Job 27 Cross References - ACV

¹ And Job again took up his discourse, and said, ² As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul. ³ (For my life is yet whole in me. And the spirit of God is in my nostrils.) ⁴ Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor shall my tongue utter deceit. ⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you. Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me. ⁶ I hold fast my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. ⁷ Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous. ⁸ For what is the hope of the profane, though he gets him gain, when God takes away his soul? ⁹ Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? ¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times? ¹¹ I will teach you concerning the hand of God. That which is with the Almighty I will not conceal. ¹² Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain? ¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his sons be multiplied, it is for the sword. And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those who remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no lamentation. ¹⁶ Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay, ¹⁷ he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. ¹⁸ He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes. ¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers. He opens his eyes, and he is not. ²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night. ²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs, and it sweeps him out of his place. ²² For God shall hurl at him, and not spare. He would gladly flee out of his hand. ²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

⁷ And he took up his oracle, and said, From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel.

³ And he took up his oracle, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,

¹⁵ And he took up his oracle, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man whose eye was closed says,

¹ And Job again took up his discourse, and said,

⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

² I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter dark sayings of old,

⁷ The legs of a lame man hang loose. So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

²¹ but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of LORD,

²⁰ And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. ²¹ I went out full, and LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

¹³ Remain this night, and it shall be in the morning that if he will perform to thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part. But if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then I will do the part of a kinsman to thee, as LORD lives. Lie down until the morning.

³⁹ For, as LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

⁴⁵ And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it. As LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he did not die.

²¹ And, behold, I will send the lad, saying, Go, find the arrows. If I say to the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them, and come, for there is peace to thee and no hurt, as LORD lives.

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, since LORD has withheld thee from blood guiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

³⁴ For in very deed, as LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting thee, unless thou had hastened and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.

²⁷ And Joab said, As God lives unless thou had spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone up every man from following his brother.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

¹⁵ And Elijah said, As LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.

²⁷ And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away, but the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is vexed within her, and LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me.

¹⁸ He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

³ Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right.

²⁷ Why do thou say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from LORD. And the justice due to me is passed away from my God?

² And thou shall swear, As LORD lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. And the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him they shall glory.

² And though they say, As LORD lives, surely they swear falsely.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As LORD lives, even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

¹¹ Say to them, As I live, says the lord LORD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways, for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

⁷ And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

⁸ But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

⁴ The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for how is he to be accounted of?

²⁵ nor is he served by the hands of men, as needing anything, since he himself gives to all life, and breath, with all things.

²⁸ Now therefore be pleased to look upon me, for truly I shall not lie to your face.

⁷ Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

⁶ Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.

⁵⁵ And ye do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.

¹⁰ The truth of Christ is in me that this pride in me will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

¹ If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the iniquitous.

⁹ Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.

¹⁵ Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

³ His anger was also kindled against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

⁷ And it was so, that, after LORD had spoken these words to Job, 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 has.

¹⁵ He who justifies a wicked man, and he who condemns a righteous man, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch I opposed him to the face, because he was blameworthy.

³ And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou moved me against him, to destroy him without cause.

²⁰ LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

¹⁶ And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always non-stumbling before God and men.

¹¹ I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.

²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

³² And the king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And the Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.

¹⁹ Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, may the dream be to those who hate thee, and the interpretation of it to thine adversaries.

¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

²⁰ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.

¹⁶ This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before him.

³⁴ For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

⁵ that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

³ Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the profane. Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings? ¹⁵ He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

²⁶ For what does it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

¹³ Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

³⁶ For what will it profit a man if he should gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? ³⁷ Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

²⁵ For what is a man benefited, having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself?

²⁰ But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be? ²¹ So is he who stores up for himself, and is not being rich toward God.

⁹ But those who want to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which sink men in destruction and ruin. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹ Go now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that are approaching. ² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver have cankered, and their corrosion will be testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. Ye have hoarded in the last days.

¹² There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³ Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.

⁴¹ They cried, but there was none to save, even to LORD, but he answered them not.

¹⁸ If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.

⁷ When he is judged, let him come forth guilty, and let his prayer be turned into sin.

²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me,

⁹ He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

¹¹ Therefore thus says LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape. And they shall cry to me, but I will not hearken to them.

¹² When they fast, I will not hear their cry. And when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

¹⁸ Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.

¹⁴ And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

⁴ Then they shall cry to LORD, but he will not answer them. Yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

¹³ And it has come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said LORD of hosts.

²⁵ From the time the house-ruler has risen up, and has closed the door, and ye begin to stand outside, and to knock the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and having answered, he will say to you, I know not where ye are from,

³¹ And we know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any man is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to this man.

³ Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.

²⁶ For then shall thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shall lift up thy face to God. ²⁷ Thou shall make thy prayer to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shall pay thy vows.

⁴ Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer. ³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in LORD. I will joy in the God of my salvation.

²¹ yet he has no root in himself, instead it is temporary. And when tribulation or persecution develops because of the word, straightaway he is caused to stumble.

¹ And he also spoke a parable to them about it being necessary to always pray, and not to give up,

² a devout man, and fearing God with all his house, and doing many charities for the people, and beseeching God always.

¹⁸ praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

¹⁷ Pray without ceasing.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land where ye go in to possess it.

³ Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands. ⁴ Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.

¹⁰ And be it still my consolation, yea, let me exult (in pain that does not spare), that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

⁸ But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. ⁹ It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice. ¹⁰ Therefore I said, Hearken to me, I also will show my opinion.

¹⁷ O God, thou have taught me from my youth, and I have declared thy wondrous works until now.

¹¹ For LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

²⁰ How I kept back nothing of these things that are beneficial, not to inform you, and to teach you in public, and from house to house,

²⁵ How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove? ²⁶ Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind? ²⁷ Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend. ²⁸ Now therefore be pleased to look upon me, for truly I shall not lie to your face. ²⁹ Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

⁴ But ye are forgers of lies. Ye are all physicians of no value. ⁵ O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom. ⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. ⁷ Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him? ⁸ Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God? ⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?

² Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.

² How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? ³ These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

³ Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt? ²⁹ Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences, ³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

² How thou have helped him who is without power! How thou have saved the arm that has no strength! ³ How thou have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge! ⁴ To whom have thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

¹⁴ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

¹ For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them. ² All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man, and to the clean man, and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man, so is the sinner, and he who swears, as he who fears an oath. ³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to 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.

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. ²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ²² He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword. ²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. ²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty. ²⁶ He runs upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers, ²⁷ because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins. ²⁸ And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of God's mouth he shall go away. ³¹ Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense. ³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree. ³⁴ For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

¹⁹ For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. ²⁰ Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save any of that in which he delights. ²¹ There was nothing left that he did not devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. ²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him. ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating. ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through. ²⁵ He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body, yea, the glittering point comes out of his gall. Terrors are upon him. ²⁶ All darkness is laid up for his treasures. A fire not blown shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent. ²⁷ The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him. ²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath. ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by God.

⁶ He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

²² Do not rob a poor man, because he is poor, nor oppress an afflicted man in the gate. ²³ For LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those who despoil them.

¹³ But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! It is ill with him, for what his hands have done shall be done to him.

⁵ 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 the false swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says LORD of hosts.

⁴ Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. ⁵ Ye have lived in luxury on the earth, and were self-indulgent. Ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. ⁶ Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the righteous man. He is not hostile to you.

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.

³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people. And thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day, and there shall be nothing in the power of thy hand.

⁴¹ Thou shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine, for they shall go into captivity.

⁵ Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread, and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. Yea, the barren has borne seven, and she who has many sons languishes.

⁷ And thou shall smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. ⁸ For the whole house of Ahab shall perish. And I will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

⁶ Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my side, and if ye will hearken to my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city who reared them. ⁷ And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel. ⁸ And a messenger came, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning. ⁹ And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him. But who smote all these? ¹⁰ Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of LORD, which LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for LORD has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.

¹¹ And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

⁵ And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would to those who hated them. ⁶ And in Shushan the palace the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. ⁷ And they killed Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, ⁸ and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, ⁹ and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha, ¹⁰ the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they did not lay their hand on the spoil.

²² He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

¹⁰ His sons shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall give back his wealth.

¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ¹² They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

¹³ Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

¹³ Ephraim, just as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place, but Ephraim shall bring out his sons to the slayer. ¹⁴ Give them, O LORD-what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

²⁹ Because, behold, the days are coming, during which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and the bellies that gave no birth, and the breasts that did not suckle.

¹⁰ therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam as a man sweeps away dung, till it be all gone. ¹¹ He who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat, and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat, for LORD has spoken it.

³ behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ⁴ He of Baasha who dies in the city shall the dogs eat, and he of his who dies in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.

²¹ Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel. ²² And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which thou have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin. ²³ And LORD spoke also of Jezebel, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the rampart of Jezreel. ²⁴ He who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat, and he who dies in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

¹⁸ Therefore thus says 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!

²⁷ And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars he made to be as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

²⁴ Then thou shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

⁶ Shall not all these take up a derision against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him who increases that which is not his (how long?) and who loads himself with pledges!

³ And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,

² Your wealth has decayed, and your garments have become moth-eaten.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

⁸ He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

²⁶ For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

¹⁴ whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web. ¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a shed in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

¹² My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me.

⁸ For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations.

⁶ And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and the priest.

¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs, and to him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

⁸ The eye of him who sees me shall behold me no more. Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

²² Those who hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

¹⁰ But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

¹² so man lies down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. ¹³ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me! ¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come. ¹⁵ Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.

⁷ yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, Where is he? ⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. ⁹ The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

²³ One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. ²⁴ His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened. ²⁵ And another man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. ²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.

³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

²⁴ They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

²³ For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

¹⁹ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

² And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered, nor be buried. They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

¹² Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight, that LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

³⁵ And it came to pass that night, that the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.

¹⁸ that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?

¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

²⁰ In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away without hand.

⁴ The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of lawlessness made me afraid.

⁷ Deep calls to deep at the noise of thy waterfalls. All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. ¹⁵ Let not the water flood overwhelm me, nor let the deep swallow me up. And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

³ For thou cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round about me. All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

²³ And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth, and LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt. ²⁴ So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. ²⁵ And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote all that was in the field, both man and beast, and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

¹⁰ He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him any more.

¹⁵ So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.

¹⁷ I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

¹⁵ Though he be fruitful among his brothers, an east wind shall come, the breath of LORD coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up. He shall make spoil of the treasure of all goodly vessels.

³ LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty. LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. ⁴ He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes. ⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is up heaved at his presence. Yea, the world, and all who dwell therein. ⁶ Who can stand before his indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him. ⁷ LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him. ⁸ But with an over running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

²⁷ And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell. And great was the fall of it.

¹⁴ For this time I will send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, that thou may know that there is none like me in all the earth.

²⁵ And he took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them with difficulty, so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for LORD fights for them against the Egyptians. ²⁶ And LORD said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. ²⁷ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared, and the Egyptians fled against it, and LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. ²⁸ And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the army of Pharaoh who went in after them into the sea, there remained not so much as one of them.

²⁰ LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.

²³ I will heap evils upon them. I will spend my arrows upon them,

¹¹ And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah, and they died. More died with the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.

¹⁷ However Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. ¹⁸ And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug. ¹⁹ And he said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. ²⁰ And he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and inquires of thee, and says, Is there any man here? that thou shall say, No. ²¹ Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, for he was in a deep sleep, so he fainted and died.

²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through.

³ 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?

¹⁴ And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says LORD. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

¹¹ Therefore, as I live, says the lord LORD, surely, because thou have defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore I also will diminish thee, nor shall my eye spare. And I also will have no pity.

⁵ And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite. Let not your eye spare, nor have ye pity. ⁶ Kill utterly the old man, the young man, and the virgin, and little sons, and women, but come not near any man upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

¹⁴ I, LORD, have spoken it. It shall come to pass, and I will do it. I will not go back. I will neither spare, nor will I relent. According to thy ways, and according to thy doings, they shall judge thee, says the lord LORD.

¹⁴ And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, nor shall the mighty deliver himself.

¹ I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. And he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake, and break them in pieces on the head of all of them, and I will kill the last of them with the sword. There shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. ² Though they dig into Sheol, from there my hand shall take them, and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. ³ And though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there. And though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

³² He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

⁴ For if God did not spare agents who sinned, but delivered them up to chains of darkness, having been cast into hell being reserved for judgment, ⁵ and he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness, when he brought on a flood upon the world of the irreverent,

⁸ And though this house is so high, yet shall every man who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?

²² as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies. And the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day, that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. ²³ And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them, ²⁴ because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them. ²⁵ But when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

¹⁰ When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. And when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

⁸ And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

¹⁵ All who 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 called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels, that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing. And ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

¹⁵ This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

²⁰ Be glad over her, thou heaven, and the sanctified, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has decreed your judgment of her.