.

18:042:015 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

18:042:016 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

18:042:017 So Job died, being old and full of days.

Book 19 Psalms

19:001:001 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

19:001:002 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

19:001:003 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

19:001:004 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

19:001:005 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

19:001:006 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

19:002:001 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

19:002:002 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

19:002:003 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

19:002:004 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.

19:002:005 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

19:002:006 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

19:002:007 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

19:002:008 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

19:002:009 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

19:002:010 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

19:002:011 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

19:002:012 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

19:003:001 Lord, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

19:003:002 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

19:003:003 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

19:003:004 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

19:003:005 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

19:003:006 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

19:003:007 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

19:003:008 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

19:004:001 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

19:004:002 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

19:004:003 But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

19:004:004 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

19:004:005 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

19:004:006 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

19:004:007 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.

19:004:008 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

19:005:001 Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

19:005:002 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

19:005:003 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

19:005:004 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

19:005:005 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

19:005:006 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

19:005:007 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

19:005:008 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

19:005:009 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

19:005:010 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

19:005:011 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

19:005:012 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

19:006:001 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

19:006:002 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

19:006:003 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

19:006:004 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

19:006:005 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

19:006:006 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

19:006:007 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

19:006:008 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

19:006:009 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

19:006:010 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

19:007:001 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

19:007:002 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

19:007:003 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

19:007:004 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

19:007:005 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

19:007:006 Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

19:007:007 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.

19:007:008 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

19:007:009 Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

19:007:010 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

19:007:011 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

19:007:012 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

19:007:013 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

19:007:014 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

19:007:015 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

19:007:016 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

19:007:017 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

19:008:001 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

19:008:002 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

19:008:003 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

19:008:004 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

19:008:005 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

19:008:006 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

19:008:007 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

19:008:008 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

19:008:009 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

19:009:001 I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

19:009:002 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

19:009:003 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

19:009:004 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

19:009:005 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

19:009:006 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

19:009:007 But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

19:009:008 And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

19:009:009 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

19:009:010 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

19:009:011 Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

19:009:012 When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

19:009:013 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

19:009:014 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

19:009:015 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

19:009:016 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

19:009:017 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

19:009:018 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

19:009:019 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

19:009:020 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

19:010:001 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

19:010:002 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

19:010:003 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

19:010:004 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

19:010:005 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

19:010:006 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

19:010:007 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

19:010:008 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

19:010:009 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

19:010:010 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

19:010:011 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

19:010:012 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

19:010:013 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

19:010:014 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

19:010:015 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

19:010:016 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

19:010:017 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

19:010:018 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

19:011:001 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

19:011:002 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

19:011:003 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

19:011:004 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

19:011:005 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

19:011:006 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

19:011:007 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

19:012:001 Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

19:012:002 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

19:012:003 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

19:012:004 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

19:012:005 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

19:012:006 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

19:012:007 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

19:012:008 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

19:013:001 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

19:013:002 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

19:013:003 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

19:013:004 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

19:013:005 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

19:013:006 I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

19:014:001 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

19:014:002 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

19:014:003 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

19:014:004 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

19:014:005 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

19:014:006 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

19:014:007 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

19:015:001 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

19:015:002 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

19:015:003 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

19:015:004 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

19:015:005 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

19:016:001 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

19:016:002 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

19:016:003 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

19:016:004 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

19:016:005 The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

19:016:006 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

19:016:007 I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

19:016:008 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

19:016:009 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

19:016:010 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

19:016:011 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

19:017:001 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

19:017:002 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

19:017:003 Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

19:017:004 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

19:017:005 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

19:017:006 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

19:017:007 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

19:017:008 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

19:017:009 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

19:017:010 They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

19:017:011 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

19:017:012 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

19:017:013 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

19:017:014 From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

19:017:015 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

19:018:001 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

19:018:002 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

19:018:003 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

19:018:004 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

19:018:005 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

19:018:006 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

19:018:007 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

19:018:008 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

19:018:009 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

19:018:010 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

19:018:011 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

19:018:012 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

19:018:013 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

19:018:014 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

19:018:015 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

19:018:016 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

19:018:017 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

19:018:018 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

19:018:019 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

19:018:020 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

19:018:021 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

19:018:022 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

19:018:023 I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

19:018:024 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

19:018:025 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

19:018:026 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

19:018:027 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

19:018:028 For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

19:018:029 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

19:018:030 As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

19:018:031 For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?

19:018:032 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

19:018:033 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

19:018:034 He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

19:018:035 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

19:018:036 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

19:018:037 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

19:018:038 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

19:018:039 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

19:018:040 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

19:018:041 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

19:018:042 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

19:018:043 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

19:018:044 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

19:018:045 The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.

19:018:046 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

19:018:047 It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

19:018:048 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

19:018:049 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.

19:018:050 Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

19:019:001 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

19:019:002 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

19:019:003 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

19:019:004 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

19:019:005 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

19:019:006 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

19:019:007 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

19:019:008 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

19:019:009 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

19:019:010 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

19:019:011 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

19:019:012 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

19:019:013 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

19:019:014 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

19:020:001 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

19:020:002 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

19:020:003 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

19:020:004 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

19:020:005 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.

19:020:006 Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

19:020:007 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

19:020:008 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

19:020:009 Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

19:021:001 The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

19:021:002 Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

19:021:003 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

19:021:004 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

19:021:005 His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

19:021:006 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

19:021:007 For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

19:021:008 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

19:021:009 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

19:021:010 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

19:021:011 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

19:021:012 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

19:021:013 Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

19:022:001 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

19:022:002 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

19:022:003 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

19:022:004 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

19:022:005 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

19:022:006 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

19:022:007 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

19:022:008 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

19:022:009 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

19:022:010 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

19:022:011 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

19:022:012 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

19:022:013 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

19:022:014 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

19:022:015 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

19:022:016 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

19:022:017 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

19:022:018 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

19:022:019 But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

19:022:020 Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

19:022:021 Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

19:022:022 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

19:022:023 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.

19:022:024 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

19:022:025 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

19:022:026 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

19:022:027 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

19:022:028 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.

19:022:029 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

19:022:030 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

19:022:031 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

19:023:001 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

19:023:002 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

19:023:003 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

19:023:004 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

19:023:005 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

19:023:006 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

19:024:001 The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

19:024:002 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

19:024:003 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

19:024:004 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

19:024:005 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

19:024:006 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.

19:024:007 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

19:024:008 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

19:024:009 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

19:024:010 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

19:025:001 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

19:025:002 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

19:025:003 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

19:025:004 Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

19:025:005 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

19:025:006 Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

19:025:007 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

19:025:008 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

19:025:009 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

19:025:010 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

19:025:011 For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

19:025:012 What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

19:025:013 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

19:025:014 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

19:025:015 Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

19:025:016 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

19:025:017 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

19:025:018 Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

19:025:019 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

19:025:020 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

19:025:021 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

19:025:022 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

19:026:001 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

19:026:002 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

19:026:003 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

19:026:004 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

19:026:005 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

19:026:006 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

19:026:007 That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

19:026:008 LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

19:026:009 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

19:026:010 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

19:026:011 But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

19:026:012 My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

19:027:001 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

19:027:002 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

19:027:003 Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

19:027:004 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

19:027:005 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

19:027:006 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

19:027:007 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

19:027:008 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

19:027:009 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

19:027:010 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

19:027:011 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

19:027:012 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

19:027:013 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

19:027:014 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

19:028:001 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

19:028:002 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

19:028:003 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

19:028:004 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

19:028:005 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

19:028:006 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

19:028:007 The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

19:028:008 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

19:028:009 Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up for ever.

19:029:001 Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

19:029:002 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

19:029:003 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.

19:029:004 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

19:029:005 The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

19:029:006 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

19:029:007 The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.

19:029:008 The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

19:029:009 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

19:029:010 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

19:029:011 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

19:030:001 I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

19:030:002 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

19:030:003 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

19:030:004 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

19:030:005 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

19:030:006 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

19:030:007 LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

19:030:008 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

19:030:009 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

19:030:010 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

19:030:011 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

19:030:012 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

19:031:001 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

19:031:002 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

19:031:003 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

19:031:004 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

19:031:005 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

19:031:006 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

19:031:007 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

19:031:008 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

19:031:009 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

19:031:010 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

19:031:011 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

19:031:012 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

19:031:013 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

19:031:014 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

19:031:015 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

19:031:016 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

19:031:017 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

19:031:018 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19:031:019 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

19:031:020 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

19:031:021 Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

19:031:022 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

19:031:023 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

19:031:024 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.

19:032:001 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

19:032:002 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

19:032:003 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

19:032:004 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

19:032:005 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

19:032:006 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

19:032:007 Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

19:032:008 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

19:032:009 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

19:032:010 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

19:032:011 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

19:033:001 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

19:033:002 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

19:033:003 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

19:033:004 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

19:033:005 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

19:033:006 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

19:033:007 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

19:033:008 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

19:033:009 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

19:033:010 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

19:033:011 The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

19:033:012 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

19:033:013 The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

19:033:014 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

19:033:015 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.

19:033:016 There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

19:033:017 An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

19:033:018 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

19:033:019 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

19:033:020 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

19:033:021 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

19:033:022 Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

19:034:001 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

19:034:002 My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

19:034:003 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

19:034:004 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

19:034:005 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

19:034:006 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

19:034:007 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

19:034:008 O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

19:034:009 O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

19:034:010 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

19:034:011 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

19:034:012 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

19:034:013 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

19:034:014 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

19:034:015 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

19:034:016 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

19:034:017 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

19:034:018 The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

19:034:019 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

19:034:020 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

19:034:021 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

19:034:022 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

19:035:001 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

19:035:002 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

19:035:003 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

19:035:004 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

19:035:005 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

19:035:006 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

19:035:007 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

19:035:008 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

19:035:009 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

19:035:010 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

19:035:011 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

19:035:012 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

19:035:013 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

19:035:014 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

19:035:015 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

19:035:016 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

19:035:017 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.

19:035:018 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

19:035:019 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

19:035:020 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

19:035:021 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

19:035:022 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

19:035:023 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

19:035:024 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

19:035:025 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

19:035:026 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

19:035:027 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

19:035:028 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

19:036:001 The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

19:036:002 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

19:036:003 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

19:036:004 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

19:036:005 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.

19:036:006 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

19:036:007 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

19:036:008 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

19:036:009 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

19:036:010 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

19:036:011 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

19:036:012 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

19:037:001 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

19:037:002 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

19:037:003 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

19:037:004 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

19:037:005 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

19:037:006 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

19:037:007 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

19:037:008 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

19:037:009 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

19:037:010 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

19:037:011 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

19:037:012 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

19:037:013 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

19:037:014 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

19:037:015 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

19:037:016 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

19:037:017 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

19:037:018 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

19:037:019 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

19:037:020 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

19:037:021 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

19:037:022 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

19:037:023 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

19:037:024 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

19:037:025 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

19:037:026 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.

19:037:027 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

19:037:028 For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

19:037:029 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

19:037:030 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

19:037:031 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

19:037:032 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

19:037:033 The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

19:037:034 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

19:037:035 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

19:037:036 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

19:037:037 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

19:037:038 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

19:037:039 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

19:037:040 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

19:038:001 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

19:038:002 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

19:038:003 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

19:038:004 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

19:038:005 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

19:038:006 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

19:038:007 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

19:038:008 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

19:038:009 Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

19:038:010 My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

19:038:011 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

19:038:012 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

19:038:013 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

19:038:014 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

19:038:015 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

19:038:016 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

19:038:017 For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

19:038:018 For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

19:038:019 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

19:038:020 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

19:038:021 Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

19:038:022 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

19:039:001 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

19:039:002 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

19:039:003 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

19:039:004 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.

19:039:005 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

19:039:006 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

19:039:007 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

19:039:008 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

19:039:009 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

19:039:010 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

19:039:011 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

19:039:012 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

19:039:013 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

19:040:001 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

19:040:002 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

19:040:003 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

19:040:004 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

19:040:005 Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

19:040:006 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

19:040:007 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

19:040:008 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

19:040:009 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

19:040:010 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

19:040:011 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

19:040:012 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

19:040:013 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

19:040:014 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

19:040:015 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

19:040:016 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

19:040:017 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

19:041:001 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

19:041:002 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

19:041:003 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

19:041:004 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

19:041:005 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

19:041:006 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

19:041:007 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

19:041:008 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

19:041:009 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

19:041:010 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

19:041:011 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

19:041:012 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

19:041:013 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

19:042:001 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

19:042:002 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

19:042:003 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

19:042:004 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

19:042:005 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

19:042:006 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

19:042:007 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

19:042:008 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

19:042:009 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

19:042:010 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

19:042:011 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

19:043:001 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

19:043:002 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

19:043:003 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

19:043:004 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

19:043:005 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

19:044:001 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

19:044:002 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

19:044:003 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

19:044:004 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

19:044:005 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

19:044:006 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

19:044:007 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

19:044:008 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

19:044:009 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

19:044:010 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

19:044:011 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

19:044:012 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

19:044:013 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

19:044:014 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

19:044:015 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

19:044:016 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

19:044:017 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

19:044:018 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

19:044:019 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

19:044:020 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

19:044:021 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

19:044:022 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

19:044:023 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

19:044:024 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

19:044:025 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

19:044:026 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

19:045:001 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

19:045:002 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

19:045:003 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

19:045:004 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

19:045:005 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

19:045:006 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

19:045:007 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

19:045:008 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

19:045:009 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

19:045:010 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

19:045:011 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

19:045:012 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

19:045:013 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

19:045:014 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

19:045:015 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

19:045:016 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

19:045:017 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

19:046:001 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

19:046:002 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

19:046:003 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.

19:046:004 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

19:046:005 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

19:046:006 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

19:046:007 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

19:046:008 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

19:046:009 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

19:046:010 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

19:046:011 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

19:047:001 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

19:047:002 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

19:047:003 He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

19:047:004 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

19:047:005 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

19:047:006 Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.

19:047:007 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

19:047:008 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

19:047:009 The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

19:048:001 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

19:048:002 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

19:048:003 God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

19:048:004 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

19:048:005 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

19:048:006 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

19:048:007 Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

19:048:008 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

19:048:009 We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

19:048:010 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

19:048:011 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

19:048:012 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

19:048:013 Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

19:048:014 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

19:049:001 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

19:049:002 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

19:049:003 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

19:049:004 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

19:049:005 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

19:049:006 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

19:049:007 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

19:049:008 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

19:049:009 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

19:049:010 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

19:049:011 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

19:049:012 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

19:049:013 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

19:049:014 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

19:049:015 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

19:049:016 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

19:049:017 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

19:049:018 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

19:049:019 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

19:049:020 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.

19:050:001 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

19:050:002 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

19:050:003 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

19:050:004 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

19:050:005 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

19:050:006 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

19:050:007 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

19:050:008 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

19:050:009 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

19:050:010 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

19:050:011 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

19:050:012 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

19:050:013 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

19:050:014 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

19:050:015 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

19:050:016 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

19:050:017 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.

19:050:018 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

19:050:019 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

19:050:020 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

19:050:021 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

19:050:022 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

19:050:023 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

19:051:001 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

19:051:002 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

19:051:003 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

19:051:004 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

19:051:005 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

19:051:006 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

19:051:007 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

19:051:008 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

19:051:009 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

19:051:010 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

19:051:011 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

19:051:012 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

19:051:013 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

19:051:014 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

19:051:015 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

19:051:016 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

19:051:017 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

19:051:018 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

19:051:019 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

19:052:001 Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

19:052:002 The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

19:052:003 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

19:052:004 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

19:052:005 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

19:052:006 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

19:052:007 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

19:052:008 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

19:052:009 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

19:053:001 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

19:053:002 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

19:053:003 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

19:053:004 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

19:053:005 There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

19:053:006 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

19:054:001 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

19:054:002 Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

19:054:003 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

19:054:004 Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.

19:054:005 He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.

19:054:006 I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.

19:054:007 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.

19:055:001 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

19:055:002 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

19:055:003 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

19:055:004 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

19:055:005 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

19:055:006 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

19:055:007 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

19:055:008 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

19:055:009 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

19:055:010 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

19:055:011 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

19:055:012 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

19:055:013 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

19:055:014 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

19:055:015 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

19:055:016 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.

19:055:017 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

19:055:018 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

19:055:019 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

19:055:020 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

19:055:021 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

19:055:022 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

19:055:023 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

19:056:001 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

19:056:002 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

19:056:003 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

19:056:004 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

19:056:005 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

19:056:006 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

19:056:007 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

19:056:008 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

19:056:009 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

19:056:010 In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.

19:056:011 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

19:056:012 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

19:056:013 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

19:057:001 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

19:057:002 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

19:057:003 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

19:057:004 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

19:057:005 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.

19:057:006 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

19:057:007 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

19:057:008 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

19:057:009 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.

19:057:010 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

19:057:011 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth.

19:058:001 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

19:058:002 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

19:058:003 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

19:058:004 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

19:058:005 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

19:058:006 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

19:058:007 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

19:058:008 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

19:058:009 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

19:058:010 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

19:058:011 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

19:059:001 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

19:059:002 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

19:059:003 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

19:059:004 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

19:059:005 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

19:059:006 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

19:059:007 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

19:059:008 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

19:059:009 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

19:059:010 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

19:059:011 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

19:059:012 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

19:059:013 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

19:059:014 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

19:059:015 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

19:059:016 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

19:059:017 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

19:060:001 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

19:060:002 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

19:060:003 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

19:060:004 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

19:060:005 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

19:060:006 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

19:060:007 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

19:060:008 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou because of me.

19:060:009 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

19:060:010 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

19:060:011 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

19:060:012 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

19:061:001 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

19:061:002 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

19:061:003 For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

19:061:004 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

19:061:005 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.

19:061:006 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

19:061:007 He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

19:061:008 So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.

19:062:001 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

19:062:002 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

19:062:003 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

19:062:004 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

19:062:005 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

19:062:006 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

19:062:007 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

19:062:008 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

19:062:009 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

19:062:010 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

19:062:011 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

19:062:012 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

19:063:001 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

19:063:002 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

19:063:003 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

19:063:004 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

19:063:005 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

19:063:006 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

19:063:007 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

19:063:008 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

19:063:009 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

19:063:010 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

19:063:011 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

19:064:001 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

19:064:002 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

19:064:003 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

19:064:004 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

19:064:005 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

19:064:006 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

19:064:007 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

19:064:008 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

19:064:009 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

19:064:010 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

19:065:001 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

19:065:002 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

19:065:003 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

19:065:004 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

19:065:005 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

19:065:006 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:

19:065:007 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

19:065:008 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

19:065:009 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

19:065:010 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

19:065:011 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

19:065:012 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

19:065:013 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

19:066:001 Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

19:066:002 Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.

19:066:003 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

19:066:004 All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

19:066:005 Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

19:066:006 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

19:066:007 He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

19:066:008 O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

19:066:009 Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

19:066:010 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

19:066:011 Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

19:066:012 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

19:066:013 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

19:066:014 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

19:066:015 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

19:066:016 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

19:066:017 I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

19:066:018 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

19:066:019 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

19:066:020 Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

19:067:001 God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.

19:067:002 That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.

19:067:003 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

19:067:004 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

19:067:005 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

19:067:006 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

19:067:007 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

19:068:001 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

19:068:002 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

19:068:003 But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

19:068:004 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

19:068:005 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

19:068:006 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

19:068:007 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

19:068:008 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

19:068:009 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

19:068:010 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

19:068:011 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

19:068:012 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

19:068:013 Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

19:068:014 When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.

19:068:015 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.

19:068:016 Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

19:068:017 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

19:068:018 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

19:068:019 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

19:068:020 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

19:068:021 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

19:068:022 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

19:068:023 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

19:068:024 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

19:068:025 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

19:068:026 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

19:068:027 There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

19:068:028 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

19:068:029 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.

19:068:030 Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

19:068:031 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

19:068:032 Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises unto the Lord; Selah:

19:068:033 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

19:068:034 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

19:068:035 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

19:069:001 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

19:069:002 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

19:069:003 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

19:069:004 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

19:069:005 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

19:069:006 Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

19:069:007 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

19:069:008 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

19:069:009 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

19:069:010 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

19:069:011 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

19:069:012 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

19:069:013 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

19:069:014 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

19:069:015 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

19:069:016 Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

19:069:017 And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

19:069:018 Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

19:069:019 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

19:069:020 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

19:069:021 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

19:069:022 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

19:069:023 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

19:069:024 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

19:069:025 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.

19:069:026 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

19:069:027 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

19:069:028 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

19:069:029 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

19:069:030 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

19:069:031 This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

19:069:032 The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.

19:069:033 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

19:069:034 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.

19:069:035 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

19:069:036 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

19:070:001 MAKE HASTE, O GOD, TO DELIVER ME; MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME, O LORD.

19:070:002 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

19:070:003 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

19:070:004 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

19:070:005 But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

19:071:001 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

19:071:002 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

19:071:003 Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

19:071:004 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

19:071:005 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

19:071:006 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

19:071:007 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

19:071:008 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

19:071:009 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

19:071:010 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

19:071:011 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

19:071:012 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

19:071:013 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

19:071:014 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.

19:071:015 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

19:071:016 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

19:071:017 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

19:071:018 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

19:071:019 Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

19:071:020 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

19:071:021 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

19:071:022 I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

19:071:023 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

19:071:024 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

19:072:001 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

19:072:002 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

19:072:003 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

19:072:004 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

19:072:005 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

19:072:006 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

19:072:007 In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

19:072:008 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

19:072:009 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

19:072:010 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

19:072:011 Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

19:072:012 For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

19:072:013 He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

19:072:014 He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

19:072:015 And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

19:072:016 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

19:072:017 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

19:072:018 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.

19:072:019 And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

19:072:020 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

19:073:001 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

19:073:002 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

19:073:003 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

19:073:004 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

19:073:005 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

19:073:006 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

19:073:007 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

19:073:008 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

19:073:009 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

19:073:010 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

19:073:011 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

19:073:012 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

19:073:013 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

19:073:014 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

19:073:015 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

19:073:016 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

19:073:017 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

19:073:018 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

19:073:019 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

19:073:020 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

19:073:021 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

19:073:022 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

19:073:023 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

19:073:024 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

19:073:025 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

19:073:026 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

19:073:027 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

19:073:028 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

19:074:001 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

19:074:002 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

19:074:003 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

19:074:004 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

19:074:005 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

19:074:006 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

19:074:007 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

19:074:008 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

19:074:009 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

19:074:010 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

19:074:011 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

19:074:012 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

19:074:013 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

19:074:014 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

19:074:015 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

19:074:016 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

19:074:017 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

19:074:018 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

19:074:019 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

19:074:020 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

19:074:021 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

19:074:022 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

19:074:023 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

19:075:001 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

19:075:002 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

19:075:003 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

19:075:004 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

19:075:005 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

19:075:006 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

19:075:007 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

19:075:008 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

19:075:009 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

19:075:010 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

19:076:001 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

19:076:002 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

19:076:003 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

19:076:004 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

19:076:005 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

19:076:006 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

19:076:007 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

19:076:008 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

19:076:009 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

19:076:010 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

19:076:011 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

19:076:012 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

19:077:001 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

19:077:002 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

19:077:003 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

19:077:004 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

19:077:005 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

19:077:006 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

19:077:007 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

19:077:008 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

19:077:009 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

19:077:010 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

19:077:011 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

19:077:012 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

19:077:013 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

19:077:014 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

19:077:015 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

19:077:016 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

19:077:017 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

19:077:018 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

19:077:019 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

19:077:020 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

19:078:001 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

19:078:002 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

19:078:003 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

19:078:004 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

19:078:005 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

19:078:006 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

19:078:007 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

19:078:008 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

19:078:009 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

19:078:010 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

19:078:011 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

19:078:012 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

19:078:013 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

19:078:014 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

19:078:015 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

19:078:016 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

19:078:017 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

19:078:018 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

19:078:019 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

19:078:020 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

19:078:021 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

19:078:022 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

19:078:023 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

19:078:024 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

19:078:025 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

19:078:026 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

19:078:027 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

19:078:028 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

19:078:029 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

19:078:030 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

19:078:031 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

19:078:032 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

19:078:033 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

19:078:034 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

19:078:035 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

19:078:036 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

19:078:037 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

19:078:038 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

19:078:039 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

19:078:040 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

19:078:041 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

19:078:042 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

19:078:043 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.

19:078:044 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

19:078:045 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

19:078:046 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

19:078:047 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

19:078:048 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

19:078:049 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

19:078:050 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

19:078:051 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

19:078:052 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

19:078:053 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

19:078:054 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

19:078:055 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

19:078:056 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

19:078:057 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

19:078:058 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

19:078:059 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

19:078:060 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

19:078:061 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

19:078:062 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

19:078:063 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

19:078:064 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

19:078:065 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

19:078:066 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

19:078:067 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

19:078:068 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

19:078:069 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

19:078:070 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

19:078:071 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

19:078:072 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

19:079:001 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

19:079:002 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

19:079:003 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

19:079:004 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

19:079:005 How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

19:079:006 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

19:079:007 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

19:079:008 O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

19:079:009 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

19:079:010 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

19:079:011 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

19:079:012 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

19:079:013 So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

19:080:001 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

19:080:002 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

19:080:003 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

19:080:004 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

19:080:005 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

19:080:006 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

19:080:007 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

19:080:008 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.

19:080:009 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

19:080:010 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

19:080:011 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

19:080:012 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

19:080:013 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.

19:080:014 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

19:080:015 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

19:080:016 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

19:080:017 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

19:080:018 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

19:080:019 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

19:081:001 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

19:081:002 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

19:081:003 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

19:081:004 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

19:081:005 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

19:081:006 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

19:081:007 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

19:081:008 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

19:081:009 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

19:081:010 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

19:081:011 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

19:081:012 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

19:081:013 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

19:081:014 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

19:081:015 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

19:081:016 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

19:082:001 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

19:082:002 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

19:082:003 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

19:082:004 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

19:082:005 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

19:082:006 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

19:082:007 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

19:082:008 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

19:083:001 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

19:083:002 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

19:083:003 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

19:083:004 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

19:083:005 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

19:083:006 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

19:083:007 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

19:083:008 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

19:083:009 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

19:083:010 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

19:083:011 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

19:083:012 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

19:083:013 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

19:083:014 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

19:083:015 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

19:083:016 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

19:083:017 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

19:083:018 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

19:084:001 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

19:084:002 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

19:084:003 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

19:084:004 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

19:084:005 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

19:084:006 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

19:084:007 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

19:084:008 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

19:084:009 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

19:084:010 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

19:084:011 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

19:084:012 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

19:085:001 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

19:085:002 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

19:085:003 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

19:085:004 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

19:085:005 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

19:085:006 Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

19:085:007 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

19:085:008 I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

19:085:009 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

19:085:010 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

19:085:011 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

19:085:012 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

19:085:013 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

19:086:001 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

19:086:002 Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

19:086:003 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

19:086:004 Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

19:086:005 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

19:086:006 Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

19:086:007 In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

19:086:008 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

19:086:009 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

19:086:010 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

19:086:011 Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

19:086:012 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

19:086:013 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

19:086:014 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

19:086:015 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

19:086:016 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

19:086:017 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

19:087:001 His foundation is in the holy mountains.

19:087:002 The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

19:087:003 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

19:087:004 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

19:087:005 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

19:087:006 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

19:087:007 As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

19:088:001 O lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

19:088:002 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

19:088:003 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

19:088:004 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

19:088:005 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

19:088:006 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

19:088:007 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

19:088:008 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

19:088:009 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

19:088:010 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

19:088:011 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

19:088:012 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

19:088:013 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

19:088:014 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

19:088:015 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

19:088:016 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

19:088:017 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

19:088:018 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

19:089:001 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

19:089:002 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

19:089:003 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

19:089:004 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

19:089:005 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

19:089:006 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

19:089:007 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

19:089:008 O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

19:089:009 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.

19:089:010 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

19:089:011 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

19:089:012 The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

19:089:013 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

19:089:014 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

19:089:015 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

19:089:016 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

19:089:017 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

19:089:018 For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

19:089:019 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

19:089:020 I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

19:089:021 With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

19:089:022 The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

19:089:023 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

19:089:024 But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

19:089:025 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

19:089:026 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

19:089:027 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

19:089:028 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

19:089:029 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

19:089:030 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

19:089:031 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

19:089:032 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

19:089:033 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

19:089:034 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

19:089:035 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

19:089:036 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

19:089:037 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

19:089:038 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

19:089:039 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

19:089:040 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

19:089:041 All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

19:089:042 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

19:089:043 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

19:089:044 Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

19:089:045 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

19:089:046 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

19:089:047 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

19:089:048 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

19:089:049 Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

19:089:050 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

19:089:051 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

19:089:052 Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

19:090:001 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

19:090:002 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

19:090:003 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

19:090:004 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

19:090:005 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

19:090:006 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

19:090:007 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

19:090:008 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

19:090:009 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

19:090:010 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

19:090:011 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

19:090:012 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

19:090:013 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

19:090:014 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

19:090:015 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

19:090:016 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

19:090:017 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

19:091:001 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

19:091:002 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

19:091:003 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

19:091:004 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

19:091:005 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

19:091:006 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

19:091:007 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

19:091:008 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

19:091:009 Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

19:091:010 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

19:091:011 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

19:091:012 They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

19:091:013 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

19:091:014 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

19:091:015 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

19:091:016 With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

19:092:001 IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:

19:092:002 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

19:092:003 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

19:092:004 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

19:092:005 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

19:092:006 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

19:092:007 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

19:092:008 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.

19:092:009 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

19:092:010 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

19:092:011 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

19:092:012 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

19:092:013 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

19:092:014 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

19:092:015 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

19:093:001 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

19:093:002 Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

19:093:003 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

19:093:004 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

19:093:005 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

19:094:001 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

19:094:002 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

19:094:003 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

19:094:004 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

19:094:005 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

19:094:006 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

19:094:007 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

19:094:008 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

19:094:009 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

19:094:010 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

19:094:011 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

19:094:012 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

19:094:013 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

19:094:014 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

19:094:015 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

19:094:016 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

19:094:017 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

19:094:018 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

19:094:019 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

19:094:020 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

19:094:021 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

19:094:022 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

19:094:023 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

19:095:001 O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

19:095:002 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

19:095:003 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

19:095:004 In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

19:095:005 The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

19:095:006 O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

19:095:007 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

19:095:008 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

19:095:009 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

19:095:010 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

19:095:011 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

19:096:001 O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.

19:096:002 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

19:096:003 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.

19:096:004 For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

19:096:005 For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

19:096:006 Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

19:096:007 Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

19:096:008 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.

19:096:009 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

19:096:010 Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

19:096:011 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

19:096:012 Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice

19:096:013 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

19:097:001 The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

19:097:002 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

19:097:003 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

19:097:004 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

19:097:005 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

19:097:006 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

19:097:007 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

19:097:008 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

19:097:009 For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.

19:097:010 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

19:097:011 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

19:097:012 Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

19:098:001 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

19:098:002 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.

19:098:003 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

19:098:004 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

19:098:005 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

19:098:006 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

19:098:007 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

19:098:008 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together

19:098:009 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

19:099:001 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

19:099:002 The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

19:099:003 Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

19:099:004 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

19:099:005 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.

19:099:006 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

19:099:007 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

19:099:008 Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

19:099:009 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

19:100:001 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

19:100:002 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

19:100:003 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

19:100:004 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

19:100:005 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

19:101:001 I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

19:101:002 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

19:101:003 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

19:101:004 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

19:101:005 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

19:101:006 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

19:101:007 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

19:101:008 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

19:102:001 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

19:102:002 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

19:102:003 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

19:102:004 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

19:102:005 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

19:102:006 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

19:102:007 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

19:102:008 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

19:102:009 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

19:102:010 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

19:102:011 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

19:102:012 But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.

19:102:013 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

19:102:014 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

19:102:015 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.

19:102:016 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

19:102:017 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

19:102:018 This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

19:102:019 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

19:102:020 To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

19:102:021 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

19:102:022 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

19:102:023 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

19:102:024 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

19:102:025 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

19:102:026 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

19:102:027 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

19:102:028 The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

19:103:001 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

19:103:002 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

19:103:003 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

19:103:004 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

19:103:005 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.

19:103:006 The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

19:103:007 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

19:103:008 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

19:103:009 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

19:103:010 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

19:103:011 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

19:103:012 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

19:103:013 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

19:103:014 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

19:103:015 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

19:103:016 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

19:103:017 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

19:103:018 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

19:103:019 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

19:103:020 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

19:103:021 Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

19:103:022 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

19:104:001 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.

19:104:002 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

19:104:003 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

19:104:004 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:

19:104:005 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

19:104:006 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

19:104:007 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

19:104:008 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

19:104:009 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

19:104:010 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

19:104:011 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

19:104:012 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

19:104:013 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

19:104:014 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

19:104:015 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

19:104:016 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

19:104:017 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

19:104:018 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

19:104:019 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

19:104:020 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

19:104:021 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

19:104:022 The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

19:104:023 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

19:104:024 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

19:104:025 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

19:104:026 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

19:104:027 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

19:104:028 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

19:104:029 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

19:104:030 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

19:104:031 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.

19:104:032 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.

19:104:033 I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

19:104:034 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

19:104:035 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.

19:105:001 O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.

19:105:002 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

19:105:003 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

19:105:004 Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

19:105:005 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

19:105:006 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

19:105:007 He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

19:105:008 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

19:105:009 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

19:105:010 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

19:105:011 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

19:105:012 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

19:105:013 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

19:105:014 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

19:105:015 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

19:105:016 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

19:105:017 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

19:105:018 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

19:105:019 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

19:105:020 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

19:105:021 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

19:105:022 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

19:105:023 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

19:105:024 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

19:105:025 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

19:105:026 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

19:105:027 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

19:105:028 He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

19:105:029 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

19:105:030 Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

19:105:031 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.

19:105:032 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

19:105:033 He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.

19:105:034 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

19:105:035 And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

19:105:036 He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

19:105:037 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

19:105:038 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

19:105:039 He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

19:105:040 The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

19:105:041 He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

19:105:042 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

19:105:043 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:

19:105:044 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

19:105:045 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

19:106:001 Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:106:002 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?

19:106:003 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

19:106:004 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

19:106:005 That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

19:106:006 We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

19:106:007 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

19:106:008 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

19:106:009 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

19:106:010 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

19:106:011 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

19:106:012 Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

19:106:013 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

19:106:014 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

19:106:015 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

19:106:016 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

19:106:017 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.

19:106:018 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

19:106:019 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

19:106:020 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

19:106:021 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

19:106:022 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

19:106:023 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

19:106:024 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

19:106:025 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

19:106:026 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

19:106:027 To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

19:106:028 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

19:106:029 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

19:106:030 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

19:106:031 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

19:106:032 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

19:106:033 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

19:106:034 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

19:106:035 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

19:106:036 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

19:106:037 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

19:106:038 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

19:106:039 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

19:106:040 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

19:106:041 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

19:106:042 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

19:106:043 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

19:106:044 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

19:106:045 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

19:106:046 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

19:106:047 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

19:106:048 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

19:107:001 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:107:002 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

19:107:003 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

19:107:004 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

19:107:005 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

19:107:006 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

19:107:007 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

19:107:008 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

19:107:009 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

19:107:010 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

19:107:011 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

19:107:012 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

19:107:013 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

19:107:014 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

19:107:015 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

19:107:016 For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

19:107:017 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

19:107:018 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

19:107:019 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

19:107:020 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

19:107:021 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

19:107:022 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.

19:107:023 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

19:107:024 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.

19:107:025 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

19:107:026 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

19:107:027 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.

19:107:028 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

19:107:029 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

19:107:030 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

19:107:031 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!

19:107:032 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.

19:107:033 He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

19:107:034 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

19:107:035 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

19:107:036 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;

19:107:037 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

19:107:038 He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

19:107:039 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

19:107:040 He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

19:107:041 Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

19:107:042 The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

19:107:043 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

19:108:001 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

19:108:002 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

19:108:003 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

19:108:004 For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

19:108:005 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;

19:108:006 That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

19:108:007 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

19:108:008 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

19:108:009 Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.

19:108:010 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?

19:108:011 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?

19:108:012 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

19:108:013 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

19:109:001 Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

19:109:002 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

19:109:003 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

19:109:004 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

19:109:005 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

19:109:006 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

19:109:007 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

19:109:008 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

19:109:009 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

19:109:010 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

19:109:011 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

19:109:012 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

19:109:013 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

19:109:014 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

19:109:015 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

19:109:016 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

19:109:017 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

19:109:018 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19:109:019 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

19:109:020 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

19:109:021 But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

19:109:022 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

19:109:023 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

19:109:024 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

19:109:025 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

19:109:026 Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

19:109:027 That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

19:109:028 Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

19:109:029 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

19:109:030 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.

19:109:031 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.

19:110:001 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

19:110:002 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

19:110:003 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

19:110:004 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

19:110:005 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

19:110:006 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

19:110:007 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.

19:111:001 Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.

19:111:002 The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

19:111:003 His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

19:111:004 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

19:111:005 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

19:111:006 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

19:111:007 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.

19:111:008 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

19:111:009 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name.

19:111:010 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

19:112:001 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

19:112:002 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

19:112:003 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

19:112:004 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

19:112:005 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

19:112:006 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

19:112:007 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

19:112:008 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he see his desire upon his enemies.

19:112:009 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

19:112:010 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

19:113:001 Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD.

19:113:002 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.

19:113:003 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised.

19:113:004 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

19:113:005 Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,

19:113:006 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

19:113:007 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

19:113:008 That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

19:113:009 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

19:114:001 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

19:114:002 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

19:114:003 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

19:114:004 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

19:114:005 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

19:114:006 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

19:114:007 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

19:114:008 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

19:115:001 Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

19:115:002 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

19:115:003 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

19:115:004 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

19:115:005 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

19:115:006 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

19:115:007 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

19:115:008 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

19:115:009 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

19:115:010 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

19:115:011 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

19:115:012 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

19:115:013 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

19:115:014 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

19:115:015 Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.

19:115:016 The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

19:115:017 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

19:115:018 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.

19:116:001 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

19:116:002 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

19:116:003 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

19:116:004 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

19:116:005 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

19:116:006 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

19:116:007 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.

19:116:008 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

19:116:009 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

19:116:010 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

19:116:011 I said in my haste, All men are liars.

19:116:012 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?

19:116:013 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

19:116:014 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.

19:116:015 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

19:116:016 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

19:116:017 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

19:116:018 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.

19:116:019 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

19:117:001 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.

19:117:002 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

19:118:001 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.

19:118:002 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

19:118:003 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

19:118:004 Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

19:118:005 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.

19:118:006 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

19:118:007 The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

19:118:008 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

19:118:009 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

19:118:010 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.

19:118:011 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

19:118:012 They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

19:118:013 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

19:118:014 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

19:118:015 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

19:118:016 The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

19:118:017 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

19:118:018 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

19:118:019 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

19:118:020 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

19:118:021 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

19:118:022 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

19:118:023 This is the LORD's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

19:118:024 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

19:118:025 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

19:118:026 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

19:118:027 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

19:118:028 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.

19:118:029 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:119:001 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

19:119:002 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

19:119:003 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

19:119:004 Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.

19:119:005 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

19:119:006 Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

19:119:007 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

19:119:008 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

19:119:009 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

19:119:010 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

19:119:011 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

19:119:012 Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.

19:119:013 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

19:119:014 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

19:119:015 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

19:119:016 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

19:119:017 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.

19:119:018 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

19:119:019 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

19:119:020 My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

19:119:021 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

19:119:022 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

19:119:023 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

19:119:024 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

19:119:025 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

19:119:026 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

19:119:027 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

19:119:028 My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

19:119:029 Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

19:119:030 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

19:119:031 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

19:119:032 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

19:119:033 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.

19:119:034 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

19:119:035 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

19:119:036 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

19:119:037 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

19:119:038 Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

19:119:039 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

19:119:040 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

19:119:041 Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

19:119:042 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

19:119:043 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

19:119:044 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

19:119:045 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

19:119:046 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

19:119:047 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

19:119:048 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

19:119:049 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

19:119:050 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

19:119:051 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

19:119:052 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

19:119:053 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

19:119:054 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

19:119:055 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

19:119:056 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

19:119:057 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

19:119:058 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

19:119:059 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

19:119:060 I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

19:119:061 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

19:119:062 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

19:119:063 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

19:119:064 The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

19:119:065 Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

19:119:066 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

19:119:067 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

19:119:068 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

19:119:069 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

19:119:070 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

19:119:071 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

19:119:072 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

19:119:073 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

19:119:074 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

19:119:075 I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

19:119:076 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

19:119:077 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

19:119:078 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

19:119:079 Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

19:119:080 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

19:119:081 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

19:119:082 Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

19:119:083 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

19:119:084 How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

19:119:085 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

19:119:086 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

19:119:087 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

19:119:088 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

19:119:089 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

19:119:090 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.

19:119:091 They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.

19:119:092 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

19:119:093 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

19:119:094 I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts.

19:119:095 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

19:119:096 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

19:119:097 O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

19:119:098 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

19:119:099 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

19:119:100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

19:119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

19:119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

19:119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

19:119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

19:119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

19:119:106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

19:119:107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

19:119:108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.

19:119:109 My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

19:119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

19:119:111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

19:119:112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

19:119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

19:119:114 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

19:119:115 Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

19:119:116 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

19:119:117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

19:119:118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

19:119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

19:119:120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

19:119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

19:119:122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

19:119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

19:119:124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

19:119:125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

19:119:126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

19:119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

19:119:128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.

19:119:129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

19:119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

19:119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

19:119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

19:119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

19:119:134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

19:119:135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.

19:119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

19:119:137 Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

19:119:138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.

19:119:139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.

19:119:140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

19:119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

19:119:142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

19:119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

19:119:144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

19:119:145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

19:119:146 I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.

19:119:147 I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

19:119:148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

19:119:149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.

19:119:150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

19:119:151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.

19:119:152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

19:119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

19:119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

19:119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

19:119:156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

19:119:157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

19:119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

19:119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

19:119:160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

19:119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

19:119:162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

19:119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

19:119:164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

19:119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

19:119:166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

19:119:167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

19:119:168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

19:119:169 Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.

19:119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.

19:119:171 My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

19:119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

19:119:173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

19:119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

19:119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

19:119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

19:120:001 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

19:120:002 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

19:120:003 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

19:120:004 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

19:120:005 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

19:120:006 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

19:120:007 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

19:121:001 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

19:121:002 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

19:121:003 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

19:121:004 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

19:121:005 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

19:121:006 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

19:121:007 The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

19:121:008 The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

19:122:001 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

19:122:002 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

19:122:003 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

19:122:004 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

19:122:005 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

19:122:006 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

19:122:007 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.

19:122:008 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

19:122:009 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

19:123:001 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

19:123:002 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

19:123:003 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

19:123:004 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

19:124:001 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

19:124:002 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

19:124:003 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

19:124:004 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

19:124:005 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

19:124:006 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

19:124:007 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

19:124:008 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

19:125:001 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

19:125:002 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

19:125:003 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

19:125:004 Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

19:125:005 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

19:126:001 When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

19:126:002 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

19:126:003 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

19:126:004 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

19:126:005 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

19:126:006 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

19:127:001 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

19:127:002 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

19:127:003 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

19:127:004 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

19:127:005 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

19:128:001 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

19:128:002 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

19:128:003 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

19:128:004 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

19:128:005 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

19:128:006 Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

19:129:001 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

19:129:002 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

19:129:003 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

19:129:004 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

19:129:005 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

19:129:006 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

19:129:007 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

19:129:008 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

19:130:001 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

19:130:002 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

19:130:003 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

19:130:004 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

19:130:005 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

19:130:006 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

19:130:007 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

19:130:008 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

19:131:001 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

19:131:002 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

19:131:003 Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

19:132:001 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:

19:132:002 How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;

19:132:003 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

19:132:004 I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

19:132:005 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.

19:132:006 Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

19:132:007 We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

19:132:008 Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

19:132:009 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

19:132:010 For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

19:132:011 The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

19:132:012 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon thy throne for evermore.

19:132:013 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

19:132:014 This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

19:132:015 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

19:132:016 I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

19:132:017 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

19:132:018 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

19:133:001 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

19:133:002 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

19:133:003 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

19:134:001 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.

19:134:002 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

19:134:003 The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.

19:135:001 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O ye servants of the LORD.

19:135:002 Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God.

19:135:003 Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.

19:135:004 For the LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

19:135:005 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

19:135:006 Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.

19:135:007 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.

19:135:008 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

19:135:009 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.

19:135:010 Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

19:135:011 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:

19:135:012 And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.

19:135:013 Thy name, O LORD, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O LORD, throughout all generations.

19:135:014 For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

19:135:015 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

19:135:016 They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

19:135:017 They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

19:135:018 They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

19:135:019 Bless the LORD, O house of Israel: bless the LORD, O house of Aaron:

19:135:020 Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.

19:135:021 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

19:136:001 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:002 O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:003 O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:004 To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:005 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:006 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:007 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:008 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:009 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:010 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:011 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:012 With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:013 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:014 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:015 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:016 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:017 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:018 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:019 Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:020 And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:021 And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:022 Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:023 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

19:136:024 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:025 Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:136:026 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.

19:137:001 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

19:137:002 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

19:137:003 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

19:137:004 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

19:137:005 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

19:137:006 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

19:137:007 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

19:137:008 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

19:137:009 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

19:138:001 I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.

19:138:002 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.

19:138:003 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

19:138:004 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

19:138:005 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

19:138:006 Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

19:138:007 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

19:138:008 The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

19:139:001 O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.

19:139:002 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

19:139:003 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

19:139:004 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

19:139:005 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

19:139:006 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

19:139:007 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

19:139:008 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

19:139:009 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

19:139:010 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

19:139:011 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

19:139:012 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

19:139:013 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

19:139:014 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

19:139:015 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

19:139:016 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

19:139:017 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

19:139:018 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

19:139:019 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

19:139:020 For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

19:139:021 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

19:139:022 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

19:139:023 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

19:139:024 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

19:140:001 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

19:140:002 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

19:140:003 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

19:140:004 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

19:140:005 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

19:140:006 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

19:140:007 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

19:140:008 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

19:140:009 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

19:140:010 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

19:140:011 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

19:140:012 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

19:140:013 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

19:141:001 Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

19:141:002 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

19:141:003 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

19:141:004 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

19:141:005 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

19:141:006 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

19:141:007 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

19:141:008 But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

19:141:009 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

19:141:010 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

19:142:001 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

19:142:002 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

19:142:003 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

19:142:004 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

19:142:005 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

19:142:006 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

19:142:007 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

19:143:001 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

19:143:002 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

19:143:003 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

19:143:004 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

19:143:005 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

19:143:006 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

19:143:007 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

19:143:008 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

19:143:009 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

19:143:010 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

19:143:011 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

19:143:012 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

19:144:001 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

19:144:002 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

19:144:003 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

19:144:004 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

19:144:005 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

19:144:006 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

19:144:007 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

19:144:008 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

19:144:009 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

19:144:010 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

19:144:011 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

19:144:012 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

19:144:013 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

19:144:014 That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

19:144:015 Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

19:145:001 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

19:145:002 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

19:145:003 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

19:145:004 One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

19:145:005 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

19:145:006 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

19:145:007 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

19:145:008 The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

19:145:009 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

19:145:010 All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.

19:145:011 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

19:145:012 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

19:145:013 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

19:145:014 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

19:145:015 The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

19:145:016 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

19:145:017 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

19:145:018 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

19:145:019 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

19:145:020 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

19:145:021 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

19:146:001 Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

19:146:002 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

19:146:003 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

19:146:004 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

19:146:005 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

19:146:006 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:

19:146:007 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

19:146:008 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

19:146:009 The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

19:146:010 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.

19:147:001 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

19:147:002 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

19:147:003 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

19:147:004 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

19:147:005 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

19:147:006 The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

19:147:007 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

19:147:008 Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

19:147:009 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

19:147:010 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

19:147:011 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

19:147:012 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.

19:147:013 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

19:147:014 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.

19:147:015 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.

19:147:016 He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

19:147:017 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

19:147:018 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

19:147:019 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

19:147:020 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

19:148:001 Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.

19:148:002 Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

19:148:003 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

19:148:004 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

19:148:005 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.

19:148:006 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.

19:148:007 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:

19:148:008 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

19:148:009 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

19:148:010 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

19:148:011 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:

19:148:012 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:

19:148:013 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.

19:148:014 He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the LORD.

19:149:001 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

19:149:002 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

19:149:003 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

19:149:004 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

19:149:005 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

19:149:006 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

19:149:007 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

19:149:008 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

19:149:009 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

19:150:001 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

19:150:002 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.

19:150:003 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

19:150:004 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

19:150:005 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

19:150:006 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

Book 20 Proverbs

20:001:001 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

20:001:002 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

20:001:003 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

20:001:004 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

20:001:005 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

20:001:006 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

20:001:007 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

20:001:008 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

20:001:009 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

20:001:010 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

20:001:011 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

20:001:012 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

20:001:013 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

20:001:014 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

20:001:015 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

20:001:016 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

20:001:017 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

20:001:018 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

20:001:019 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

20:001:020 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

20:001:021 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

20:001:022 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

20:001:023 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

20:001:024 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

20:001:025 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

20:001:026 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

20:001:027 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

20:001:028 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

20:001:029 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

20:001:030 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

20:001:031 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

20:001:032 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

20:001:033 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

20:002:001 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

20:002:002 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

20:002:003 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

20:002:004 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

20:002:005 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

20:002:006 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

20:002:007 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

20:002:008 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

20:002:009 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

20:002:010 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

20:002:011 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

20:002:012 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

20:002:013 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

20:002:014 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

20:002:015 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

20:002:016 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

20:002:017 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

20:002:018 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

20:002:019 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

20:002:020 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

20:002:021 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

20:002:022 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

20:003:001 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

20:003:002 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

20:003:003 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

20:003:004 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

20:003:005 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

20:003:006 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

20:003:007 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

20:003:008 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

20:003:009 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

20:003:010 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

20:003:011 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

20:003:012 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

20:003:013 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

20:003:014 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

20:003:015 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

20:003:016 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

20:003:017 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

20:003:018 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

20:003:019 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

20:003:020 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

20:003:021 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

20:003:022 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

20:003:023 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

20:003:024 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

20:003:025 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

20:003:026 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

20:003:027 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

20:003:028 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

20:003:029 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

20:003:030 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

20:003:031 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

20:003:032 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

20:003:033 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

20:003:034 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

20:003:035 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

20:004:001 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

20:004:002 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

20:004:003 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

20:004:004 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

20:004:005 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

20:004:006 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

20:004:007 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

20:004:008 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

20:004:009 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

20:004:010 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

20:004:011 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

20:004:012 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

20:004:013 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

20:004:014 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

20:004:015 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

20:004:016 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

20:004:017 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

20:004:018 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

20:004:019 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

20:004:020 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

20:004:021 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

20:004:022 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

20:004:023 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

20:004:024 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

20:004:025 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

20:004:026 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

20:004:027 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

20:005:001 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

20:005:002 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

20:005:003 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

20:005:004 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

20:005:005 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

20:005:006 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

20:005:007 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

20:005:008 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

20:005:009 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

20:005:010 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

20:005:011 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

20:005:012 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

20:005:013 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

20:005:014 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

20:005:015 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

20:005:016 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

20:005:017 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

20:005:018 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

20:005:019 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

20:005:020 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

20:005:021 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

20:005:022 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

20:005:023 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

20:006:001 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

20:006:002 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

20:006:003 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

20:006:004 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

20:006:005 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

20:006:006 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

20:006:007 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

20:006:008 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

20:006:009 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

20:006:010 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

20:006:011 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

20:006:012 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

20:006:013 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;

20:006:014 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

20:006:015 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

20:006:016 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

20:006:017 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

20:006:018 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

20:006:019 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

20:006:020 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

20:006:021 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

20:006:022 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

20:006:023 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

20:006:024 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

20:006:025 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

20:006:026 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.

20:006:027 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

20:006:028 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

20:006:029 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

20:006:030 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

20:006:031 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

20:006:032 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

20:006:033 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

20:006:034 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

20:006:035 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

20:007:001 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

20:007:002 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

20:007:003 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

20:007:004 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

20:007:005 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

20:007:006 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

20:007:007 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

20:007:008 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

20:007:009 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

20:007:010 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

20:007:011 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

20:007:012 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

20:007:013 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

20:007:014 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

20:007:015 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

20:007:016 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

20:007:017 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

20:007:018 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

20:007:019 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

20:007:020 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

20:007:021 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

20:007:022 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

20:007:023 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

20:007:024 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

20:007:025 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

20:007:026 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

20:007:027 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

20:008:001 Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

20:008:002 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

20:008:003 She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.

20:008:004 Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

20:008:005 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

20:008:006 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

20:008:007 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

20:008:008 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

20:008:009 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

20:008:010 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

20:008:011 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

20:008:012 I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

20:008:013 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

20:008:014 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

20:008:015 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

20:008:016 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

20:008:017 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

20:008:018 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

20:008:019 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

20:008:020 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

20:008:021 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

20:008:022 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

20:008:023 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

20:008:024 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

20:008:025 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

20:008:026 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

20:008:027 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

20:008:028 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

20:008:029 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

20:008:030 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

20:008:031 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

20:008:032 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

20:008:033 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

20:008:034 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

20:008:035 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.

20:008:036 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

20:009:001 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

20:009:002 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

20:009:003 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

20:009:004 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

20:009:005 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

20:009:006 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

20:009:007 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

20:009:008 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

20:009:009 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

20:009:010 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

20:009:011 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

20:009:012 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

20:009:013 A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

20:009:014 For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

20:009:015 To call passengers who go right on their ways:

20:009:016 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

20:009:017 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

20:009:018 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

20:010:001 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

20:010:002 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

20:010:003 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

20:010:004 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

20:010:005 He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

20:010:006 Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

20:010:007 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

20:010:008 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

20:010:009 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

20:010:010 He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

20:010:011 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

20:010:012 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

20:010:013 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

20:010:014 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

20:010:015 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

20:010:016 The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

20:010:017 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

20:010:018 He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

20:010:019 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

20:010:020 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

20:010:021 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

20:010:022 The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

20:010:023 It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

20:010:024 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

20:010:025 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

20:010:026 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

20:010:027 The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

20:010:028 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

20:010:029 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

20:010:030 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

20:010:031 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

20:010:032 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

20:011:001 A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

20:011:002 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

20:011:003 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

20:011:004 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

20:011:005 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

20:011:006 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

20:011:007 When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

20:011:008 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

20:011:009 An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

20:011:010 When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

20:011:011 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

20:011:012 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

20:011:013 A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

20:011:014 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

20:011:015 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.

20:011:016 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

20:011:017 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

20:011:018 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

20:011:019 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

20:011:020 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

20:011:021 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

20:011:022 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

20:011:023 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

20:011:024 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

20:011:025 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

20:011:026 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

20:011:027 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

20:011:028 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

20:011:029 He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

20:011:030 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

20:011:031 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

20:012:001 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

20:012:002 A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

20:012:003 A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

20:012:004 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

20:012:005 The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

20:012:006 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

20:012:007 The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

20:012:008 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

20:012:009 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

20:012:010 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

20:012:011 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

20:012:012 The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

20:012:013 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

20:012:014 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.

20:012:015 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

20:012:016 A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

20:012:017 He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

20:012:018 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

20:012:019 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

20:012:020 Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

20:012:021 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

20:012:022 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

20:012:023 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

20:012:024 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

20:012:025 Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

20:012:026 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

20:012:027 The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

20:012:028 In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

20:013:001 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

20:013:002 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

20:013:003 He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

20:013:004 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

20:013:005 A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

20:013:006 Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

20:013:007 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

20:013:008 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

20:013:009 The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

20:013:010 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

20:013:011 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

20:013:012 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

20:013:013 Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

20:013:014 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

20:013:015 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

20:013:016 Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

20:013:017 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

20:013:018 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

20:013:019 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

20:013:020 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

20:013:021 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

20:013:022 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

20:013:023 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

20:013:024 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

20:013:025 The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

20:014:001 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

20:014:002 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

20:014:003 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

20:014:004 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

20:014:005 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

20:014:006 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

20:014:007 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

20:014:008 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

20:014:009 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

20:014:010 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

20:014:011 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

20:014:012 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

20:014:013 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

20:014:014 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

20:014:015 The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

20:014:016 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

20:014:017 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

20:014:018 The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

20:014:019 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

20:014:020 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

20:014:021 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

20:014:022 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

20:014:023 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

20:014:024 The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

20:014:025 A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

20:014:026 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

20:014:027 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

20:014:028 In the multitude of people is the king's honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

20:014:029 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

20:014:030 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

20:014:031 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

20:014:032 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

20:014:033 Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

20:014:034 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

20:014:035 The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.

20:015:001 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

20:015:002 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

20:015:003 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

20:015:004 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

20:015:005 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

20:015:006 In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

20:015:007 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

20:015:008 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

20:015:009 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

20:015:010 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

20:015:011 Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

20:015:012 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

20:015:013 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

20:015:014 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

20:015:015 All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

20:015:016 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

20:015:017 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

20:015:018 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

20:015:019 The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

20:015:020 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

20:015:021 Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

20:015:022 Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

20:015:023 A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

20:015:024 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

20:015:025 The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

20:015:026 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

20:015:027 He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

20:015:028 The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

20:015:029 The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

20:015:030 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.

20:015:031 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

20:015:032 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

20:015:033 The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

20:016:001 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

20:016:002 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

20:016:003 Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

20:016:004 The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

20:016:005 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

20:016:006 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

20:016:007 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

20:016:008 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

20:016:009 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

20:016:010 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

20:016:011 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

20:016:012 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

20:016:013 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

20:016:014 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

20:016:015 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

20:016:016 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

20:016:017 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

20:016:018 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

20:016:019 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

20:016:020 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.

20:016:021 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

20:016:022 Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

20:016:023 The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

20:016:024 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

20:016:025 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

20:016:026 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

20:016:027 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

20:016:028 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

20:016:029 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

20:016:030 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

20:016:031 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

20:016:032 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

20:016:033 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

20:017:001 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

20:017:002 A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

20:017:003 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

20:017:004 A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

20:017:005 Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

20:017:006 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

20:017:007 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

20:017:008 A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

20:017:009 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

20:017:010 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

20:017:011 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

20:017:012 Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

20:017:013 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

20:017:014 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

20:017:015 He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

20:017:016 Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

20:017:017 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

20:017:018 A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

20:017:019 He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

20:017:020 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

20:017:021 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

20:017:022 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

20:017:023 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

20:017:024 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

20:017:025 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

20:017:026 Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

20:017:027 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

20:017:028 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

20:018:001 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

20:018:002 A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

20:018:003 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

20:018:004 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

20:018:005 It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

20:018:006 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

20:018:007 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

20:018:008 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

20:018:009 He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

20:018:010 The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

20:018:011 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

20:018:012 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

20:018:013 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

20:018:014 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

20:018:015 The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

20:018:016 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

20:018:017 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

20:018:018 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

20:018:019 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

20:018:020 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

20:018:021 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

20:018:022 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

20:018:023 The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

20:018:024 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

20:019:001 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

20:019:002 Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

20:019:003 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

20:019:004 Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

20:019:005 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

20:019:006 Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

20:019:007 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

20:019:008 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

20:019:009 A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

20:019:010 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

20:019:011 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

20:019:012 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

20:019:013 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

20:019:014 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

20:019:015 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

20:019:016 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

20:019:017 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

20:019:018 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

20:019:019 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

20:019:020 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

20:019:021 There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.

20:019:022 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

20:019:023 The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

20:019:024 A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

20:019:025 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

20:019:026 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

20:019:027 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

20:019:028 An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

20:019:029 Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

20:020:001 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

20:020:002 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

20:020:003 It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

20:020:004 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

20:020:005 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

20:020:006 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

20:020:007 The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

20:020:008 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

20:020:009 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

20:020:010 Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

20:020:011 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

20:020:012 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.

20:020:013 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

20:020:014 It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

20:020:015 There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

20:020:016 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

20:020:017 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

20:020:018 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

20:020:019 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

20:020:020 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

20:020:021 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

20:020:022 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

20:020:023 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

20:020:024 Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

20:020:025 It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

20:020:026 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.

20:020:027 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

20:020:028 Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.

20:020:029 The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.

20:020:030 The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

20:021:001 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

20:021:002 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

20:021:003 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

20:021:004 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

20:021:005 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

20:021:006 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

20:021:007 The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

20:021:008 The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

20:021:009 It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

20:021:010 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

20:021:011 When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

20:021:012 The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

20:021:013 Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

20:021:014 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

20:021:015 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

20:021:016 The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

20:021:017 He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

20:021:018 The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

20:021:019 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

20:021:020 There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.

20:021:021 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

20:021:022 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

20:021:023 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

20:021:024 Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

20:021:025 The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

20:021:026 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

20:021:027 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

20:021:028 A false witness shall perish: but the man that heareth speaketh constantly.

20:021:029 A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

20:021:030 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.

20:021:031 The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.

20:022:001 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

20:022:002 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

20:022:003 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

20:022:004 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.

20:022:005 Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

20:022:006 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

20:022:007 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

20:022:008 He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

20:022:009 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

20:022:010 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

20:022:011 He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

20:022:012 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

20:022:013 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

20:022:014 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

20:022:015 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

20:022:016 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

20:022:017 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

20:022:018 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

20:022:019 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

20:022:020 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

20:022:021 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

20:022:022 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

20:022:023 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

20:022:024 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

20:022:025 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

20:022:026 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

20:022:027 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

20:022:028 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

20:022:029 Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

20:023:001 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

20:023:002 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

20:023:003 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

20:023:004 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

20:023:005 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

20:023:006 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

20:023:007 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

20:023:008 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

20:023:009 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

20:023:010 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

20:023:011 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

20:023:012 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

20:023:013 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

20:023:014 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

20:023:015 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

20:023:016 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

20:023:017 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

20:023:018 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

20:023:019 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

20:023:020 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

20:023:021 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

20:023:022 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

20:023:023 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

20:023:024 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

20:023:025 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

20:023:026 My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

20:023:027 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

20:023:028 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.

20:023:029 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

20:023:030 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

20:023:031 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

20:023:032 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

20:023:033 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

20:023:034 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

20:023:035 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

20:024:001 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

20:024:002 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

20:024:003 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

20:024:004 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

20:024:005 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

20:024:006 For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

20:024:007 Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

20:024:008 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

20:024:009 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

20:024:010 If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

20:024:011 If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

20:024:012 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

20:024:013 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

20:024:014 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

20:024:015 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

20:024:016 For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

20:024:017 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

20:024:018 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

20:024:019 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked:

20:024:020 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.

20:024:021 My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:

20:024:022 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

20:024:023 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

20:024:024 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

20:024:025 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

20:024:026 Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.

20:024:027 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

20:024:028 Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

20:024:029 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

20:024:030 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

20:024:031 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

20:024:032 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

20:024:033 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

20:024:034 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

20:025:001 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

20:025:002 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

20:025:003 The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

20:025:004 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

20:025:005 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

20:025:006 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

20:025:007 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

20:025:008 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

20:025:009 Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:

20:025:010 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.

20:025:011 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

20:025:012 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

20:025:013 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

20:025:014 Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

20:025:015 By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

20:025:016 Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

20:025:017 Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

20:025:018 A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

20:025:019 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

20:025:020 As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

20:025:021 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

20:025:022 For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

20:025:023 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

20:025:024 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

20:025:025 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

20:025:026 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

20:025:027 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

20:025:028 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

20:026:001 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

20:026:002 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

20:026:003 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.

20:026:004 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

20:026:005 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

20:026:006 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

20:026:007 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

20:026:008 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

20:026:009 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouths of fools.

20:026:010 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

20:026:011 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

20:026:012 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

20:026:013 The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

20:026:014 As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

20:026:015 The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

20:026:016 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

20:026:017 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

20:026:018 As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

20:026:019 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

20:026:020 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

20:026:021 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

20:026:022 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

20:026:023 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

20:026:024 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

20:026:025 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

20:026:026 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

20:026:027 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

20:026:028 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

20:027:001 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

20:027:002 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

20:027:003 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

20:027:004 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

20:027:005 Open rebuke is better than secret love.

20:027:006 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

20:027:007 The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

20:027:008 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

20:027:009 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

20:027:010 Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

20:027:011 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

20:027:012 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

20:027:013 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

20:027:014 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

20:027:015 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

20:027:016 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

20:027:017 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

20:027:018 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

20:027:019 As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

20:027:020 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

20:027:021 As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.

20:027:022 Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

20:027:023 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

20:027:024 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

20:027:025 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

20:027:026 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

20:027:027 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

20:028:001 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

20:028:002 For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

20:028:003 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

20:028:004 They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

20:028:005 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

20:028:006 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

20:028:007 Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

20:028:008 He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

20:028:009 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

20:028:010 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

20:028:011 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

20:028:012 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

20:028:013 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

20:028:014 Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

20:028:015 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

20:028:016 The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

20:028:017 A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

20:028:018 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

20:028:019 He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

20:028:020 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

20:028:021 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

20:028:022 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

20:028:023 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

20:028:024 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

20:028:025 He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

20:028:026 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

20:028:027 He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.

20:028:028 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

20:029:001 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

20:029:002 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

20:029:003 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

20:029:004 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

20:029:005 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

20:029:006 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

20:029:007 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

20:029:008 Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

20:029:009 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

20:029:010 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

20:029:011 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

20:029:012 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

20:029:013 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

20:029:014 The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

20:029:015 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

20:029:016 When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

20:029:017 Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

20:029:018 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

20:029:019 A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

20:029:020 Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

20:029:021 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

20:029:022 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

20:029:023 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

20:029:024 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

20:029:025 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

20:029:026 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.

20:029:027 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

20:030:001 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

20:030:002 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

20:030:003 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

20:030:004 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

20:030:005 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

20:030:006 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

20:030:007 Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

20:030:008 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

20:030:009 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

20:030:010 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

20:030:011 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

20:030:012 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

20:030:013 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

20:030:014 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

20:030:015 The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

20:030:016 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

20:030:017 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

20:030:018 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

20:030:019 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

20:030:020 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

20:030:021 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

20:030:022 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

20:030:023 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

20:030:024 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

20:030:025 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

20:030:026 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

20:030:027 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

20:030:028 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.

20:030:029 There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

20:030:030 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any;

20:030:031 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

20:030:032 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

20:030:033 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

20:031:001 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

20:031:002 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

20:031:003 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

20:031:004 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

20:031:005 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

20:031:006 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

20:031:007 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

20:031:008 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

20:031:009 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

20:031:010 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

20:031:011 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

20:031:012 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

20:031:013 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

20:031:014 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

20:031:015 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

20:031:016 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

20:031:017 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

20:031:018 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

20:031:019 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

20:031:020 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

20:031:021 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

20:031:022 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

20:031:023 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

20:031:024 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

20:031:025 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

20:031:026 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

20:031:027 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

20:031:028 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

20:031:029 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

20:031:030 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

20:031:031 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Book 21 Ecclesiastes

21:001:001 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

21:001:002 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

21:001:003 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

21:001:004 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

21:001:005 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

21:001:006 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

21:001:007 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

21:001:008 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

21:001:009 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

21:001:010 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

21:001:011 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

21:001:012 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

21:001:013 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

21:001:014 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

21:001:015 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

21:001:016 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

21:001:017 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

21:001:018 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

21:002:001 I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

21:002:002 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?

21:002:003 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

21:002:004 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

21:002:005 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

21:002:006 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:

21:002:007 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

21:002:008 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

21:002:009 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

21:002:010 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

21:002:011 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

21:002:012 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

21:002:013 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

21:002:014 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

21:002:015 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

21:002:016 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

21:002:017 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

21:002:018 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

21:002:019 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

21:002:020 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

21:002:021 For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

21:002:022 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

21:002:023 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

21:002:024 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

21:002:025 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

21:002:026 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

21:003:001 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

21:003:002 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

21:003:003 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

21:003:004 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

21:003:005 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

21:003:006 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

21:003:007 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

21:003:008 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

21:003:009 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

21:003:010 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

21:003:011 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

21:003:012 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

21:003:013 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

21:003:014 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

21:003:015 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

21:003:016 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

21:003:017 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

21:003:018 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

21:003:019 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

21:003:020 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

21:003:021 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

21:003:022 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

21:004:001 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

21:004:002 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

21:004:003 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

21:004:004 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

21:004:005 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

21:004:006 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

21:004:007 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

21:004:008 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

21:004:009 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

21:004:010 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

21:004:011 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

21:004:012 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

21:004:013 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

21:004:014 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

21:004:015 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

21:004:016 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

21:005:001 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

21:005:002 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

21:005:003 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

21:005:004 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

21:005:005 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

21:005:006 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

21:005:007 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

21:005:008 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

21:005:009 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

21:005:010 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

21:005:011 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

21:005:012 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

21:005:013 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

21:005:014 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

21:005:015 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

21:005:016 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

21:005:017 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

21:005:018 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

21:005:019 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

21:005:020 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

21:006:001 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

21:006:002 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

21:006:003 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

21:006:004 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

21:006:005 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

21:006:006 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

21:006:007 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

21:006:008 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

21:006:009 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

21:006:010 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

21:006:011 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

21:006:012 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

21:007:001 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

21:007:002 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

21:007:003 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

21:007:004 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

21:007:005 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

21:007:006 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

21:007:007 Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

21:007:008 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

21:007:009 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

21:007:010 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

21:007:011 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.

21:007:012 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

21:007:013 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

21:007:014 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

21:007:015 All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.

21:007:016 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

21:007:017 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

21:007:018 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

21:007:019 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

21:007:020 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

21:007:021 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

21:007:022 For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

21:007:023 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

21:007:024 That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?

21:007:025 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

21:007:026 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

21:007:027 Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

21:007:028 Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

21:007:029 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

21:008:001 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

21:008:002 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

21:008:003 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

21:008:004 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

21:008:005 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

21:008:006 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

21:008:007 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

21:008:008 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

21:008:009 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

21:008:010 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

21:008:011 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

21:008:012 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

21:008:013 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

21:008:014 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

21:008:015 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

21:008:016 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

21:008:017 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

21:009:001 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

21:009:002 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

21:009:003 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

21:009:004 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

21:009:005 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

21:009:006 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

21:009:007 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

21:009:008 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

21:009:009 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

21:009:010 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

21:009:011 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

21:009:012 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

21:009:013 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

21:009:014 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

21:009:015 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

21:009:016 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

21:009:017 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

21:009:018 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

21:010:001 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

21:010:002 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

21:010:003 Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

21:010:004 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

21:010:005 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

21:010:006 Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

21:010:007 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.

21:010:008 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

21:010:009 Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

21:010:010 If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

21:010:011 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

21:010:012 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

21:010:013 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

21:010:014 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

21:010:015 The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

21:010:016 Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

21:010:017 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

21:010:018 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

21:010:019 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

21:010:020 Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

21:011:001 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

21:011:002 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

21:011:003 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

21:011:004 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

21:011:005 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

21:011:006 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

21:011:007 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

21:011:008 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

21:011:009 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

21:011:010 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

21:012:001 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

21:012:002 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

21:012:003 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

21:012:004 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;

21:012:005 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

21:012:006 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

21:012:007 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

21:012:008 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

21:012:009 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

21:012:010 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.

21:012:011 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

21:012:012 And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

21:012:013 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

21:012:014 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Book 22 Song of Solomon

22:001:001 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

22:001:002 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

22:001:003 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

22:001:004 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

22:001:005 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

22:001:006 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

22:001:007 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

22:001:008 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.

22:001:009 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

22:001:010 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.

22:001:011 We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.

22:001:012 While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

22:001:013 A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

22:001:014 My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

22:001:015 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

22:001:016 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

22:001:017 The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

22:002:001 I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

22:002:002 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

22:002:003 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

22:002:004 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

22:002:005 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

22:002:006 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

22:002:007 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

22:002:008 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

22:002:009 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

22:002:010 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

22:002:011 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

22:002:012 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

22:002:013 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

22:002:014 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

22:002:015 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

22:002:016 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

22:002:017 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

22:003:001 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

22:003:002 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

22:003:003 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

22:003:004 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

22:003:005 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

22:003:006 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

22:003:007 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

22:003:008 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

22:003:009 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

22:003:010 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

22:003:011 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

22:004:001 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

22:004:002 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

22:004:003 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

22:004:004 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

22:004:005 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

22:004:006 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

22:004:007 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

22:004:008 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

22:004:009 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

22:004:010 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

22:004:011 Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

22:004:012 A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

22:004:013 Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

22:004:014 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

22:004:015 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

22:004:016 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

22:005:001 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

22:005:002 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

22:005:003 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

22:005:004 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

22:005:005 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

22:005:006 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

22:005:007 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

22:005:008 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

22:005:009 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

22:005:010 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

22:005:011 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

22:005:012 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

22:005:013 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

22:005:014 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

22:005:015 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

22:005:016 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

22:006:001 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

22:006:002 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

22:006:003 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

22:006:004 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

22:006:005 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

22:006:006 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

22:006:007 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

22:006:008 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

22:006:009 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

22:006:010 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

22:006:011 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates budded.

22:006:012 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

22:006:013 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

22:007:001 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

22:007:002 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

22:007:003 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

22:007:004 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

22:007:005 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

22:007:006 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

22:007:007 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

22:007:008 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

22:007:009 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

22:007:010 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

22:007:011 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

22:007:012 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

22:007:013 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

22:008:001 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

22:008:002 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

22:008:003 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

22:008:004 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

22:008:005 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

22:008:006 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

22:008:007 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

22:008:008 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

22:008:009 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

22:008:010 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

22:008:011 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

22:008:012 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

22:008:013 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

22:008:014 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Book 23 Isaiah

23:001:001 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

23:001:002 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

23:001:003 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

23:001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

23:001:005 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

23:001:006 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

23:001:007 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

23:001:008 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

23:001:009 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

23:001:010 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

23:001:011 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

23:001:012 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

23:001:013 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

23:001:014 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

23:001:015 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

23:001:016 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

23:001:017 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

23:001:018 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

23:001:019 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

23:001:020 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

23:001:021 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

23:001:022 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

23:001:023 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

23:001:024 Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

23:001:025 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

23:001:026 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

23:001:027 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

23:001:028 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

23:001:029 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

23:001:030 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

23:001:031 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

23:002:001 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

23:002:002 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.

23:002:003 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

23:002:004 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

23:002:005 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

23:002:006 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

23:002:007 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:

23:002:008 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

23:002:009 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

23:002:010 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.

23:002:011 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

23:002:012 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

23:002:013 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

23:002:014 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

23:002:015 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

23:002:016 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

23:002:017 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

23:002:018 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

23:002:019 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

23:002:020 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

23:002:021 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

23:002:022 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

23:003:001 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.

23:003:002 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

23:003:003 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

23:003:004 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

23:003:005 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

23:003:006 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

23:003:007 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

23:003:008 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

23:003:009 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

23:003:010 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

23:003:011 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

23:003:012 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

23:003:013 The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

23:003:014 The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

23:003:015 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

23:003:016 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

23:003:017 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

23:003:018 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

23:003:019 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

23:003:020 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

23:003:021 The rings, and nose jewels,

23:003:022 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

23:003:023 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

23:003:024 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

23:003:025 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

23:003:026 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

23:004:001 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

23:004:002 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

23:004:003 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

23:004:004 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

23:004:005 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

23:004:006 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

23:005:001 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

23:005:002 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

23:005:003 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

23:005:004 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

23:005:005 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

23:005:006 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

23:005:007 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

23:005:008 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

23:005:009 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

23:005:010 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

23:005:011 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

23:005:012 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

23:005:013 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

23:005:014 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

23:005:015 And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

23:005:016 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

23:005:017 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

23:005:018 Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

23:005:019 That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

23:005:020 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

23:005:021 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

23:005:022 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

23:005:023 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

23:005:024 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

23:005:025 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:005:026 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth: and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly:

23:005:027 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

23:005:028 Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

23:005:029 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

23:005:030 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

23:006:001 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

23:006:002 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

23:006:003 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

23:006:004 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

23:006:005 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

23:006:006 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

23:006:007 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

23:006:008 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

23:006:009 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

23:006:010 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

23:006:011 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

23:006:012 And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

23:006:013 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.

23:007:001 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

23:007:002 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

23:007:003 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;

23:007:004 And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

23:007:005 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

23:007:006 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:

23:007:007 Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

23:007:008 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

23:007:009 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

23:007:010 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,

23:007:011 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

23:007:012 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.

23:007:013 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?

23:007:014 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

23:007:015 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

23:007:016 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

23:007:017 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

23:007:018 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

23:007:019 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

23:007:020 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

23:007:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

23:007:022 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

23:007:023 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

23:007:024 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

23:007:025 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

23:008:001 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

23:008:002 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

23:008:003 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

23:008:004 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

23:008:005 The LORD spake also unto me again, saying,

23:008:006 Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

23:008:007 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

23:008:008 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

23:008:009 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.

23:008:010 Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

23:008:011 For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

23:008:012 Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.

23:008:013 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

23:008:014 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

23:008:015 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

23:008:016 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

23:008:017 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

23:008:018 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

23:008:019 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

23:008:020 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

23:008:021 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

23:008:022 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

23:009:001 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

23:009:002 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

23:009:003 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

23:009:004 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

23:009:005 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

23:009:006 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

23:009:007 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

23:009:008 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

23:009:009 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

23:009:010 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

23:009:011 Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;

23:009:012 The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:009:013 For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

23:009:014 Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

23:009:015 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

23:009:016 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

23:009:017 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:009:018 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

23:009:019 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

23:009:020 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

23:009:021 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:010:001 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

23:010:002 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

23:010:003 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

23:010:004 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

23:010:005 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

23:010:006 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

23:010:007 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

23:010:008 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

23:010:009 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

23:010:010 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

23:010:011 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

23:010:012 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

23:010:013 For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

23:010:014 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

23:010:015 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

23:010:016 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

23:010:017 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

23:010:018 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

23:010:019 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

23:010:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

23:010:021 The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

23:010:022 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

23:010:023 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.

23:010:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

23:010:025 For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

23:010:026 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

23:010:027 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

23:010:028 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

23:010:029 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

23:010:030 Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

23:010:031 Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee.

23:010:032 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

23:010:033 Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.

23:010:034 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

23:011:001 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

23:011:002 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

23:011:003 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

23:011:004 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

23:011:005 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

23:011:006 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

23:011:007 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

23:011:008 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

23:011:009 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

23:011:010 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

23:011:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

23:011:012 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

23:011:013 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

23:011:014 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

23:011:015 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

23:011:016 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

23:012:001 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

23:012:002 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

23:012:003 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

23:012:004 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

23:012:005 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

23:012:006 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

23:013:001 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

23:013:002 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

23:013:003 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

23:013:004 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

23:013:005 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

23:013:006 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

23:013:007 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

23:013:008 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

23:013:009 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

23:013:010 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

23:013:011 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

23:013:012 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

23:013:013 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

23:013:014 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

23:013:015 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

23:013:016 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

23:013:017 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

23:013:018 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

23:013:019 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

23:013:020 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

23:013:021 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

23:013:022 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

23:014:001 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

23:014:002 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

23:014:003 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

23:014:004 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

23:014:005 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

23:014:006 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

23:014:007 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

23:014:008 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

23:014:009 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

23:014:010 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

23:014:011 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

23:014:012 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

23:014:013 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

23:014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

23:014:015 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

23:014:016 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

23:014:017 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

23:014:018 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

23:014:019 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

23:014:020 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

23:014:021 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

23:014:022 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.

23:014:023 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

23:014:024 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

23:014:025 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

23:014:026 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

23:014:027 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

23:014:028 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

23:014:029 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

23:014:030 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

23:014:031 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

23:014:032 What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

23:015:001 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

23:015:002 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

23:015:003 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

23:015:004 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

23:015:005 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

23:015:006 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

23:015:007 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

23:015:008 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.

23:015:009 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

23:016:001 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

23:016:002 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

23:016:003 Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

23:016:004 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

23:016:005 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

23:016:006 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

23:016:007 Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

23:016:008 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

23:016:009 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

23:016:010 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

23:016:011 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

23:016:012 And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

23:016:013 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

23:016:014 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

23:017:001 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

23:017:002 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

23:017:003 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

23:017:004 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

23:017:005 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

23:017:006 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.

23:017:007 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

23:017:008 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

23:017:009 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

23:017:010 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

23:017:011 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

23:017:012 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

23:017:013 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

23:017:014 And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

23:018:001 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:

23:018:002 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

23:018:003 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

23:018:004 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

23:018:005 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

23:018:006 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

23:018:007 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

23:019:001 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

23:019:002 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

23:019:003 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

23:019:004 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

23:019:005 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

23:019:006 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

23:019:007 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

23:019:008 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

23:019:009 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

23:019:010 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

23:019:011 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

23:019:012 Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

23:019:013 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

23:019:014 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

23:019:015 Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

23:019:016 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

23:019:017 And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

23:019:018 In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

23:019:019 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

23:019:020 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

23:019:021 And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.

23:019:022 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

23:019:023 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

23:019:024 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

23:019:025 Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

23:020:001 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

23:020:002 At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

23:020:003 And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

23:020:004 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

23:020:005 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

23:020:006 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?

23:021:001 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

23:021:002 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

23:021:003 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

23:021:004 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

23:021:005 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

23:021:006 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

23:021:007 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

23:021:008 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

23:021:009 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

23:021:010 O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

23:021:011 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

23:021:012 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

23:021:013 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

23:021:014 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

23:021:015 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

23:021:016 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

23:021:017 And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

23:022:001 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

23:022:002 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

23:022:003 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

23:022:004 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

23:022:005 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

23:022:006 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

23:022:007 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

23:022:008 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

23:022:009 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

23:022:010 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

23:022:011 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

23:022:012 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

23:022:013 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

23:022:014 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

23:022:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

23:022:016 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

23:022:017 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

23:022:018 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

23:022:019 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

23:022:020 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

23:022:021 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

23:022:022 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23:022:023 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

23:022:024 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

23:022:025 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

23:023:001 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

23:023:002 Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

23:023:003 And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

23:023:004 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

23:023:005 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

23:023:006 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

23:023:007 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

23:023:008 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

23:023:009 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

23:023:010 Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

23:023:011 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

23:023:012 And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

23:023:013 Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.

23:023:014 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

23:023:015 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

23:023:016 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

23:023:017 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

23:023:018 And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

23:024:001 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

23:024:002 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

23:024:003 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.

23:024:004 The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

23:024:005 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

23:024:006 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

23:024:007 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

23:024:008 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

23:024:009 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

23:024:010 The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

23:024:011 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

23:024:012 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

23:024:013 When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.

23:024:014 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.

23:024:015 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.

23:024:016 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

23:024:017 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

23:024:018 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

23:024:019 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

23:024:020 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

23:024:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

23:024:022 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

23:024:023 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

23:025:001 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

23:025:002 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

23:025:003 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

23:025:004 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

23:025:005 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

23:025:006 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

23:025:007 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

23:025:008 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

23:025:009 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

23:025:010 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

23:025:011 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

23:025:012 And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

23:026:001 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

23:026:002 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

23:026:003 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

23:026:004 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:

23:026:005 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

23:026:006 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

23:026:007 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

23:026:008 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

23:026:009 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

23:026:010 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

23:026:011 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

23:026:012 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

23:026:013 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

23:026:014 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

23:026:015 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.

23:026:016 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

23:026:017 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

23:026:018 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

23:026:019 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

23:026:020 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

23:026:021 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

23:027:001 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

23:027:002 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.

23:027:003 I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

23:027:004 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

23:027:005 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.

23:027:006 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

23:027:007 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?

23:027:008 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

23:027:009 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

23:027:010 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

23:027:011 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

23:027:012 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

23:027:013 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

23:028:001 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

23:028:002 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

23:028:003 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

23:028:004 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

23:028:005 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

23:028:006 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

23:028:007 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

23:028:008 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

23:028:009 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

23:028:010 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

23:028:011 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

23:028:012 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

23:028:013 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

23:028:014 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

23:028:015 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

23:028:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

23:028:017 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

23:028:018 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

23:028:019 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

23:028:020 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

23:028:021 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

23:028:022 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

23:028:023 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

23:028:024 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

23:028:025 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

23:028:026 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

23:028:027 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

23:028:028 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

23:028:029 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

23:029:001 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

23:029:002 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.

23:029:003 And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

23:029:004 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

23:029:005 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

23:029:006 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

23:029:007 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

23:029:008 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

23:029:009 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

23:029:010 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

23:029:011 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

23:029:012 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

23:029:013 Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

23:029:014 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

23:029:015 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

23:029:016 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

23:029:017 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

23:029:018 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

23:029:019 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

23:029:020 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

23:029:021 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

23:029:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

23:029:023 But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.

23:029:024 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

23:030:001 Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

23:030:002 That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

23:030:003 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

23:030:004 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

23:030:005 They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

23:030:006 The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

23:030:007 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

23:030:008 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

23:030:009 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

23:030:010 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

23:030:011 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

23:030:012 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

23:030:013 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

23:030:014 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

23:030:015 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

23:030:016 But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

23:030:017 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

23:030:018 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

23:030:019 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

23:030:020 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

23:030:021 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

23:030:022 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

23:030:023 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

23:030:024 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

23:030:025 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

23:030:026 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

23:030:027 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

23:030:028 And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

23:030:029 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

23:030:030 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

23:030:031 For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

23:030:032 And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

23:030:033 For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

23:031:001 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

23:031:002 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

23:031:003 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

23:031:004 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

23:031:005 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

23:031:006 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

23:031:007 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

23:031:008 Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

23:031:009 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

23:032:001 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

23:032:002 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

23:032:003 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

23:032:004 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

23:032:005 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

23:032:006 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

23:032:007 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

23:032:008 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

23:032:009 Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

23:032:010 Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

23:032:011 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

23:032:012 They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

23:032:013 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

23:032:014 Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

23:032:015 Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

23:032:016 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

23:032:017 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

23:032:018 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

23:032:019 When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

23:032:020 Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

23:033:001 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

23:033:002 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

23:033:003 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself the nations were scattered.

23:033:004 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.

23:033:005 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

23:033:006 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

23:033:007 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

23:033:008 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

23:033:009 The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

23:033:010 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

23:033:011 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

23:033:012 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

23:033:013 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

23:033:014 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

23:033:015 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

23:033:016 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

23:033:017 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

23:033:018 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

23:033:019 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

23:033:020 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

23:033:021 But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

23:033:022 For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.

23:033:023 Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

23:033:024 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.

23:034:001 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

23:034:002 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

23:034:003 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

23:034:004 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

23:034:005 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

23:034:006 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

23:034:007 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

23:034:008 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

23:034:009 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

23:034:010 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

23:034:011 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

23:034:012 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

23:034:013 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

23:034:014 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

23:034:015 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

23:034:016 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

23:034:017 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

23:035:001 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

23:035:002 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

23:035:003 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

23:035:004 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

23:035:005 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

23:035:006 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

23:035:007 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

23:035:008 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

23:035:009 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

23:035:010 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

23:036:001 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.

23:036:002 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

23:036:003 Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

23:036:004 And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

23:036:005 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

23:036:006 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

23:036:007 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

23:036:008 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

23:036:009 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

23:036:010 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

23:036:011 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

23:036:012 But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

23:036:013 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

23:036:014 Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.

23:036:015 Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

23:036:016 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

23:036:017 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

23:036:018 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

23:036:019 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

23:036:020 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

23:036:021 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

23:036:022 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

23:037:001 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

23:037:002 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

23:037:003 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

23:037:004 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

23:037:005 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

23:037:006 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

23:037:007 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

23:037:008 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

23:037:009 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

23:037:010 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

23:037:011 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?

23:037:012 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?

23:037:013 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

23:037:014 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

23:037:015 And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,

23:037:016 O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

23:037:017 Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

23:037:018 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

23:037:019 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

23:037:020 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

23:037:021 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

23:037:022 This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

23:037:023 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

23:037:024 By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

23:037:025 I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

23:037:026 Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

23:037:027 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

23:037:028 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

23:037:029 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

23:037:030 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

23:037:031 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

23:037:032 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

23:037:033 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.

23:037:034 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

23:037:035 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

23:037:036 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

23:037:037 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

23:037:038 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

23:038:001 In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

23:038:002 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

23:038:003 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

23:038:004 Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,

23:038:005 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

23:038:006 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

23:038:007 And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken;

23:038:008 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

23:038:009 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

23:038:010 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

23:038:011 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

23:038:012 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

23:038:013 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

23:038:014 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

23:038:015 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

23:038:016 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

23:038:017 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

23:038:018 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

23:038:019 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

23:038:020 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

23:038:021 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

23:038:022 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?

23:039:001 At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

23:039:002 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

23:039:003 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon.

23:039:004 Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

23:039:005 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:

23:039:006 Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.

23:039:007 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

23:039:008 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

23:040:001 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

23:040:002 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

23:040:003 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

23:040:004 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

23:040:005 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

23:040:006 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

23:040:007 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

23:040:008 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

23:040:009 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

23:040:010 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

23:040:011 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

23:040:012 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

23:040:013 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

23:040:014 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

23:040:015 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

23:040:016 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

23:040:017 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

23:040:018 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

23:040:019 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

23:040:020 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

23:040:021 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

23:040:022 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

23:040:023 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

23:040:024 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

23:040:025 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

23:040:026 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

23:040:027 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

23:040:028 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

23:040:029 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

23:040:030 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

23:040:031 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

23:041:001 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.

23:041:002 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

23:041:003 He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

23:041:004 Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

23:041:005 The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

23:041:006 They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

23:041:007 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

23:041:008 But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

23:041:009 Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

23:041:010 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

23:041:011 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

23:041:012 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

23:041:013 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

23:041:014 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

23:041:015 Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

23:041:016 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

23:041:017 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

23:041:018 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

23:041:019 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

23:041:020 That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

23:041:021 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

23:041:022 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

23:041:023 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

23:041:024 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.

23:041:025 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.

23:041:026 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.

23:041:027 The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

23:041:028 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

23:041:029 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

23:042:001 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

23:042:002 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

23:042:003 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

23:042:004 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

23:042:005 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

23:042:006 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

23:042:007 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

23:042:008 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

23:042:009 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

23:042:010 Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

23:042:011 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

23:042:012 Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.

23:042:013 The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.

23:042:014 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

23:042:015 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

23:042:016 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

23:042:017 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

23:042:018 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

23:042:019 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant?

23:042:020 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

23:042:021 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

23:042:022 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

23:042:023 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

23:042:024 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

23:042:025 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

23:043:001 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

23:043:002 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

23:043:003 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

23:043:004 Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

23:043:005 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;

23:043:006 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

23:043:007 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

23:043:008 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

23:043:009 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

23:043:010 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

23:043:011 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

23:043:012 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

23:043:013 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

23:043:014 Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

23:043:015 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.

23:043:016 Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

23:043:017 Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

23:043:018 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

23:043:019 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

23:043:020 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

23:043:021 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

23:043:022 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

23:043:023 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

23:043:024 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

23:043:025 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

23:043:026 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

23:043:027 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

23:043:028 Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

23:044:001 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

23:044:002 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

23:044:003 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

23:044:004 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

23:044:005 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

23:044:006 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

23:044:007 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.

23:044:008 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

23:044:009 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

23:044:010 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

23:044:011 Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

23:044:012 The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

23:044:013 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

23:044:014 He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

23:044:015 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

23:044:016 He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

23:044:017 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.

23:044:018 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

23:044:019 And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

23:044:020 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

23:044:021 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

23:044:022 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

23:044:023 Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

23:044:024 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

23:044:025 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

23:044:026 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

23:044:027 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

23:044:028 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

23:045:001 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

23:045:002 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

23:045:003 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

23:045:004 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

23:045:005 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

23:045:006 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

23:045:007 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

23:045:008 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

23:045:009 Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

23:045:010 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

23:045:011 Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

23:045:012 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

23:045:013 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

23:045:014 Thus saith the LORD, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

23:045:015 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

23:045:016 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

23:045:017 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

23:045:018 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

23:045:019 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

23:045:020 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

23:045:021 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

23:045:022 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

23:045:023 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

23:045:024 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

23:045:025 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

23:046:001 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

23:046:002 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

23:046:003 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

23:046:004 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

23:046:005 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

23:046:006 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

23:046:007 They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

23:046:008 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.

23:046:009 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

23:046:010 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

23:046:011 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

23:046:012 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

23:046:013 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

23:047:001 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

23:047:002 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

23:047:003 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

23:047:004 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

23:047:005 Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.

23:047:006 I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

23:047:007 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

23:047:008 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

23:047:009 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

23:047:010 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

23:047:011 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

23:047:012 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

23:047:013 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

23:047:014 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

23:047:015 Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee.

23:048:001 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

23:048:002 For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

23:048:003 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

23:048:004 Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

23:048:005 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

23:048:006 Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

23:048:007 They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

23:048:008 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

23:048:009 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

23:048:010 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

23:048:011 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

23:048:012 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.

23:048:013 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

23:048:014 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

23:048:015 I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

23:048:016 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

23:048:017 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

23:048:018 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

23:048:019 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

23:048:020 Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye, The LORD hath redeemed his servant Jacob.

23:048:021 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

23:048:022 There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

23:049:001 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

23:049:002 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

23:049:003 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

23:049:004 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.

23:049:005 And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength.

23:049:006 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

23:049:007 Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

23:049:008 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

23:049:009 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

23:049:010 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

23:049:011 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

23:049:012 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

23:049:013 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

23:049:014 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

23:049:015 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

23:049:016 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

23:049:017 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.

23:049:018 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

23:049:019 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

23:049:020 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

23:049:021 Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

23:049:022 Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

23:049:023 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

23:049:024 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

23:049:025 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

23:049:026 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

23:050:001 Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

23:050:002 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

23:050:003 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

23:050:004 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

23:050:005 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

23:050:006 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

23:050:007 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

23:050:008 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

23:050:009 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

23:050:010 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

23:050:011 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

23:051:001 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

23:051:002 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

23:051:003 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

23:051:004 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

23:051:005 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

23:051:006 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

23:051:007 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

23:051:008 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

23:051:009 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

23:051:010 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

23:051:011 Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

23:051:012 I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

23:051:013 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

23:051:014 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

23:051:015 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.

23:051:016 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

23:051:017 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

23:051:018 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

23:051:019 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

23:051:020 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

23:051:021 Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

23:051:022 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

23:051:023 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

23:052:001 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

23:052:002 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

23:052:003 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

23:052:004 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

23:052:005 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

23:052:006 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

23:052:007 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

23:052:008 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

23:052:009 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

23:052:010 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

23:052:011 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

23:052:012 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

23:052:013 Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

23:052:014 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

23:052:015 So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

23:053:001 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?

23:053:002 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

23:053:003 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

23:053:004 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

23:053:005 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

23:053:006 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

23:053:007 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

23:053:008 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

23:053:009 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

23:053:010 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

23:053:011 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

23:053:012 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

23:054:001 Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

23:054:002 Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

23:054:003 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

23:054:004 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

23:054:005 For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

23:054:006 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

23:054:007 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

23:054:008 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

23:054:009 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

23:054:010 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

23:054:011 O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

23:054:012 And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

23:054:013 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

23:054:014 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

23:054:015 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

23:054:016 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

23:054:017 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

23:055:001 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

23:055:002 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

23:055:003 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

23:055:004 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

23:055:005 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

23:055:006 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

23:055:007 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

23:055:008 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

23:055:009 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

23:055:010 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

23:055:011 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

23:055:012 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

23:055:013 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

23:056:001 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

23:056:002 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

23:056:003 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

23:056:004 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;

23:056:005 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

23:056:006 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

23:056:007 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

23:056:008 The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

23:056:009 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

23:056:010 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

23:056:011 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

23:056:012 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

23:057:001 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

23:057:002 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

23:057:003 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

23:057:004 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood.

23:057:005 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

23:057:006 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

23:057:007 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

23:057:008 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

23:057:009 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

23:057:010 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

23:057:011 And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

23:057:012 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

23:057:013 When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

23:057:014 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

23:057:015 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

23:057:016 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

23:057:017 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

23:057:018 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

23:057:019 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

23:057:020 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

23:057:021 There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

23:058:001 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

23:058:002 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

23:058:003 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

23:058:004 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

23:058:005 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

23:058:006 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

23:058:007 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

23:058:008 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

23:058:009 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

23:058:010 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:

23:058:011 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

23:058:012 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

23:058:013 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

23:058:014 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

23:059:001 Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

23:059:002 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

23:059:003 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

23:059:004 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

23:059:005 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

23:059:006 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

23:059:007 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

23:059:008 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

23:059:009 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

23:059:010 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

23:059:011 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

23:059:012 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

23:059:013 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

23:059:014 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

23:059:015 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

23:059:016 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

23:059:017 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

23:059:018 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

23:059:019 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

23:059:020 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

23:059:021 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

23:060:001 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

23:060:002 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

23:060:003 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

23:060:004 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

23:060:005 Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

23:060:006 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.

23:060:007 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

23:060:008 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

23:060:009 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

23:060:010 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

23:060:011 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

23:060:012 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

23:060:013 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

23:060:014 The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

23:060:015 Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

23:060:016 Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

23:060:017 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

23:060:018 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

23:060:019 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

23:060:020 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

23:060:021 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

23:060:022 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

23:061:001 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

23:061:002 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

23:061:003 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

23:061:004 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

23:061:005 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

23:061:006 But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

23:061:007 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

23:061:008 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

23:061:009 And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.

23:061:010 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

23:061:011 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

23:062:001 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

23:062:002 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.

23:062:003 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

23:062:004 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

23:062:005 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

23:062:006 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

23:062:007 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

23:062:008 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

23:062:009 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

23:062:010 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

23:062:011 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

23:062:012 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

23:063:001 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

23:063:002 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

23:063:003 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

23:063:004 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.

23:063:005 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

23:063:006 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

23:063:007 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

23:063:008 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

23:063:009 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

23:063:010 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

23:063:011 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

23:063:012 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

23:063:013 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

23:063:014 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

23:063:015 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

23:063:016 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

23:063:017 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

23:063:018 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

23:063:019 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

23:064:001 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

23:064:002 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

23:064:003 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

23:064:004 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

23:064:005 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

23:064:006 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

23:064:007 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

23:064:008 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

23:064:009 Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

23:064:010 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

23:064:011 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

23:064:012 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

23:065:001 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

23:065:002 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

23:065:003 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

23:065:004 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

23:065:005 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

23:065:006 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

23:065:007 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

23:065:008 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

23:065:009 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

23:065:010 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

23:065:011 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

23:065:012 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

23:065:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

23:065:014 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.

23:065:015 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

23:065:016 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

23:065:017 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

23:065:018 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

23:065:019 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

23:065:020 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

23:065:021 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

23:065:022 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

23:065:023 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

23:065:024 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

23:065:025 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

23:066:001 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

23:066:002 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

23:066:003 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

23:066:004 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

23:066:005 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

23:066:006 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.

23:066:007 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

23:066:008 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

23:066:009 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

23:066:010 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

23:066:011 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

23:066:012 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

23:066:013 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

23:066:014 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

23:066:015 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

23:066:016 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

23:066:017 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

23:066:018 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

23:066:019 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

23:066:020 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

23:066:021 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.

23:066:022 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

23:066:023 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

23:066:024 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Book 24 Jeremiah

24:001:001 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

24:001:002 To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

24:001:003 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

24:001:004 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:001:005 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

24:001:006 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

24:001:007 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.

24:001:008 Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

24:001:009 Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

24:001:010 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

24:001:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

24:001:012 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

24:001:013 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

24:001:014 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

24:001:015 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

24:001:016 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

24:001:017 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

24:001:018 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

24:001:019 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

24:002:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

24:002:002 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

24:002:003 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

24:002:004 Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

24:002:005 Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

24:002:006 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

24:002:007 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

24:002:008 The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

24:002:009 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

24:002:010 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

24:002:011 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

24:002:012 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.

24:002:013 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

24:002:014 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?

24:002:015 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

24:002:016 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

24:002:017 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?

24:002:018 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

24:002:019 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

24:002:020 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

24:002:021 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

24:002:022 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

24:002:023 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

24:002:024 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

24:002:025 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

24:002:026 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.

24:002:027 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

24:002:028 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

24:002:029 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

24:002:030 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

24:002:031 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

24:002:032 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

24:002:033 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

24:002:034 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

24:002:035 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

24:002:036 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

24:002:037 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

24:003:001 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

24:003:002 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

24:003:003 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

24:003:004 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

24:003:005 Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

24:003:006 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

24:003:007 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

24:003:008 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

24:003:009 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

24:003:010 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.

24:003:011 And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

24:003:012 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.

24:003:013 Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

24:003:014 Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

24:003:015 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

24:003:016 And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

24:003:017 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

24:003:018 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

24:003:019 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

24:003:020 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

24:003:021 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

24:003:022 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.

24:003:023 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.

24:003:024 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

24:003:025 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.

24:004:001 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

24:004:002 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

24:004:003 For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

24:004:004 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

24:004:005 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

24:004:006 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

24:004:007 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

24:004:008 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

24:004:009 And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

24:004:010 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

24:004:011 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

24:004:012 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

24:004:013 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

24:004:014 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

24:004:015 For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

24:004:016 Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

24:004:017 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD.

24:004:018 Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

24:004:019 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

24:004:020 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

24:004:021 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

24:004:022 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

24:004:023 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

24:004:024 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

24:004:025 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

24:004:026 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

24:004:027 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

24:004:028 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

24:004:029 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.

24:004:030 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

24:004:031 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

24:005:001 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

24:005:002 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

24:005:003 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

24:005:004 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

24:005:005 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

24:005:006 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

24:005:007 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

24:005:008 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

24:005:009 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

24:005:010 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.

24:005:011 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

24:005:012 They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

24:005:013 And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

24:005:014 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

24:005:015 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

24:005:016 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

24:005:017 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

24:005:018 Nevertheless in those days, saith the LORD, I will not make a full end with you.

24:005:019 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.

24:005:020 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

24:005:021 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

24:005:022 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

24:005:023 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.

24:005:024 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

24:005:025 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

24:005:026 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

24:005:027 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

24:005:028 They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

24:005:029 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

24:005:030 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

24:005:031 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

24:006:001 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

24:006:002 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.

24:006:003 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

24:006:004 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

24:006:005 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

24:006:006 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

24:006:007 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

24:006:008 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

24:006:009 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

24:006:010 To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

24:006:011 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

24:006:012 And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

24:006:013 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

24:006:014 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

24:006:015 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

24:006:016 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

24:006:017 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

24:006:018 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

24:006:019 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

24:006:020 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

24:006:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

24:006:022 Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

24:006:023 They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

24:006:024 We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

24:006:025 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

24:006:026 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

24:006:027 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

24:006:028 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

24:006:029 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.

24:006:030 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

24:007:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

24:007:002 Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

24:007:003 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

24:007:004 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

24:007:005 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

24:007:006 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

24:007:007 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

24:007:008 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

24:007:009 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

24:007:010 And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

24:007:011 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

24:007:012 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

24:007:013 And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

24:007:014 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

24:007:015 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

24:007:016 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

24:007:017 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

24:007:018 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

24:007:019 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

24:007:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

24:007:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

24:007:022 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

24:007:023 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

24:007:024 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

24:007:025 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

24:007:026 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

24:007:027 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

24:007:028 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

24:007:029 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

24:007:030 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

24:007:031 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

24:007:032 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

24:007:033 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

24:007:034 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

24:008:001 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

24:008:002 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

24:008:003 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

24:008:004 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

24:008:005 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

24:008:006 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

24:008:007 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

24:008:008 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

24:008:009 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

24:008:010 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

24:008:011 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

24:008:012 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

24:008:013 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

24:008:014 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

24:008:015 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

24:008:016 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

24:008:017 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

24:008:018 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

24:008:019 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

24:008:020 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

24:008:021 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

24:008:022 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

24:009:001 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

24:009:002 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

24:009:003 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

24:009:004 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

24:009:005 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

24:009:006 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

24:009:007 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

24:009:008 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

24:009:009 Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

24:009:010 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

24:009:011 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

24:009:012 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

24:009:013 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

24:009:014 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

24:009:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

24:009:016 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

24:009:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

24:009:018 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

24:009:019 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

24:009:020 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

24:009:021 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

24:009:022 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

24:009:023 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

24:009:024 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

24:009:025 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

24:009:026 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

24:010:001 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

24:010:002 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

24:010:003 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

24:010:004 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

24:010:005 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

24:010:006 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

24:010:007 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

24:010:008 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

24:010:009 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

24:010:010 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

24:010:011 Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

24:010:012 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

24:010:013 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

24:010:014 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

24:010:015 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

24:010:016 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts is his name.

24:010:017 Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

24:010:018 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

24:010:019 Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous; but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

24:010:020 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

24:010:021 For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

24:010:022 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

24:010:023 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

24:010:024 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

24:010:025 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

24:011:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying,

24:011:002 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

24:011:003 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

24:011:004 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

24:011:005 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

24:011:006 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

24:011:007 For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

24:011:008 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.

24:011:009 And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

24:011:010 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

24:011:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

24:011:012 Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

24:011:013 For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

24:011:014 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

24:011:015 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

24:011:016 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

24:011:017 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

24:011:018 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

24:011:019 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

24:011:020 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

24:011:021 Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:

24:011:022 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:

24:011:023 And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

24:012:001 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

24:012:002 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

24:012:003 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

24:012:004 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

24:012:005 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

24:012:006 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

24:012:007 I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

24:012:008 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

24:012:009 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

24:012:010 Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

24:012:011 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

24:012:012 The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.

24:012:013 They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

24:012:014 Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

24:012:015 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

24:012:016 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

24:012:017 But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD.

24:013:001 Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.

24:013:002 So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.

24:013:003 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,

24:013:004 Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

24:013:005 So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.

24:013:006 And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.

24:013:007 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

24:013:008 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:013:009 Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

24:013:010 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

24:013:011 For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

24:013:012 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?

24:013:013 Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

24:013:014 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

24:013:015 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

24:013:016 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

24:013:017 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.

24:013:018 Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

24:013:019 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

24:013:020 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock?

24:013:021 What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail?

24:013:022 And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

24:013:023 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

24:013:024 Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

24:013:025 This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

24:013:026 Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

24:013:027 I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

24:014:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

24:014:002 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

24:014:003 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

24:014:004 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

24:014:005 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

24:014:006 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

24:014:007 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

24:014:008 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

24:014:009 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

24:014:010 Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

24:014:011 Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

24:014:012 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

24:014:013 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

24:014:014 Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

24:014:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

24:014:016 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

24:014:017 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

24:014:018 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

24:014:019 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

24:014:020 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

24:014:021 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

24:014:022 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

24:015:001 Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

24:015:002 And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

24:015:003 And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

24:015:004 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

24:015:005 For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?

24:015:006 Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

24:015:007 And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people since they return not from their ways.

24:015:008 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

24:015:009 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

24:015:010 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

24:015:011 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

24:015:012 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

24:015:013 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

24:015:014 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

24:015:015 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

24:015:016 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.

24:015:017 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

24:015:018 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

24:015:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

24:015:020 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD.

24:015:021 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

24:016:001 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying,

24:016:002 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

24:016:003 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

24:016:004 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

24:016:005 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

24:016:006 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

24:016:007 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

24:016:008 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

24:016:009 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

24:016:010 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

24:016:011 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

24:016:012 And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

24:016:013 Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

24:016:014 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

24:016:015 But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

24:016:016 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

24:016:017 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

24:016:018 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

24:016:019 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

24:016:020 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

24:016:021 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.

24:017:001 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

24:017:002 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

24:017:003 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

24:017:004 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

24:017:005 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

24:017:006 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

24:017:007 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

24:017:008 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

24:017:009 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

24:017:010 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

24:017:011 As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

24:017:012 A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

24:017:013 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.

24:017:014 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou art my praise.

24:017:015 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.

24:017:016 As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

24:017:017 Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

24:017:018 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

24:017:019 Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

24:017:020 And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

24:017:021 Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

24:017:022 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

24:017:023 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

24:017:024 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

24:017:025 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.

24:017:026 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.

24:017:027 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

24:018:001 The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

24:018:002 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

24:018:003 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

24:018:004 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

24:018:005 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

24:018:006 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

24:018:007 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

24:018:008 If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

24:018:009 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

24:018:010 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

24:018:011 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

24:018:012 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

24:018:013 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

24:018:014 Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

24:018:015 Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

24:018:016 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

24:018:017 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

24:018:018 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

24:018:019 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

24:018:020 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

24:018:021 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

24:018:022 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

24:018:023 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

24:019:001 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

24:019:002 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

24:019:003 And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

24:019:004 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

24:019:005 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

24:019:006 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

24:019:007 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

24:019:008 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

24:019:009 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

24:019:010 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

24:019:011 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

24:019:012 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the LORD, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

24:019:013 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

24:019:014 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people,

24:019:015 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

24:020:001 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

24:020:002 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

24:020:003 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.

24:020:004 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

24:020:005 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

24:020:006 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

24:020:007 O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

24:020:008 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

24:020:009 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

24:020:010 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

24:020:011 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

24:020:012 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

24:020:013 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

24:020:014 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

24:020:015 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

24:020:016 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

24:020:017 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

24:020:018 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

24:021:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,

24:021:002 Enquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

24:021:003 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

24:021:004 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

24:021:005 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.

24:021:006 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

24:021:007 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

24:021:008 And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

24:021:009 He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

24:021:010 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

24:021:011 And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

24:021:012 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

24:021:013 Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

24:021:014 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

24:022:001 Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

24:022:002 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:

24:022:003 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

24:022:004 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

24:022:005 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

24:022:006 For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

24:022:007 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

24:022:008 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

24:022:009 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

24:022:010 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.

24:022:011 For thus saith the LORD touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place; He shall not return thither any more:

24:022:012 But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

24:022:013 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

24:022:014 That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

24:022:015 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

24:022:016 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.

24:022:017 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

24:022:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

24:022:019 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

24:022:020 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

24:022:021 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

24:022:022 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

24:022:023 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

24:022:024 As I live, saith the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

24:022:025 And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

24:022:026 And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

24:022:027 But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

24:022:028 Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

24:022:029 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

24:022:030 Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

24:023:001 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

24:023:002 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

24:023:003 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

24:023:004 And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

24:023:005 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

24:023:006 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

24:023:007 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

24:023:008 But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

24:023:009 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.

24:023:010 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

24:023:011 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

24:023:012 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

24:023:013 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

24:023:014 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness; they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

24:023:015 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

24:023:016 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

24:023:017 They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

24:023:018 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

24:023:019 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

24:023:020 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

24:023:021 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

24:023:022 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

24:023:023 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

24:023:024 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

24:023:025 I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

24:023:026 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

24:023:027 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

24:023:028 The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

24:023:029 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

24:023:030 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

24:023:031 Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

24:023:032 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

24:023:033 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.

24:023:034 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.

24:023:035 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

24:023:036 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

24:023:037 Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee? and, What hath the LORD spoken?

24:023:038 But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;

24:023:039 Therefore, behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:

24:023:040 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

24:024:001 The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

24:024:002 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

24:024:003 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

24:024:004 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:024:005 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

24:024:006 For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

24:024:007 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

24:024:008 And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

24:024:009 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

24:024:010 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

24:025:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

24:025:002 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

24:025:003 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.

24:025:004 And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

24:025:005 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

24:025:006 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

24:025:007 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

24:025:008 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

24:025:009 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

24:025:010 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

24:025:011 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

24:025:012 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

24:025:013 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

24:025:014 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

24:025:015 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

24:025:016 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

24:025:017 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

24:025:018 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

24:025:019 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

24:025:020 And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

24:025:021 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

24:025:022 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,

24:025:023 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

24:025:024 And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,

24:025:025 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,

24:025:026 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

24:025:027 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

24:025:028 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

24:025:029 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

24:025:030 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

24:025:031 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

24:025:032 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

24:025:033 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

24:025:034 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

24:025:035 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

24:025:036 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.

24:025:037 And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

24:025:038 He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

24:026:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD, saying,

24:026:002 Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

24:026:003 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

24:026:004 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

24:026:005 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

24:026:006 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

24:026:007 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

24:026:008 Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

24:026:009 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

24:026:010 When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house.

24:026:011 Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

24:026:012 Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

24:026:013 Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

24:026:014 As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

24:026:015 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

24:026:016 Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

24:026:017 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

24:026:018 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

24:026:019 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

24:026:020 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

24:026:021 And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;

24:026:022 And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.

24:026:023 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

24:026:024 Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

24:027:001 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

24:027:002 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

24:027:003 And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah;

24:027:004 And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

24:027:005 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

24:027:006 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

24:027:007 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

24:027:008 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

24:027:009 Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

24:027:010 For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

24:027:011 But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

24:027:012 I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

24:027:013 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

24:027:014 Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

24:027:015 For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

24:027:016 Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

24:027:017 Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

24:027:018 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

24:027:019 For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city.

24:027:020 Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

24:027:021 Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

24:027:022 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

24:028:001 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

24:028:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

24:028:003 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

24:028:004 And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

24:028:005 Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,

24:028:006 Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD's house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

24:028:007 Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;

24:028:008 The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

24:028:009 The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.

24:028:010 Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

24:028:011 And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

24:028:012 Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

24:028:013 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.

24:028:014 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

24:028:015 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

24:028:016 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.

24:028:017 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

24:029:001 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

24:029:002 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)

24:029:003 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon) saying,

24:029:004 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

24:029:005 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;

24:029:006 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

24:029:007 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

24:029:008 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

24:029:009 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.

24:029:010 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

24:029:011 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

24:029:012 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

24:029:013 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

24:029:014 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

24:029:015 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

24:029:016 Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

24:029:017 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

24:029:018 And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

24:029:019 Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

24:029:020 Hear ye therefore the word of the LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:

24:029:021 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

24:029:022 And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

24:029:023 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.

24:029:024 Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,

24:029:025 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

24:029:026 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

24:029:027 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?

24:029:028 For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

24:029:029 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

24:029:030 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

24:029:031 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

24:029:032 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the LORD; because he hath taught rebellion against the LORD.

24:030:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

24:030:002 Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.

24:030:003 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

24:030:004 And these are the words that the LORD spake concerning Israel and concerning Judah.

24:030:005 For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

24:030:006 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

24:030:007 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

24:030:008 For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

24:030:009 But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

24:030:010 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

24:030:011 For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet I will not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

24:030:012 For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

24:030:013 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

24:030:014 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

24:030:015 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

24:030:016 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

24:030:017 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

24:030:018 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

24:030:019 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

24:030:020 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

24:030:021 And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.

24:030:022 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

24:030:023 Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

24:030:024 The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

24:031:001 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

24:031:002 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

24:031:003 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

24:031:004 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

24:031:005 Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

24:031:006 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.

24:031:007 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

24:031:008 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

24:031:009 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

24:031:010 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

24:031:011 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

24:031:012 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

24:031:013 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

24:031:014 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

24:031:015 Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

24:031:016 Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

24:031:017 And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.

24:031:018 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

24:031:019 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

24:031:020 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

24:031:021 Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

24:031:022 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

24:031:023 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

24:031:024 And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.

24:031:025 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

24:031:026 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

24:031:027 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

24:031:028 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.

24:031:029 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

24:031:030 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

24:031:031 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

24:031:032 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

24:031:033 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

24:031:034 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

24:031:035 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:

24:031:036 If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

24:031:037 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

24:031:038 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.

24:031:039 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

24:031:040 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

24:032:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

24:032:002 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

24:032:003 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

24:032:004 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

24:032:005 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

24:032:006 And Jeremiah said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

24:032:007 Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

24:032:008 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

24:032:009 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

24:032:010 And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

24:032:011 So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:

24:032:012 And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

24:032:013 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

24:032:014 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

24:032:015 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

24:032:016 Now when I had delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the LORD, saying,

24:032:017 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

24:032:018 Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts, is his name,

24:032:019 Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

24:032:020 Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

24:032:021 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;

24:032:022 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

24:032:023 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:

24:032:024 Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

24:032:025 And thou hast said unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money, and take witnesses; for the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

24:032:026 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

24:032:027 Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

24:032:028 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

24:032:029 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

24:032:030 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

24:032:031 For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

24:032:032 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

24:032:033 And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

24:032:034 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

24:032:035 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

24:032:036 And now therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;

24:032:037 Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

24:032:038 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

24:032:039 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

24:032:040 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

24:032:041 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

24:032:042 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

24:032:043 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

24:032:044 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

24:033:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

24:033:002 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;

24:033:003 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

24:033:004 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

24:033:005 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

24:033:006 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

24:033:007 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

24:033:008 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

24:033:009 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

24:033:010 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

24:033:011 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

24:033:012 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

24:033:013 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.

24:033:014 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

24:033:015 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

24:033:016 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

24:033:017 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;

24:033:018 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

24:033:019 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,

24:033:020 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

24:033:021 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

24:033:022 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

24:033:023 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,

24:033:024 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

24:033:025 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

24:033:026 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

24:034:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,

24:034:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

24:034:003 And thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

24:034:004 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

24:034:005 But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

24:034:006 Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

24:034:007 When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

24:034:008 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

24:034:009 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

24:034:010 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

24:034:011 But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

24:034:012 Therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

24:034:013 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,

24:034:014 At the end of seven years let ye go every man his brother an Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

24:034:015 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

24:034:016 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

24:034:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

24:034:018 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,

24:034:019 The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

24:034:020 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

24:034:021 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.

24:034:022 Behold, I will command, saith the LORD, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

24:035:001 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

24:035:002 Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

24:035:003 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

24:035:004 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:

24:035:005 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

24:035:006 But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:

24:035:007 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

24:035:008 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;

24:035:009 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

24:035:010 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

24:035:011 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.

24:035:012 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,

24:035:013 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

24:035:014 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.

24:035:015 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

24:035:016 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:

24:035:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

24:035:018 And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

24:035:019 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

24:036:001 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

24:036:002 Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

24:036:003 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

24:036:004 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

24:036:005 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD:

24:036:006 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

24:036:007 It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people.

24:036:008 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house.

24:036:009 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

24:036:010 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.

24:036:011 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,

24:036:012 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.

24:036:013 Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

24:036:014 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

24:036:015 And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

24:036:016 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

24:036:017 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

24:036:018 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

24:036:019 Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.

24:036:020 And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.

24:036:021 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

24:036:022 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

24:036:023 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

24:036:024 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

24:036:025 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.

24:036:026 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.

24:036:027 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

24:036:028 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

24:036:029 And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

24:036:030 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

24:036:031 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.

24:036:032 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

24:037:001 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

24:037:002 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

24:037:003 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.

24:037:004 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.

24:037:005 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.

24:037:006 Then came the word of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah saying,

24:037:007 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

24:037:008 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

24:037:009 Thus saith the LORD; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

24:037:010 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

24:037:011 And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,

24:037:012 Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people.

24:037:013 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

24:037:014 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

24:037:015 Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

24:037:016 When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

24:037:017 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

24:037:018 Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

24:037:019 Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

24:037:020 Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

24:037:021 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

24:038:001 Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

24:038:002 Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

24:038:003 Thus saith the LORD, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which shall take it.

24:038:004 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

24:038:005 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

24:038:006 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

24:038:007 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

24:038:008 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king saying,

24:038:009 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.

24:038:010 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

24:038:011 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

24:038:012 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

24:038:013 So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

24:038:014 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

24:038:015 Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?

24:038:016 So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

24:038:017 Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:

24:038:018 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

24:038:019 And Zedekiah the king said unto Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.

24:038:020 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.

24:038:021 But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me:

24:038:022 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.

24:038:023 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

24:038:024 Then said Zedekiah unto Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and thou shalt not die.

24:038:025 But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king, hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

24:038:026 Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

24:038:027 Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

24:038:028 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

24:039:001 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

24:039:002 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

24:039:003 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

24:039:004 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

24:039:005 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

24:039:006 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

24:039:007 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

24:039:008 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

24:039:009 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

24:039:010 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

24:039:011 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,

24:039:012 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

24:039:013 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;

24:039:014 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

24:039:015 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

24:039:016 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

24:039:017 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.

24:039:018 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

24:040:001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

24:040:002 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

24:040:003 Now the LORD hath brought it, and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

24:040:004 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.

24:040:005 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

24:040:006 Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

24:040:007 Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

24:040:008 Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

24:040:009 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

24:040:010 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

24:040:011 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;

24:040:012 Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

24:040:013 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

24:040:014 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

24:040:015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

24:040:016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

24:041:001 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

24:041:002 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

24:041:003 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.

24:041:004 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

24:041:005 That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

24:041:006 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.

24:041:007 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

24:041:008 But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

24:041:009 Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

24:041:010 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

24:041:011 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

24:041:012 Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

24:041:013 Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

24:041:014 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

24:041:015 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

24:041:016 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:

24:041:017 And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

24:041:018 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.

24:042:001 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

24:042:002 And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

24:042:003 That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

24:042:004 Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

24:042:005 Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

24:042:006 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.

24:042:007 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah.

24:042:008 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

24:042:009 And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;

24:042:010 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

24:042:011 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him, saith the LORD: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

24:042:012 And I will shew mercies unto you, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

24:042:013 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,

24:042:014 Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

24:042:015 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;

24:042:016 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

24:042:017 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

24:042:018 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

24:042:019 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

24:042:020 For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

24:042:021 And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.

24:042:022 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

24:043:001 And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

24:043:002 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

24:043:003 But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.

24:043:004 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.

24:043:005 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

24:043:006 Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.

24:043:007 So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

24:043:008 Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

24:043:009 Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

24:043:010 And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

24:043:011 And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

24:043:012 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

24:043:013 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

24:044:001 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

24:044:002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

24:044:003 Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

24:044:004 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

24:044:005 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

24:044:006 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

24:044:007 Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

24:044:008 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

24:044:009 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

24:044:010 They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

24:044:011 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.

24:044:012 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

24:044:013 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

24:044:014 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

24:044:015 Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

24:044:016 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

24:044:017 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

24:044:018 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

24:044:019 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

24:044:020 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,

24:044:021 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

24:044:022 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

24:044:023 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.

24:044:024 Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

24:044:025 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

24:044:026 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.

24:044:027 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

24:044:028 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.

24:044:029 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

24:044:030 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

24:045:001 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

24:045:002 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:

24:045:003 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

24:045:004 Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

24:045:005 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

24:046:001 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;

24:046:002 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

24:046:003 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

24:046:004 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

24:046:005 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.

24:046:006 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

24:046:007 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

24:046:008 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

24:046:009 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

24:046:010 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

24:046:011 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

24:046:012 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

24:046:013 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

24:046:014 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

24:046:015 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.

24:046:016 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

24:046:017 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

24:046:018 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

24:046:019 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

24:046:020 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

24:046:021 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

24:046:022 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

24:046:023 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

24:046:024 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

24:046:025 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

24:046:026 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

24:046:027 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

24:046:028 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

24:047:001 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

24:047:002 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

24:047:003 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

24:047:004 Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

24:047:005 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

24:047:006 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

24:047:007 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.

24:048:001 Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

24:048:002 There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

24:048:003 A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

24:048:004 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

24:048:005 For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

24:048:006 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

24:048:007 For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

24:048:008 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.

24:048:009 Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

24:048:010 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

24:048:011 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

24:048:012 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

24:048:013 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

24:048:014 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?

24:048:015 Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

24:048:016 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

24:048:017 All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!

24:048:018 Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.

24:048:019 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?

24:048:020 Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

24:048:021 And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

24:048:022 And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Bethdiblathaim,

24:048:023 And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon,

24:048:024 And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

24:048:025 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.

24:048:026 Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

24:048:027 For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

24:048:028 O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

24:048:029 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

24:048:030 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.

24:048:031 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

24:048:032 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.

24:048:033 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab, and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

24:048:034 From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

24:048:035 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith the LORD, him that offereth in the high places, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

24:048:036 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.

24:048:037 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

24:048:038 There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.

24:048:039 They shall howl, saying, How is it broken down! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about him.

24:048:040 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings over Moab.

24:048:041 Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

24:048:042 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.

24:048:043 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.

24:048:044 He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.

24:048:045 They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

24:048:046 Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

24:048:047 Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

24:049:001 Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?

24:049:002 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

24:049:003 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

24:049:004 Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

24:049:005 Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

24:049:006 And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.

24:049:007 Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

24:049:008 Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

24:049:009 If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

24:049:010 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

24:049:011 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

24:049:012 For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

24:049:013 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

24:049:014 I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

24:049:015 For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

24:049:016 Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

24:049:017 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

24:049:018 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

24:049:019 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

24:049:020 Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.

24:049:021 The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.

24:049:022 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

24:049:023 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

24:049:024 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

24:049:025 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

24:049:026 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.

24:049:027 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

24:049:028 Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

24:049:029 Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.

24:049:030 Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

24:049:031 Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

24:049:032 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

24:049:033 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

24:049:034 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

24:049:035 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

24:049:036 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

24:049:037 For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:

24:049:038 And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

24:049:039 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

24:050:001 The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

24:050:002 Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

24:050:003 For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

24:050:004 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God.

24:050:005 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

24:050:006 My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

24:050:007 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

24:050:008 Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.

24:050:009 For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

24:050:010 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

24:050:011 Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

24:050:012 Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

24:050:013 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

24:050:014 Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the LORD.

24:050:015 Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

24:050:016 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

24:050:017 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

24:050:018 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

24:050:019 And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

24:050:020 In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve.

24:050:021 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

24:050:022 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

24:050:023 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

24:050:024 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

24:050:025 The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

24:050:026 Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.

24:050:027 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

24:050:028 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.

24:050:029 Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

24:050:030 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.

24:050:031 Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord GOD of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

24:050:032 And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.

24:050:033 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

24:050:034 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

24:050:035 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

24:050:036 A sword is upon the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is upon her mighty men; and they shall be dismayed.

24:050:037 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

24:050:038 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

24:050:039 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

24:050:040 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

24:050:041 Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

24:050:042 They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

24:050:043 The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

24:050:044 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

24:050:045 Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.

24:050:046 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

24:051:001 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

24:051:002 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

24:051:003 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

24:051:004 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

24:051:005 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

24:051:006 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.

24:051:007 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

24:051:008 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

24:051:009 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

24:051:010 The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

24:051:011 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

24:051:012 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

24:051:013 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

24:051:014 The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

24:051:015 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

24:051:016 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

24:051:017 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

24:051:018 They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

24:051:019 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name.

24:051:020 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

24:051:021 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

24:051:022 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

24:051:023 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

24:051:024 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD.

24:051:025 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

24:051:026 And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.

24:051:027 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

24:051:028 Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

24:051:029 And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

24:051:030 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.

24:051:031 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

24:051:032 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

24:051:033 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

24:051:034 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

24:051:035 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

24:051:036 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

24:051:037 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.

24:051:038 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.

24:051:039 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

24:051:040 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

24:051:041 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

24:051:042 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

24:051:043 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

24:051:044 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

24:051:045 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

24:051:046 And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

24:051:047 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

24:051:048 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD.

24:051:049 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

24:051:050 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

24:051:051 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

24:051:052 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

24:051:053 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

24:051:054 A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

24:051:055 Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

24:051:056 Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the LORD God of recompences shall surely requite.

24:051:057 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

24:051:058 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

24:051:059 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.

24:051:060 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

24:051:061 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

24:051:062 Then shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

24:051:063 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

24:051:064 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

24:052:001 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

24:052:002 And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

24:052:003 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

24:052:004 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

24:052:005 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

24:052:006 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

24:052:007 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

24:052:008 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

24:052:009 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.

24:052:010 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

24:052:011 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

24:052:012 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

24:052:013 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

24:052:014 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

24:052:015 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

24:052:016 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

24:052:017 Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

24:052:018 The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

24:052:019 And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.

24:052:020 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

24:052:021 And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

24:052:022 And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.

24:052:023 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

24:052:024 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

24:052:025 He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

24:052:026 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

24:052:027 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

24:052:028 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:

24:052:029 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

24:052:030 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

24:052:031 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison.

24:052:032 And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

24:052:033 And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.

24:052:034 And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

Book 25 Lamentations

25:001:001 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

25:001:002 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

25:001:003 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

25:001:004 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

25:001:005 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

25:001:006 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

25:001:007 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

25:001:008 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

25:001:009 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

25:001:010 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

25:001:011 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

25:001:012 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

25:001:013 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

25:001:014 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

25:001:015 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

25:001:016 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

25:001:017 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

25:001:018 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

25:001:019 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

25:001:020 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

25:001:021 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

25:001:022 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

25:002:001 How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

25:002:002 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

25:002:003 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

25:002:004 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

25:002:005 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

25:002:006 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

25:002:007 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

25:002:008 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

25:002:009 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

25:002:010 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

25:002:011 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

25:002:012 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

25:002:013 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

25:002:014 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

25:002:015 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

25:002:016 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

25:002:017 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

25:002:018 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

25:002:019 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

25:002:020 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

25:002:021 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

25:002:022 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

25:003:001 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

25:003:002 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

25:003:003 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

25:003:004 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

25:003:005 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

25:003:006 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

25:003:007 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

25:003:008 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

25:003:009 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

25:003:010 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

25:003:011 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

25:003:012 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

25:003:013 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

25:003:014 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

25:003:015 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

25:003:016 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

25:003:017 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

25:003:018 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

25:003:019 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

25:003:020 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

25:003:021 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

25:003:022 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

25:003:023 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

25:003:024 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25:003:025 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

25:003:026 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

25:003:027 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.

25:003:028 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

25:003:029 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

25:003:030 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

25:003:031 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

25:003:032 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

25:003:033 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

25:003:034 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

25:003:035 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

25:003:036 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.

25:003:037 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

25:003:038 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

25:003:039 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

25:003:040 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

25:003:041 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

25:003:042 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

25:003:043 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

25:003:044 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

25:003:045 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

25:003:046 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

25:003:047 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

25:003:048 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

25:003:049 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.

25:003:050 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

25:003:051 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

25:003:052 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

25:003:053 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

25:003:054 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

25:003:055 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

25:003:056 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

25:003:057 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

25:003:058 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

25:003:059 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

25:003:060 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

25:003:061 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

25:003:062 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

25:003:063 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

25:003:064 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

25:003:065 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

25:003:066 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

25:004:001 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

25:004:002 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

25:004:003 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

25:004:004 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

25:004:005 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

25:004:006 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.

25:004:007 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

25:004:008 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

25:004:009 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

25:004:010 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

25:004:011 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

25:004:012 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

25:004:013 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

25:004:014 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

25:004:015 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.

25:004:016 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

25:004:017 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

25:004:018 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

25:004:019 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

25:004:020 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

25:004:021 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

25:004:022 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

25:005:001 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

25:005:002 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

25:005:003 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

25:005:004 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

25:005:005 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

25:005:006 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

25:005:007 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

25:005:008 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

25:005:009 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

25:005:010 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

25:005:011 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

25:005:012 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

25:005:013 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

25:005:014 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

25:005:015 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

25:005:016 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

25:005:017 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

25:005:018 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

25:005:019 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

25:005:020 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

25:005:021 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

25:005:022 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Book 26 Ezekiel

26:001:001 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

26:001:002 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,

26:001:003 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

26:001:004 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

26:001:005 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

26:001:006 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

26:001:007 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

26:001:008 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

26:001:009 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

26:001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

26:001:011 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

26:001:012 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

26:001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

26:001:014 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

26:001:015 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

26:001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

26:001:017 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

26:001:018 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

26:001:019 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

26:001:020 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

26:001:021 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

26:001:022 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

26:001:023 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

26:001:024 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

26:001:025 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

26:001:026 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

26:001:027 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

26:001:028 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

26:002:001 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee.

26:002:002 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.

26:002:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.

26:002:004 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

26:002:005 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

26:002:006 And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

26:002:007 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

26:002:008 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

26:002:009 And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

26:002:010 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

26:003:001 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

26:003:002 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

26:003:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

26:003:004 And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

26:003:005 For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

26:003:006 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

26:003:007 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

26:003:008 Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

26:003:009 As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

26:003:010 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

26:003:011 And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

26:003:012 Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

26:003:013 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.

26:003:014 So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

26:003:015 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

26:003:016 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:003:017 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

26:003:018 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

26:003:019 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

26:003:020 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

26:003:021 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

26:003:022 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

26:003:023 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

26:003:024 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

26:003:025 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

26:003:026 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

26:003:027 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

26:004:001 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

26:004:002 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

26:004:003 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

26:004:004 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

26:004:005 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

26:004:006 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

26:004:007 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

26:004:008 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

26:004:009 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

26:004:010 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

26:004:011 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

26:004:012 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

26:004:013 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

26:004:014 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

26:004:015 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

26:004:016 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

26:004:017 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

26:005:001 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

26:005:002 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

26:005:003 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.

26:005:004 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

26:005:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

26:005:006 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

26:005:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

26:005:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

26:005:009 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

26:005:010 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

26:005:011 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

26:005:012 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

26:005:013 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

26:005:014 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

26:005:015 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

26:005:016 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

26:005:017 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee: and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

26:006:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:006:002 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

26:006:003 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

26:006:004 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

26:006:005 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

26:006:006 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

26:006:007 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:006:008 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

26:006:009 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

26:006:010 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

26:006:011 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

26:006:012 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

26:006:013 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

26:006:014 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:007:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:007:002 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

26:007:003 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.

26:007:004 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:007:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

26:007:006 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

26:007:007 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

26:007:008 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

26:007:009 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.

26:007:010 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

26:007:011 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.

26:007:012 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

26:007:013 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

26:007:014 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

26:007:015 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

26:007:016 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

26:007:017 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

26:007:018 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

26:007:019 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

26:007:020 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

26:007:021 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

26:007:022 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

26:007:023 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

26:007:024 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

26:007:025 Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

26:007:026 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.

26:007:027 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:008:001 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

26:008:002 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

26:008:003 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

26:008:004 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

26:008:005 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

26:008:006 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

26:008:007 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

26:008:008 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

26:008:009 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.

26:008:010 So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

26:008:011 And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

26:008:012 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

26:008:013 He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

26:008:014 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

26:008:015 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

26:008:016 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

26:008:017 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

26:008:018 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

26:009:001 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

26:009:002 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

26:009:003 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

26:009:004 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

26:009:005 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

26:009:006 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

26:009:007 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

26:009:008 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

26:009:009 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

26:009:010 And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

26:009:011 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

26:010:001 Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

26:010:002 And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

26:010:003 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

26:010:004 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD's glory.

26:010:005 And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

26:010:006 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

26:010:007 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.

26:010:008 And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man's hand under their wings.

26:010:009 And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

26:010:010 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

26:010:011 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

26:010:012 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

26:010:013 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

26:010:014 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

26:010:015 And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

26:010:016 And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

26:010:017 When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

26:010:018 Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.

26:010:019 And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

26:010:020 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

26:010:021 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

26:010:022 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.

26:011:001 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.

26:011:002 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

26:011:003 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

26:011:004 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

26:011:005 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

26:011:006 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

26:011:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

26:011:008 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.

26:011:009 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

26:011:010 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:011:011 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:

26:011:012 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.

26:011:013 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?

26:011:014 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:011:015 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

26:011:016 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

26:011:017 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

26:011:018 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

26:011:019 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

26:011:020 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

26:011:021 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

26:011:022 Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

26:011:023 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

26:011:024 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.

26:011:025 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me.

26:012:001 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,

26:012:002 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.

26:012:003 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.

26:012:004 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.

26:012:005 Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

26:012:006 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.

26:012:007 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.

26:012:008 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

26:012:009 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

26:012:010 Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

26:012:011 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

26:012:012 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.

26:012:013 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

26:012:014 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

26:012:015 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

26:012:016 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:012:017 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

26:012:018 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

26:012:019 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

26:012:020 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:012:021 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:012:022 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

26:012:023 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

26:012:024 For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

26:012:025 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:012:026 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying.

26:012:027 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

26:012:028 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.

26:013:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:013:002 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

26:013:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

26:013:004 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

26:013:005 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

26:013:006 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

26:013:007 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?

26:013:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.

26:013:009 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

26:013:010 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:

26:013:011 Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.

26:013:012 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it?

26:013:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

26:013:014 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:013:015 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

26:013:016 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.

26:013:017 Likewise, thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,

26:013:018 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?

26:013:019 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

26:013:020 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

26:013:021 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:013:022 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

26:013:023 Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:014:001 Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.

26:014:002 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:014:003 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

26:014:004 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

26:014:005 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

26:014:006 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

26:014:007 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

26:014:008 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:014:009 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

26:014:010 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;

26:014:011 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

26:014:012 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

26:014:013 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

26:014:014 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

26:014:015 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:

26:014:016 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

26:014:017 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

26:014:018 Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

26:014:019 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

26:014:020 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

26:014:021 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

26:014:022 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.

26:014:023 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:015:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:015:002 Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

26:015:003 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

26:015:004 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?

26:015:005 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?

26:015:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

26:015:007 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.

26:015:008 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

26:016:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:016:002 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

26:016:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

26:016:004 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

26:016:005 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

26:016:006 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

26:016:007 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

26:016:008 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.

26:016:009 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

26:016:010 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

26:016:011 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

26:016:012 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

26:016:013 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

26:016:014 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

26:016:015 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

26:016:016 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

26:016:017 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,

26:016:018 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

26:016:019 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD.

26:016:020 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

26:016:021 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?

26:016:022 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

26:016:023 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the LORD GOD;)

26:016:024 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.

26:016:025 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

26:016:026 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

26:016:027 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

26:016:028 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

26:016:029 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.

26:016:030 How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

26:016:031 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;

26:016:032 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

26:016:033 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

26:016:034 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

26:016:035 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:

26:016:036 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

26:016:037 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

26:016:038 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

26:016:039 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

26:016:040 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

26:016:041 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

26:016:042 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

26:016:043 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

26:016:044 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

26:016:045 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

26:016:046 And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

26:016:047 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

26:016:048 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

26:016:049 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

26:016:050 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

26:016:051 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

26:016:052 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

26:016:053 When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

26:016:054 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

26:016:055 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

26:016:056 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

26:016:057 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

26:016:058 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.

26:016:059 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

26:016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

26:016:061 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

26:016:062 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:

26:016:063 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.

26:017:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

26:017:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

26:017:004 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

26:017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

26:017:006 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

26:017:007 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

26:017:008 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

26:017:009 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

26:017:010 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

26:017:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:017:012 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

26:017:013 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:

26:017:014 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

26:017:015 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

26:017:016 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

26:017:017 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

26:017:018 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

26:017:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

26:017:020 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

26:017:021 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

26:017:022 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:

26:017:023 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

26:017:024 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

26:018:001 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

26:018:002 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

26:018:003 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.

26:018:004 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

26:018:005 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

26:018:006 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,

26:018:007 And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

26:018:008 He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

26:018:009 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.

26:018:010 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,

26:018:011 And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,

26:018:012 Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

26:018:013 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

26:018:014 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,

26:018:015 That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,

26:018:016 Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

26:018:017 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

26:018:018 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

26:018:019 Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

26:018:020 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

26:018:021 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

26:018:022 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

26:018:023 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

26:018:024 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

26:018:025 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

26:018:026 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

26:018:027 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

26:018:028 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

26:018:029 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

26:018:030 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

26:018:031 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

26:018:032 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

26:019:001 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

26:019:002 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

26:019:003 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

26:019:004 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

26:019:005 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

26:019:006 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

26:019:007 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

26:019:008 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

26:019:009 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

26:019:010 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

26:019:011 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

26:019:012 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

26:019:013 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

26:019:014 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

26:020:001 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me.

26:020:002 Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

26:020:003 Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

26:020:004 Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

26:020:005 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

26:020:006 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

26:020:007 Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

26:020:008 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

26:020:009 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

26:020:010 Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness.

26:020:011 And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

26:020:012 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

26:020:013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

26:020:014 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

26:020:015 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

26:020:016 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

26:020:017 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

26:020:018 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

26:020:019 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

26:020:020 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

26:020:021 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

26:020:022 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

26:020:023 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

26:020:024 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

26:020:025 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

26:020:026 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.

26:020:027 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

26:020:028 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

26:020:029 Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name whereof is called Bamah unto this day.

26:020:030 Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

26:020:031 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.

26:020:032 And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

26:020:033 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:

26:020:034 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

26:020:035 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

26:020:036 Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

26:020:037 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

26:020:038 And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:020:039 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

26:020:040 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

26:020:041 I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

26:020:042 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.

26:020:043 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

26:020:044 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

26:020:045 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:020:046 Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

26:020:047 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

26:020:048 And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.

26:020:049 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

26:021:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:021:002 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

26:021:003 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

26:021:004 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

26:021:005 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

26:021:006 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

26:021:007 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

26:021:008 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:021:009 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

26:021:010 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

26:021:011 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

26:021:012 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

26:021:013 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

26:021:014 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

26:021:015 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

26:021:016 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

26:021:017 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.

26:021:018 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

26:021:019 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

26:021:020 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

26:021:021 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

26:021:022 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

26:021:023 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

26:021:024 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

26:021:025 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

26:021:026 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

26:021:027 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

26:021:028 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

26:021:029 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

26:021:030 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

26:021:031 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

26:021:032 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

26:022:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:022:002 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

26:022:003 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

26:022:004 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

26:022:005 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

26:022:006 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

26:022:007 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

26:022:008 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

26:022:009 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

26:022:010 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

26:022:011 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

26:022:012 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

26:022:013 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

26:022:014 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

26:022:015 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

26:022:016 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

26:022:017 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:022:018 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

26:022:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

26:022:020 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

26:022:021 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.

26:022:022 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.

26:022:023 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:022:024 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

26:022:025 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

26:022:026 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

26:022:027 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

26:022:028 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

26:022:029 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

26:022:030 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

26:022:031 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

26:023:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:023:002 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

26:023:003 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

26:023:004 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

26:023:005 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

26:023:006 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

26:023:007 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

26:023:008 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

26:023:009 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

26:023:010 These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

26:023:011 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

26:023:012 She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

26:023:013 Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way,

26:023:014 And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

26:023:015 Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

26:023:016 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

26:023:017 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.

26:023:018 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

26:023:019 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

26:023:020 For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

26:023:021 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

26:023:022 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

26:023:023 The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

26:023:024 And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.

26:023:025 And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

26:023:026 They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

26:023:027 Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

26:023:028 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:

26:023:029 And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

26:023:030 I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

26:023:031 Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

26:023:032 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

26:023:033 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

26:023:034 Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:023:035 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

26:023:036 The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

26:023:037 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

26:023:038 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

26:023:039 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

26:023:040 And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

26:023:041 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

26:023:042 And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

26:023:043 Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

26:023:044 Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.

26:023:045 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

26:023:046 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

26:023:047 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

26:023:048 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

26:023:049 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

26:024:001 Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:024:002 Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day: the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day.

26:024:003 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

26:024:004 Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

26:024:005 Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

26:024:006 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

26:024:007 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;

26:024:008 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

26:024:009 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

26:024:010 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, and let the bones be burned.

26:024:011 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

26:024:012 She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

26:024:013 In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

26:024:014 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.

26:024:015 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:024:016 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

26:024:017 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

26:024:018 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

26:024:019 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?

26:024:020 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:024:021 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

26:024:022 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

26:024:023 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

26:024:024 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

26:024:025 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

26:024:026 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?

26:024:027 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:025:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:025:002 Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;

26:025:003 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

26:025:004 Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

26:025:005 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:025:006 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

26:025:007 Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

26:025:008 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

26:025:009 Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,

26:025:010 Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

26:025:011 And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:025:012 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;

26:025:013 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

26:025:014 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.

26:025:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

26:025:016 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

26:025:017 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

26:026:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:026:002 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:

26:026:003 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

26:026:004 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

26:026:005 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

26:026:006 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:026:007 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.

26:026:008 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.

26:026:009 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

26:026:010 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

26:026:011 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.

26:026:012 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

26:026:013 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

26:026:014 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:026:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

26:026:016 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.

26:026:017 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

26:026:018 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.

26:026:019 For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

26:026:020 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

26:026:021 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.

26:027:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:027:002 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

26:027:003 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

26:027:004 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

26:027:005 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

26:027:006 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.

26:027:007 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

26:027:008 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.

26:027:009 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

26:027:010 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

26:027:011 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.

26:027:012 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

26:027:013 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

26:027:014 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

26:027:015 The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.

26:027:016 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

26:027:017 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

26:027:018 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

26:027:019 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

26:027:020 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

26:027:021 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.

26:027:022 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

26:027:023 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

26:027:024 These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

26:027:025 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

26:027:026 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.

26:027:027 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

26:027:028 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

26:027:029 And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;

26:027:030 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

26:027:031 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

26:027:032 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

26:027:033 When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

26:027:034 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.

26:027:035 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

26:027:036 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

26:028:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:028:002 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

26:028:003 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

26:028:004 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

26:028:005 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

26:028:006 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

26:028:007 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

26:028:008 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

26:028:009 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

26:028:010 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:028:011 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:028:012 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

26:028:013 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

26:028:014 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

26:028:015 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

26:028:016 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

26:028:017 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

26:028:018 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

26:028:019 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

26:028:020 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:028:021 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

26:028:022 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

26:028:023 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:028:024 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

26:028:025 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

26:028:026 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

26:029:001 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:029:002 Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

26:029:003 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

26:029:004 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.

26:029:005 And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.

26:029:006 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

26:029:007 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

26:029:008 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

26:029:009 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

26:029:010 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

26:029:011 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

26:029:012 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

26:029:013 Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

26:029:014 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

26:029:015 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

26:029:016 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

26:029:017 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:029:018 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

26:029:019 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

26:029:020 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

26:029:021 In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:030:001 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:030:002 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

26:030:003 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

26:030:004 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.

26:030:005 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

26:030:006 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

26:030:007 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

26:030:008 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

26:030:009 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.

26:030:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

26:030:011 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

26:030:012 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

26:030:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

26:030:014 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

26:030:015 And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

26:030:016 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

26:030:017 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

26:030:018 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

26:030:019 Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:030:020 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:030:021 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

26:030:022 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

26:030:023 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

26:030:024 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

26:030:025 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

26:030:026 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:031:001 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:031:002 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

26:031:003 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

26:031:004 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

26:031:005 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

26:031:006 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

26:031:007 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

26:031:008 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

26:031:009 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

26:031:010 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

26:031:011 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

26:031:012 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

26:031:013 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

26:031:014 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

26:031:015 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

26:031:016 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

26:031:017 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

26:031:018 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

26:032:001 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:032:002 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

26:032:003 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

26:032:004 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

26:032:005 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

26:032:006 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

26:032:007 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

26:032:008 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

26:032:009 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

26:032:010 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

26:032:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

26:032:012 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

26:032:013 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

26:032:014 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

26:032:015 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.

26:032:016 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

26:032:017 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:032:018 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

26:032:019 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

26:032:020 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.

26:032:021 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

26:032:022 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

26:032:023 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

26:032:024 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

26:032:025 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

26:032:026 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

26:032:027 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

26:032:028 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

26:032:029 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.

26:032:030 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.

26:032:031 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.

26:032:032 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

26:033:001 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:033:002 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:

26:033:003 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

26:033:004 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

26:033:005 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

26:033:006 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

26:033:007 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

26:033:008 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

26:033:009 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

26:033:010 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

26:033:011 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

26:033:012 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

26:033:013 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

26:033:014 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

26:033:015 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

26:033:016 None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

26:033:017 Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

26:033:018 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

26:033:019 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

26:033:020 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

26:033:021 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

26:033:022 Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

26:033:023 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:033:024 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

26:033:025 Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

26:033:026 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

26:033:027 Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

26:033:028 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

26:033:029 Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

26:033:030 Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.

26:033:031 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

26:033:032 And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

26:033:033 And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

26:034:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:034:002 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

26:034:003 Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

26:034:004 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

26:034:005 And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

26:034:006 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

26:034:007 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

26:034:008 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

26:034:009 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

26:034:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

26:034:011 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

26:034:012 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

26:034:013 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

26:034:014 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

26:034:015 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.

26:034:016 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

26:034:017 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

26:034:018 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

26:034:019 And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

26:034:020 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

26:034:021 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

26:034:022 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

26:034:023 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

26:034:024 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

26:034:025 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

26:034:026 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

26:034:027 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

26:034:028 And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.

26:034:029 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

26:034:030 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.

26:034:031 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.

26:035:001 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:035:002 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

26:035:003 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

26:035:004 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

26:035:005 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

26:035:006 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

26:035:007 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

26:035:008 And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

26:035:009 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:035:010 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:

26:035:011 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

26:035:012 And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

26:035:013 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

26:035:014 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

26:035:015 As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:036:001 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:

26:036:002 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:

26:036:003 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

26:036:004 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;

26:036:005 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

26:036:006 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:

26:036:007 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.

26:036:008 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.

26:036:009 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

26:036:010 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:

26:036:011 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:036:012 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.

26:036:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations:

26:036:014 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.

26:036:015 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.

26:036:016 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:036:017 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

26:036:018 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:

26:036:019 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

26:036:020 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.

26:036:021 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.

26:036:022 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.

26:036:023 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

26:036:024 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

26:036:025 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

26:036:026 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

26:036:027 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

26:036:028 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

26:036:029 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

26:036:030 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

26:036:031 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

26:036:032 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

26:036:033 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

26:036:034 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

26:036:035 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

26:036:036 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.

26:036:037 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

26:036:038 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:037:001 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

26:037:002 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

26:037:003 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

26:037:004 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

26:037:005 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

26:037:006 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

26:037:007 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

26:037:008 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

26:037:009 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

26:037:010 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

26:037:011 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

26:037:012 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

26:037:013 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

26:037:014 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

26:037:015 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

26:037:016 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:

26:037:017 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

26:037:018 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

26:037:019 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

26:037:020 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

26:037:021 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

26:037:022 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

26:037:023 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

26:037:024 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

26:037:025 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

26:037:026 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

26:037:027 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

26:037:028 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

26:038:001 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26:038:002 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

26:038:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

26:038:004 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

26:038:005 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

26:038:006 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

26:038:007 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

26:038:008 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

26:038:009 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

26:038:010 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

26:038:011 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

26:038:012 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

26:038:013 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

26:038:014 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?

26:038:015 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

26:038:016 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

26:038:017 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?

26:038:018 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.

26:038:019 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

26:038:020 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

26:038:021 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.

26:038:022 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

26:038:023 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:039:001 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:

26:039:002 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:

26:039:003 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

26:039:004 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

26:039:005 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

26:039:006 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

26:039:007 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

26:039:008 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

26:039:009 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

26:039:010 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.

26:039:011 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

26:039:012 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

26:039:013 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.

26:039:014 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

26:039:015 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamongog.

26:039:016 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

26:039:017 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

26:039:018 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

26:039:019 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

26:039:020 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.

26:039:021 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.

26:039:022 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.

26:039:023 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

26:039:024 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

26:039:025 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

26:039:026 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.

26:039:027 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

26:039:028 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

26:039:029 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

26:040:001 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

26:040:002 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.

26:040:003 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

26:040:004 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

26:040:005 And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

26:040:006 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

26:040:007 And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

26:040:008 He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

26:040:009 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

26:040:010 And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

26:040:011 And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

26:040:012 The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

26:040:013 He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.

26:040:014 He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

26:040:015 And from the face of the gate of the entrance unto the face of the porch of the inner gate were fifty cubits.

26:040:016 And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

26:040:017 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.

26:040:018 And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

26:040:019 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

26:040:020 And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

26:040:021 And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

26:040:022 And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.

26:040:023 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits.

26:040:024 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

26:040:025 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

26:040:026 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

26:040:027 And there was a gate in the inner court toward the south: and he measured from gate to gate toward the south an hundred cubits.

26:040:028 And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;

26:040:029 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

26:040:030 And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.

26:040:031 And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

26:040:032 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.

26:040:033 And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.

26:040:034 And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

26:040:035 And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures;

26:040:036 The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

26:040:037 And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

26:040:038 And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

26:040:039 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

26:040:040 And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables.

26:040:041 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.

26:040:042 And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

26:040:043 And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

26:040:044 And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south: one at the side of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.

26:040:045 And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house.

26:040:046 And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him.

26:040:047 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.

26:040:048 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

26:040:049 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits, and he brought me by the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.

26:041:001 Afterward he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

26:041:002 And the breadth of the door was ten cubits; and the sides of the door were five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits.

26:041:003 Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits.

26:041:004 So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

26:041:005 After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

26:041:006 And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

26:041:007 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

26:041:008 I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

26:041:009 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.

26:041:010 And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

26:041:011 And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.

26:041:012 Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

26:041:013 So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

26:041:014 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

26:041:015 And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

26:041:016 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

26:041:017 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

26:041:018 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

26:041:019 So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.

26:041:020 From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

26:041:021 The posts of the temple were squared, and the face of the sanctuary; the appearance of the one as the appearance of the other.

26:041:022 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.

26:041:023 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

26:041:024 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

26:041:025 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

26:041:026 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

26:042:001 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

26:042:002 Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits.

26:042:003 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

26:042:004 And before the chambers was a walk to ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.

26:042:005 Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

26:042:006 For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

26:042:007 And the wall that was without over against the chambers, toward the utter court on the forepart of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.

26:042:008 For the length of the chambers that were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubits.

26:042:009 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.

26:042:010 The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

26:042:011 And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

26:042:012 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door in the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

26:042:013 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.

26:042:014 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people.

26:042:015 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.

26:042:016 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

26:042:017 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

26:042:018 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.

26:042:019 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

26:042:020 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

26:043:001 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:

26:043:002 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.

26:043:003 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

26:043:004 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

26:043:005 So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

26:043:006 And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.

26:043:007 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.

26:043:008 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

26:043:009 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

26:043:010 Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.

26:043:011 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

26:043:012 This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

26:043:013 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.

26:043:014 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

26:043:015 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

26:043:016 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof.

26:043:017 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.

26:043:018 And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

26:043:019 And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.

26:043:020 And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

26:043:021 Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.

26:043:022 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

26:043:023 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

26:043:024 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.

26:043:025 Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

26:043:026 Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.

26:043:027 And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD.

26:044:001 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

26:044:002 Then said the LORD unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

26:044:003 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD; he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

26:044:004 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.

26:044:005 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.

26:044:006 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

26:044:007 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.

26:044:008 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

26:044:009 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

26:044:010 And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

26:044:011 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

26:044:012 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

26:044:013 And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

26:044:014 But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

26:044:015 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

26:044:016 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

26:044:017 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.

26:044:018 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.

26:044:019 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

26:044:020 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

26:044:021 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

26:044:022 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.

26:044:023 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

26:044:024 And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

26:044:025 And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

26:044:026 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

26:044:027 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD.

26:044:028 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.

26:044:029 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering: and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.

26:044:030 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

26:044:031 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.

26:045:001 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

26:045:002 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.

26:045:003 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

26:045:004 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.

26:045:005 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

26:045:006 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

26:045:007 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city, before the oblation of the holy portion, and before the possession of the city, from the west side westward, and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.

26:045:008 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

26:045:009 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

26:045:010 Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

26:045:011 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

26:045:012 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

26:045:013 This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

26:045:014 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

26:045:015 And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.

26:045:016 All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

26:045:017 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

26:045:018 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

26:045:019 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

26:045:020 And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

26:045:021 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

26:045:022 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

26:045:023 And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.

26:045:024 And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.

26:045:025 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meat offering, and according to the oil.

26:046:001 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

26:046:002 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

26:046:003 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.

26:046:004 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

26:046:005 And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

26:046:006 And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.

26:046:007 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

26:046:008 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

26:046:009 But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

26:046:010 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

26:046:011 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

26:046:012 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

26:046:013 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.

26:046:014 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

26:046:015 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

26:046:016 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

26:046:017 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.

26:046:018 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

26:046:019 After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.

26:046:020 Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

26:046:021 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

26:046:022 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

26:046:023 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.

26:046:024 Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

26:047:001 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

26:047:002 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.

26:047:003 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

26:047:004 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.

26:047:005 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

26:047:006 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

26:047:007 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

26:047:008 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

26:047:009 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

26:047:010 And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

26:047:011 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

26:047:012 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

26:047:013 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

26:047:014 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

26:047:015 And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

26:047:016 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

26:047:017 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

26:047:018 And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

26:047:019 And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.

26:047:020 The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.

26:047:021 So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

26:047:022 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

26:047:023 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

26:048:001 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazarenan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.

26:048:002 And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.

26:048:003 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.

26:048:004 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.

26:048:005 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Ephraim.

26:048:006 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.

26:048:007 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.

26:048:008 And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

26:048:009 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length, and of ten thousand in breadth.

26:048:010 And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.

26:048:011 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

26:048:012 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.

26:048:013 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

26:048:014 And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the LORD.

26:048:015 And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

26:048:016 And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

26:048:017 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and fifty.

26:048:018 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.

26:048:019 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

26:048:020 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.

26:048:021 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

26:048:022 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

26:048:023 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side unto the west side, Benjamin shall have a portion.

26:048:024 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

26:048:025 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.

26:048:026 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion.

26:048:027 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion.

26:048:028 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

26:048:029 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.

26:048:030 And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

26:048:031 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

26:048:032 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred: and three gates; and one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan.

26:048:033 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

26:048:034 At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.

26:048:035 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

Book 27 Daniel

27:001:001 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

27:001:002 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

27:001:003 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes;

27:001:004 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.

27:001:005 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.

27:001:006 Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

27:001:007 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.

27:001:008 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

27:001:009 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.

27:001:010 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.

27:001:011 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

27:001:012 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.

27:001:013 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.

27:001:014 So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

27:001:015 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

27:001:016 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.

27:001:017 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

27:001:018 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

27:001:019 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.

27:001:020 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

27:001:021 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus.

27:002:001 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

27:002:002 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.

27:002:003 And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

27:002:004 Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.

27:002:005 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

27:002:006 But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.

27:002:007 They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.

27:002:008 The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

27:002:009 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

27:002:010 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

27:002:011 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

27:002:012 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

27:002:013 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

27:002:014 Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:

27:002:015 He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

27:002:016 Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.

27:002:017 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

27:002:018 That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

27:002:019 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

27:002:020 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:

27:002:021 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

27:002:022 He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

27:002:023 I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.

27:002:024 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.

27:002:025 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.

27:002:026 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?

27:002:027 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;

27:002:028 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;

27:002:029 As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.

27:002:030 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

27:002:031 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.

27:002:032 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,

27:002:033 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

27:002:034 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

27:002:035 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

27:002:036 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

27:002:037 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.

27:002:038 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.

27:002:039 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

27:002:040 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

27:002:041 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

27:002:042 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

27:002:043 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

27:002:044 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.

27:002:045 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

27:002:046 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

27:002:047 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

27:002:048 Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.

27:002:049 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel sat in the gate of the king.

27:003:001 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

27:003:002 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

27:003:003 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

27:003:004 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,

27:003:005 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

27:003:006 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

27:003:007 Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

27:003:008 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.

27:003:009 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever.

27:003:010 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:

27:003:011 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

27:003:012 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

27:003:013 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.

27:003:014 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?

27:003:015 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

27:003:016 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

27:003:017 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

27:003:018 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

27:003:019 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

27:003:020 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

27:003:021 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

27:003:022 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flames of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

27:003:023 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

27:003:024 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.

27:003:025 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.

27:003:026 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.

27:003:027 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

27:003:028 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

27:003:029 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

27:003:030 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.

27:004:001 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

27:004:002 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.

27:004:003 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

27:004:004 I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:

27:004:005 I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

27:004:006 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.

27:004:007 Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.

27:004:008 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,

27:004:009 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.

27:004:010 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

27:004:011 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

27:004:012 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

27:004:013 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;

27:004:014 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:

27:004:015 Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

27:004:016 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.

27:004:017 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.

27:004:018 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

27:004:019 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.

27:004:020 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;

27:004:021 Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:

27:004:022 It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

27:004:023 And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;

27:004:024 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:

27:004:025 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

27:004:026 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.

27:004:027 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

27:004:028 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.

27:004:029 At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon.

27:004:030 The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

27:004:031 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

27:004:032 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

27:004:033 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

27:004:034 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation:

27:004:035 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

27:004:036 At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.

27:004:037 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

27:005:001 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

27:005:002 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.

27:005:003 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.

27:005:004 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

27:005:005 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

27:005:006 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

27:005:007 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

27:005:008 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

27:005:009 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

27:005:010 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:

27:005:011 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

27:005:012 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.

27:005:013 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?

27:005:014 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.

27:005:015 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:

27:005:016 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.

27:005:017 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

27:005:018 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:

27:005:019 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.

27:005:020 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

27:005:021 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

27:005:022 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

27:005:023 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

27:005:024 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.

27:005:025 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

27:005:026 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

27:005:027 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

27:005:028 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

27:005:029 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

27:005:030 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

27:005:031 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

27:006:001 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;

27:006:002 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.

27:006:003 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

27:006:004 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

27:006:005 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

27:006:006 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.

27:006:007 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

27:006:008 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

27:006:009 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

27:006:010 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

27:006:011 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

27:006:012 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

27:006:013 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.

27:006:014 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

27:006:015 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

27:006:016 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

27:006:017 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.

27:006:018 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

27:006:019 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

27:006:020 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

27:006:021 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

27:006:022 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

27:006:023 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

27:006:024 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

27:006:025 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.

27:006:026 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

27:006:027 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

27:006:028 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

27:007:001 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

27:007:002 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

27:007:003 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

27:007:004 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

27:007:005 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

27:007:006 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

27:007:007 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

27:007:008 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

27:007:009 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

27:007:010 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

27:007:011 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

27:007:012 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

27:007:013 I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

27:007:014 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

27:007:015 I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

27:007:016 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

27:007:017 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

27:007:018 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

27:007:019 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;

27:007:020 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

27:007:021 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

27:007:022 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

27:007:023 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

27:007:024 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

27:007:025 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

27:007:026 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

27:007:027 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

27:007:028 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

27:008:001 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.

27:008:002 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.

27:008:003 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.

27:008:004 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.

27:008:005 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

27:008:006 And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.

27:008:007 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.

27:008:008 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.

27:008:009 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.

27:008:010 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.

27:008:011 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down.

27:008:012 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.

27:008:013 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?

27:008:014 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

27:008:015 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.

27:008:016 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

27:008:017 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.

27:008:018 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.

27:008:019 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.

27:008:020 The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.

27:008:021 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

27:008:022 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.

27:008:023 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

27:008:024 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.

27:008:025 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

27:008:026 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

27:008:027 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

27:009:001 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

27:009:002 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

27:009:003 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

27:009:004 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

27:009:005 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

27:009:006 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

27:009:007 O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

27:009:008 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

27:009:009 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

27:009:010 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

27:009:011 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

27:009:012 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

27:009:013 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

27:009:014 Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

27:009:015 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

27:009:016 O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

27:009:017 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

27:009:018 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

27:009:019 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

27:009:020 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;

27:009:021 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

27:009:022 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

27:009:023 At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

27:009:024 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

27:009:025 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

27:009:026 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

27:009:027 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

27:010:001 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

27:010:002 In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.

27:010:003 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

27:010:004 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;

27:010:005 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:

27:010:006 His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

27:010:007 And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.

27:010:008 Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.

27:010:009 Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.

27:010:010 And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.

27:010:011 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.

27:010:012 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

27:010:013 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

27:010:014 Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.

27:010:015 And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.

27:010:016 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.

27:010:017 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.

27:010:018 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,

27:010:019 And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.

27:010:020 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come.

27:010:021 But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

27:011:001 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.

27:011:002 And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.

27:011:003 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

27:011:004 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.

27:011:005 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.

27:011:006 And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.

27:011:007 But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

27:011:008 And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.

27:011:009 So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land.

27:011:010 But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

27:011:011 And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.

27:011:012 And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up; and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be strengthened by it.

27:011:013 For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.

27:011:014 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

27:011:015 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

27:011:016 But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious land, which by his hand shall be consumed.

27:011:017 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.

27:011:018 After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.

27:011:019 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

27:011:020 Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

27:011:021 And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

27:011:022 And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.

27:011:023 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.

27:011:024 He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

27:011:025 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him.

27:011:026 Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

27:011:027 And both of these kings' hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

27:011:028 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land.

27:011:029 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter.

27:011:030 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.

27:011:031 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

27:011:032 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

27:011:033 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

27:011:034 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

27:011:035 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

27:011:036 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

27:011:037 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

27:011:038 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.

27:011:039 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.

27:011:040 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

27:011:041 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

27:011:042 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

27:011:043 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

27:011:044 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.

27:011:045 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

27:012:001 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

27:012:002 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

27:012:003 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

27:012:004 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

27:012:005 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.

27:012:006 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

27:012:007 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

27:012:008 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

27:012:009 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

27:012:010 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

27:012:011 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

27:012:012 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

27:012:013 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Book 28 Hosea

28:001:001 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

28:001:002 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

28:001:003 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

28:001:004 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

28:001:005 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.

28:001:006 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

28:001:007 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

28:001:008 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

28:001:009 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

28:001:010 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

28:001:011 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

28:002:001 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

28:002:002 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

28:002:003 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

28:002:004 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

28:002:005 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

28:002:006 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.

28:002:007 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

28:002:008 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

28:002:009 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

28:002:010 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

28:002:011 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

28:002:012 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

28:002:013 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

28:002:014 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

28:002:015 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

28:002:016 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

28:002:017 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

28:002:018 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

28:002:019 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

28:002:020 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

28:002:021 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

28:002:022 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

28:002:023 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

28:003:001 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

28:003:002 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

28:003:003 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

28:003:004 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

28:003:005 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.

28:004:001 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

28:004:002 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

28:004:003 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

28:004:004 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

28:004:005 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

28:004:006 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

28:004:007 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

28:004:008 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

28:004:009 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

28:004:010 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.

28:004:011 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

28:004:012 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

28:004:013 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

28:004:014 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

28:004:015 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.

28:004:016 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

28:004:017 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

28:004:018 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

28:004:019 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

28:005:001 Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

28:005:002 And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

28:005:003 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

28:005:004 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

28:005:005 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity: Judah also shall fall with them.

28:005:006 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

28:005:007 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

28:005:008 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

28:005:009 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.

28:005:010 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

28:005:011 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

28:005:012 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

28:005:013 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

28:005:014 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

28:005:015 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

28:006:001 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

28:006:002 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

28:006:003 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

28:006:004 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

28:006:005 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

28:006:006 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

28:006:007 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

28:006:008 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

28:006:009 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

28:006:010 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

28:006:011 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

28:007:001 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

28:007:002 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

28:007:003 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

28:007:004 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

28:007:005 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

28:007:006 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

28:007:007 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

28:007:008 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

28:007:009 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

28:007:010 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

28:007:011 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

28:007:012 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

28:007:013 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

28:007:014 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

28:007:015 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

28:007:016 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

28:008:001 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

28:008:002 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

28:008:003 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

28:008:004 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

28:008:005 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

28:008:006 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

28:008:007 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

28:008:008 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

28:008:009 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

28:008:010 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.

28:008:011 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

28:008:012 I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

28:008:013 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

28:008:014 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

28:009:001 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

28:009:002 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

28:009:003 They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

28:009:004 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

28:009:005 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

28:009:006 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

28:009:007 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

28:009:008 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

28:009:009 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

28:009:010 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

28:009:011 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

28:009:012 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

28:009:013 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

28:009:014 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

28:009:015 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

28:009:016 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

28:009:017 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

28:010:001 Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

28:010:002 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

28:010:003 For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

28:010:004 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

28:010:005 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

28:010:006 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

28:010:007 As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

28:010:008 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

28:010:009 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

28:010:010 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.

28:010:011 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

28:010:012 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

28:010:013 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

28:010:014 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Betharbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

28:010:015 So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.

28:011:001 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

28:011:002 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

28:011:003 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

28:011:004 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

28:011:005 He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

28:011:006 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

28:011:007 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

28:011:008 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

28:011:009 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

28:011:010 They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

28:011:011 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

28:011:012 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

28:012:001 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

28:012:002 The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

28:012:003 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

28:012:004 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;

28:012:005 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

28:012:006 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually.

28:012:007 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

28:012:008 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

28:012:009 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

28:012:010 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

28:012:011 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

28:012:012 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

28:012:013 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

28:012:014 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.

28:013:001 When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

28:013:002 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

28:013:003 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

28:013:004 Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

28:013:005 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

28:013:006 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

28:013:007 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

28:013:008 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

28:013:009 O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.

28:013:010 I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

28:013:011 I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

28:013:012 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

28:013:013 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

28:013:014 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

28:013:015 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

28:013:016 Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

28:014:001 O israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

28:014:002 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

28:014:003 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

28:014:004 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

28:014:005 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

28:014:006 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

28:014:007 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

28:014:008 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

28:014:009 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

Book 29 Joel

29:001:001 The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

29:001:002 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

29:001:003 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

29:001:004 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

29:001:005 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

29:001:006 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

29:001:007 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

29:001:008 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

29:001:009 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

29:001:010 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

29:001:011 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

29:001:012 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

29:001:013 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

29:001:014 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

29:001:015 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

29:001:016 Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

29:001:017 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

29:001:018 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

29:001:019 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

29:001:020 The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

29:002:001 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

29:002:002 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

29:002:003 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

29:002:004 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

29:002:005 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

29:002:006 Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

29:002:007 They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

29:002:008 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

29:002:009 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

29:002:010 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

29:002:011 And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

29:002:012 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

29:002:013 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

29:002:014 Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

29:002:015 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

29:002:016 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

29:002:017 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

29:002:018 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

29:002:019 Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:

29:002:020 But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

29:002:021 Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.

29:002:022 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

29:002:023 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

29:002:024 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

29:002:025 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

29:002:026 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

29:002:027 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

29:002:028 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

29:002:029 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

29:002:030 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

29:002:031 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.

29:002:032 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.

29:003:001 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

29:003:002 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

29:003:003 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

29:003:004 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

29:003:005 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

29:003:006 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

29:003:007 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

29:003:008 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

29:003:009 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

29:003:010 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

29:003:011 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

29:003:012 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

29:003:013 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

29:003:014 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

29:003:015 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

29:003:016 The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

29:003:017 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

29:003:018 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.

29:003:019 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

29:003:020 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

29:003:021 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.

Book 30 Amos

30:001:001 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

30:001:002 And he said, The LORD will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.

30:001:003 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

30:001:004 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.

30:001:005 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.

30:001:006 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

30:001:007 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof:

30:001:008 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn mine hand against Ekron: and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord GOD.

30:001:009 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

30:001:010 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

30:001:011 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:

30:001:012 But I will send a fire upon Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

30:001:013 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

30:001:014 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:

30:001:015 And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.

30:002:001 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

30:002:002 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:

30:002:003 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

30:002:004 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:

30:002:005 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

30:002:006 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;

30:002:007 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

30:002:008 And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.

30:002:009 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

30:002:010 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

30:002:011 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the LORD.

30:002:012 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

30:002:013 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.

30:002:014 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

30:002:015 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

30:002:016 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

30:003:001 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

30:003:002 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

30:003:003 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

30:003:004 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

30:003:005 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

30:003:006 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

30:003:007 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

30:003:008 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

30:003:009 Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

30:003:010 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

30:003:011 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.

30:003:012 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

30:003:013 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

30:003:014 That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

30:003:015 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

30:004:001 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

30:004:002 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

30:004:003 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the LORD.

30:004:004 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

30:004:005 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

30:004:006 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

30:004:007 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

30:004:008 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

30:004:009 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

30:004:010 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

30:004:011 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

30:004:012 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

30:004:013 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.

30:005:001 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

30:005:002 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

30:005:003 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.

30:005:004 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

30:005:005 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

30:005:006 Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

30:005:007 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

30:005:008 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

30:005:009 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

30:005:010 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

30:005:011 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

30:005:012 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

30:005:013 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.

30:005:014 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

30:005:015 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

30:005:016 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

30:005:017 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD.

30:005:018 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

30:005:019 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

30:005:020 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

30:005:021 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

30:005:022 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

30:005:023 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

30:005:024 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

30:005:025 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

30:005:026 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

30:005:027 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

30:006:001 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

30:006:002 Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

30:006:003 Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

30:006:004 That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

30:006:005 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

30:006:006 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

30:006:007 Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

30:006:008 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

30:006:009 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

30:006:010 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.

30:006:011 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

30:006:012 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

30:006:013 Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

30:006:014 But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

30:007:001 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

30:007:002 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

30:007:003 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

30:007:004 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.

30:007:005 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

30:007:006 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

30:007:007 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

30:007:008 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

30:007:009 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

30:007:010 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

30:007:011 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

30:007:012 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

30:007:013 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

30:007:014 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:

30:007:015 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

30:007:016 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

30:007:017 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

30:008:001 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

30:008:002 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

30:008:003 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

30:008:004 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

30:008:005 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

30:008:006 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

30:008:007 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

30:008:008 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

30:008:009 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

30:008:010 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

30:008:011 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

30:008:012 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

30:008:013 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.

30:008:014 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

30:009:001 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

30:009:002 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

30:009:003 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

30:009:004 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

30:009:005 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

30:009:006 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

30:009:007 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

30:009:008 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

30:009:009 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

30:009:010 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

30:009:011 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

30:009:012 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

30:009:013 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

30:009:014 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

30:009:015 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

Book 31 Obadiah

31:001:001 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

31:001:002 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

31:001:003 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

31:001:004 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

31:001:005 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

31:001:006 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

31:001:007 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; that they eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

31:001:008 Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

31:001:009 And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

31:001:010 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

31:001:011 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

31:001:012 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

31:001:013 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

31:001:014 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

31:001:015 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

31:001:016 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

31:001:017 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

31:001:018 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

31:001:019 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

31:001:020 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

31:001:021 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.

Book 32 Jonah

32:001:001 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

32:001:002 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

32:001:003 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

32:001:004 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

32:001:005 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

32:001:006 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

32:001:007 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

32:001:008 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?

32:001:009 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

32:001:010 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

32:001:011 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

32:001:012 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

32:001:013 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

32:001:014 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

32:001:015 So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

32:001:016 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.

32:001:017 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

32:002:001 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

32:002:002 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

32:002:003 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

32:002:004 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

32:002:005 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

32:002:006 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

32:002:007 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

32:002:008 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

32:002:009 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.

32:002:010 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

32:003:001 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

32:003:002 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

32:003:003 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

32:003:004 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

32:003:005 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

32:003:006 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

32:003:007 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

32:003:008 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

32:003:009 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

32:003:010 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

32:004:001 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

32:004:002 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

32:004:003 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

32:004:004 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

32:004:005 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

32:004:006 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

32:004:007 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

32:004:008 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

32:004:009 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

32:004:010 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

32:004:011 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Book 33 Micah

33:001:001 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

33:001:002 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.

33:001:003 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

33:001:004 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

33:001:005 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

33:001:006 Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

33:001:007 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

33:001:008 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

33:001:009 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

33:001:010 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

33:001:011 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

33:001:012 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

33:001:013 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

33:001:014 Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

33:001:015 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

33:001:016 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

33:002:001 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

33:002:002 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

33:002:003 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

33:002:004 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

33:002:005 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD.

33:002:006 Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.

33:002:007 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

33:002:008 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

33:002:009 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.

33:002:010 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

33:002:011 If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

33:002:012 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

33:002:013 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

33:003:001 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

33:003:002 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

33:003:003 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

33:003:004 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

33:003:005 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

33:003:006 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

33:003:007 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

33:003:008 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

33:003:009 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

33:003:010 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

33:003:011 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

33:003:012 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

33:004:001 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.

33:004:002 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

33:004:003 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

33:004:004 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

33:004:005 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

33:004:006 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

33:004:007 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

33:004:008 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

33:004:009 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

33:004:010 Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

33:004:011 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

33:004:012 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

33:004:013 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

33:005:001 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

33:005:002 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

33:005:003 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

33:005:004 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

33:005:005 And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

33:005:006 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

33:005:007 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.

33:005:008 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

33:005:009 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.

33:005:010 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots:

33:005:011 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

33:005:012 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

33:005:013 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

33:005:014 And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

33:005:015 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

33:006:001 Hear ye now what the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

33:006:002 Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

33:006:003 O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

33:006:004 For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

33:006:005 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.

33:006:006 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

33:006:007 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

33:006:008 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

33:006:009 The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

33:006:010 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

33:006:011 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

33:006:012 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

33:006:013 Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

33:006:014 Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword.

33:006:015 Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

33:006:016 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

33:007:001 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

33:007:002 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

33:007:003 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

33:007:004 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

33:007:005 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

33:007:006 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

33:007:007 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

33:007:008 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

33:007:009 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

33:007:010 Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

33:007:011 In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

33:007:012 In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

33:007:013 Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

33:007:014 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

33:007:015 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

33:007:016 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

33:007:017 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

33:007:018 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

33:007:019 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

33:007:020 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

Book 34 Nahum

34:001:001 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

34:001:002 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

34:001:003 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

34:001:004 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

34:001:005 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

34:001:006 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

34:001:007 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

34:001:008 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

34:001:009 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

34:001:010 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

34:001:011 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

34:001:012 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

34:001:013 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

34:001:014 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

34:001:015 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

34:002:001 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

34:002:002 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

34:002:003 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

34:002:004 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

34:002:005 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

34:002:006 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

34:002:007 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

34:002:008 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

34:002:009 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

34:002:010 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

34:002:011 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

34:002:012 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

34:002:013 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

34:003:001 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

34:003:002 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

34:003:003 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

34:003:004 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

34:003:005 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

34:003:006 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

34:003:007 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

34:003:008 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

34:003:009 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

34:003:010 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

34:003:011 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

34:003:012 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

34:003:013 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

34:003:014 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

34:003:015 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.

34:003:016 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.

34:003:017 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

34:003:018 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

34:003:019 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

Book 35 Habakkuk

35:001:001 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

35:001:002 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

35:001:003 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

35:001:004 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.

35:001:005 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

35:001:006 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.

35:001:007 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

35:001:008 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

35:001:009 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

35:001:010 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

35:001:011 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

35:001:012 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

35:001:013 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

35:001:014 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

35:001:015 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

35:001:016 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

35:001:017 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

35:002:001 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

35:002:002 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

35:002:003 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

35:002:004 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

35:002:005 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

35:002:006 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

35:002:007 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

35:002:008 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

35:002:009 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

35:002:010 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

35:002:011 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

35:002:012 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

35:002:013 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

35:002:014 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

35:002:015 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

35:002:016 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

35:002:017 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

35:002:018 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

35:002:019 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

35:002:020 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

35:003:001 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

35:003:002 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

35:003:003 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

35:003:004 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

35:003:005 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

35:003:006 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

35:003:007 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

35:003:008 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?

35:003:009 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

35:003:010 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

35:003:011 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

35:003:012 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

35:003:013 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

35:003:014 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

35:003:015 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

35:003:016 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

35:003:017 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

35:003:018 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

35:003:019 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Book 36 Zephaniah

36:001:001 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.

36:001:002 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.

36:001:003 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

36:001:004 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

36:001:005 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

36:001:006 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.

36:001:007 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.

36:001:008 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

36:001:009 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

36:001:010 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

36:001:011 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

36:001:012 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

36:001:013 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

36:001:014 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.

36:001:015 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

36:001:016 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

36:001:017 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

36:001:018 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

36:002:001 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

36:002:002 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you.

36:002:003 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.

36:002:004 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

36:002:005 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

36:002:006 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

36:002:007 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

36:002:008 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

36:002:009 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

36:002:010 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

36:002:011 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

36:002:012 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

36:002:013 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

36:002:014 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.

36:002:015 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

36:003:001 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

36:003:002 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

36:003:003 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

36:003:004 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

36:003:005 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

36:003:006 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

36:003:007 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

36:003:008 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

36:003:009 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

36:003:010 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

36:003:011 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

36:003:012 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

36:003:013 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

36:003:014 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

36:003:015 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

36:003:016 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.

36:003:017 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

36:003:018 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

36:003:019 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.

36:003:020 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.

Book 37 Haggai

37:001:001 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

37:001:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.

37:001:003 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

37:001:004 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

37:001:005 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

37:001:006 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

37:001:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

37:001:008 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

37:001:009 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

37:001:010 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

37:001:011 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

37:001:012 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

37:001:013 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.

37:001:014 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

37:001:015 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

37:002:001 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

37:002:002 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,

37:002:003 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?

37:002:004 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:

37:002:005 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

37:002:006 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

37:002:007 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

37:002:008 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

37:002:009 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

37:002:010 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

37:002:011 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

37:002:012 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

37:002:013 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

37:002:014 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

37:002:015 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

37:002:016 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

37:002:017 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

37:002:018 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.

37:002:019 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

37:002:020 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

37:002:021 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

37:002:022 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

37:002:023 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.

Book 38 Zechariah

38:001:001 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

38:001:002 The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

38:001:003 Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

38:001:004 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

38:001:005 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

38:001:006 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

38:001:007 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

38:001:008 I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

38:001:009 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.

38:001:010 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

38:001:011 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

38:001:012 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

38:001:013 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

38:001:014 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

38:001:015 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

38:001:016 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

38:001:017 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

38:001:018 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

38:001:019 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

38:001:020 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.

38:001:021 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

38:002:001 I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.

38:002:002 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

38:002:003 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

38:002:004 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:

38:002:005 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

38:002:006 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.

38:002:007 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

38:002:008 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

38:002:009 For, behold, I will shake mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me.

38:002:010 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.

38:002:011 And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

38:002:012 And the LORD shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

38:002:013 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.

38:003:001 And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

38:003:002 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

38:003:003 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

38:003:004 And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

38:003:005 And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

38:003:006 And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,

38:003:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

38:003:008 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.

38:003:009 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

38:003:010 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

38:004:001 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

38:004:002 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:

38:004:003 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

38:004:004 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

38:004:005 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

38:004:006 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

38:004:007 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

38:004:008 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

38:004:009 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.

38:004:010 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

38:004:011 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

38:004:012 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

38:004:013 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

38:004:014 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.

38:005:001 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

38:005:002 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

38:005:003 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

38:005:004 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

38:005:005 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

38:005:006 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

38:005:007 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

38:005:008 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

38:005:009 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

38:005:010 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

38:005:011 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

38:006:001 And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

38:006:002 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

38:006:003 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.

38:006:004 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?

38:006:005 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the LORD of all the earth.

38:006:006 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

38:006:007 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.

38:006:008 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.

38:006:009 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

38:006:010 Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;

38:006:011 Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest;

38:006:012 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:

38:006:013 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

38:006:014 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.

38:006:015 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.

38:007:001 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;

38:007:002 When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,

38:007:003 And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

38:007:004 Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,

38:007:005 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

38:007:006 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

38:007:007 Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

38:007:008 And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying,

38:007:009 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

38:007:010 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

38:007:011 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

38:007:012 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.

38:007:013 Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:

38:007:014 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

38:008:001 Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

38:008:002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

38:008:003 Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.

38:008:004 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

38:008:005 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

38:008:006 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.

38:008:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

38:008:008 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

38:008:009 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

38:008:010 For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

38:008:011 But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.

38:008:012 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

38:008:013 And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

38:008:014 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:

38:008:015 So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

38:008:016 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

38:008:017 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

38:008:018 And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,

38:008:019 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

38:008:020 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:

38:008:021 And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

38:008:022 Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

38:008:023 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

38:009:001 The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.

38:009:002 And Hamath also shall border thereby; Tyrus, and Zidon, though it be very wise.

38:009:003 And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

38:009:004 Behold, the LORD will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

38:009:005 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.

38:009:006 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

38:009:007 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

38:009:008 And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

38:009:009 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

38:009:010 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

38:009:011 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

38:009:012 Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

38:009:013 When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

38:009:014 And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

38:009:015 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

38:009:016 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

38:009:017 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

38:010:001 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

38:010:002 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

38:010:003 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

38:010:004 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

38:010:005 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

38:010:006 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.

38:010:007 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the LORD.

38:010:008 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased.

38:010:009 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

38:010:010 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them.

38:010:011 And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

38:010:012 And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.

38:011:001 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

38:011:002 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

38:011:003 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

38:011:004 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;

38:011:005 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

38:011:006 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

38:011:007 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

38:011:008 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

38:011:009 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.

38:011:010 And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

38:011:011 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

38:011:012 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

38:011:013 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

38:011:014 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

38:011:015 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

38:011:016 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

38:011:017 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

38:012:001 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

38:012:002 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

38:012:003 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

38:012:004 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

38:012:005 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

38:012:006 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

38:012:007 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

38:012:008 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

38:012:009 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

38:012:010 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

38:012:011 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

38:012:012 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

38:012:013 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

38:012:014 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

38:013:001 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

38:013:002 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

38:013:003 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

38:013:004 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

38:013:005 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

38:013:006 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

38:013:007 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

38:013:008 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

38:013:009 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

38:014:001 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

38:014:002 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

38:014:003 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

38:014:004 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

38:014:005 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.

38:014:006 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

38:014:007 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

38:014:008 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

38:014:009 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.

38:014:010 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

38:014:011 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

38:014:012 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

38:014:013 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

38:014:014 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

38:014:015 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

38:014:016 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

38:014:017 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

38:014:018 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

38:014:019 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

38:014:020 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

38:014:021 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

Book 39 Malachi

39:001:001 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

39:001:002 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

39:001:003 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

39:001:004 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

39:001:005 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

39:001:006 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

39:001:007 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

39:001:008 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.

39:001:009 And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.

39:001:010 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

39:001:011 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:001:012 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

39:001:013 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

39:001:014 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

39:002:001 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

39:002:002 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

39:002:003 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

39:002:004 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:002:005 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

39:002:006 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

39:002:007 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

39:002:008 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:002:009 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

39:002:010 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

39:002:011 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

39:002:012 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

39:002:013 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.

39:002:014 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

39:002:015 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

39:002:016 For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

39:002:017 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

39:003:001 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:003:002 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

39:003:003 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

39:003:004 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

39:003:005 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:003:006 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

39:003:007 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

39:003:008 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

39:003:009 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

39:003:010 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

39:003:011 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:003:012 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:003:013 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

39:003:014 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

39:003:015 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

39:003:016 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

39:003:017 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

39:003:018 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

39:004:001 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

39:004:002 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

39:004:003 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

39:004:004 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

39:004:005 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

39:004:006 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.