Psalms 10 Cross References - ACV

¹ Why do thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why do thou hide thyself in times of trouble? ² In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. ³ For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, yea, despises LORD. ⁴ The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, says, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God. ⁵ His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them. ⁶ He says in his heart, I shall not be moved. To all generations I shall not be in adversity. ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. ⁸ He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man. ⁹ He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net. ¹⁰ He crouches, he bows down, and helpless men fall by his strong men. ¹¹ He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it. ¹² Arise, O LORD, O God, lift up thy hand. Do not forget the poor. ¹³ Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require it? ¹⁴ Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits himself to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless. ¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the sinner and the evil man. His wickedness shall be sought, and shall not be found. ¹⁶ LORD is King forever and ever. The nations have perished out of his land. ¹⁷ LORD, thou have heard the desire of the humble. Thou will prepare their heart, thou will cause thine ear to hear, ¹⁸ to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be terrible.

²⁴ Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?

⁹ on the left hand, when he works, but I cannot behold him. He hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face, who then can behold him? It is the same whether to a nation, or to a man,

¹ How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me? ² How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? ³ Consider and answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,

¹ My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, and the words of my groaning?

⁹ Hide not thy face from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou have been my help. Cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

⁷ Thou, LORD, of thy favor had made my mountain to stand strong. Thou hid thy face; I was troubled.

²⁴ Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

¹ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

¹⁴ LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

⁸ O thou hope of Israel, the Savior of it in the time of trouble, why should thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to tarry for a night?

¹⁷ As yet thou exalt thyself against my people, that thou will not let them go?

¹¹ Now I know that LORD is greater than all gods, yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own scalp.

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken. ¹⁶ LORD has made himself known. He has executed justice. The wicked man is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.

¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners drive me away.

¹² for the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.

⁵ O that my ways were established to observe thy statutes!

⁶⁹ The proud have forged a lie against me. With my whole heart I will keep thy precepts.

⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to thy law.

¹²² Be surety for thy servant for good. Let not the proud oppress me.

⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords. They have spread a net by the wayside. They have set snares for me. Selah.

²² His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

¹² Therefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. ¹³ For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. And I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. And like a valiant man I have brought down those who sit on thrones.

¹³ And thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north.

¹⁶ Those who see thee shall gaze at thee. They shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,

² then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, spoke, saying to Jeremiah, Thou speak falsely. LORD our God has not sent thee to say, Ye shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there.

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

³⁰ And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

¹⁹ and it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

¹⁹ And LORD saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

²¹ And Saul said, Blessed be ye of LORD, for ye have had compassion on me.

²⁴ If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, Thou are my confidence;

⁶ Thou will destroy those who speak lies. LORD abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

²¹ Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

⁶ Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,

¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses are forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names. ¹² Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. ¹³ This their way is their folly. Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah.

¹⁸ Though while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise thee, when thou do well for thyself),

¹ Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual.

⁸ They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

⁴ They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

⁴ Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.

⁷ However he does not so reason, nor does his heart so think, but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. ⁸ For he says, Are not my rulers all of them kings? ⁹ Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria, ¹¹ shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

²³ Whom have thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom have thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁷ For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and smote him. I hid my face and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

¹⁷ But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

⁷ He is a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress. ⁸ And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

¹⁰ Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant measure that is abominable? ¹¹ Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights? ¹² For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

⁹ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

⁵ whose possessors kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be LORD, for I am rich, and their own shepherds pity them not. ⁶ For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says LORD. But, lo, I will deliver the men each one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. And they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver them out of their hand. ⁷ So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves, the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands, and I fed the flock. ⁸ And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

¹⁵ he said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they weighed out to him thirty silver pieces. ¹⁶ And from that time he sought a favorable opportunity so that he might betray him.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou have many goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

¹⁴ And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things, and they sneered him. ¹⁵ And he said to them, Ye are those who declare yourselves righteous in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. Because what is lofty among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

³² Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.

¹⁰ nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

⁵ For ye are men who know this, that no fornicator, or unclean man, or covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

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.

² For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious, ³ devoid of natural affection, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, no lovers of good, ⁴ traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

¹³ Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain-

¹⁶ But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

⁵ And LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.

¹⁴ then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget LORD thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,

¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us, and, What can the Almighty do for us?

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good. ² LORD looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

²⁷ For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.

⁸ My heart said to thee, I have sought thy face. O LORD, I will seek thy face.

¹ The transgression of the wicked man says within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.

⁵ He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

⁴ A high look, and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

⁹ lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.

¹³ There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up.

¹¹ The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

⁹ The show of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.

⁷ Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

² I have spread out my hands all the day to a disobedient and rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts,

³¹ O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee?

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou may be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

²² And thou his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled thy heart, though thou knew all this, ²³ but have 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 from them. And thou have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor know. And the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, thou have not glorified.

³ Seek ye LORD, all ye meek of the earth who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. It may be ye will be hid in the day of LORD's anger.

²¹ For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,

²² Repent therefore from this thine evil, and beg God, if perhaps the thought of thy heart will be forgiven thee.

²¹ Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

²⁸ And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

¹² that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.

¹² And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

²⁷ And they went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

³⁸ Then Zebul said to him, Where is now thy mouth, that thou said, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? Is not this the people that thou have despised? Go out now, I pray, and fight with them.

⁶ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, Unless thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shall not come in here, thinking, David cannot come in here.

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me. ¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him who girds on his armor boast himself as he who puts it off.

¹³ And, behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says LORD, Have thou seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day, and thou shall know that I am LORD.

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.

⁵ How great are thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep. ⁶ A brutish man knows not, nor does a fool understand this.

¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.

¹³ who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,

²⁴ To the wise man the way of life is upward, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

¹ Be not thou envious against evil men, nor desire to be with them.

¹² And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

¹ Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness,

¹¹ LORD, thy hand is lifted up, yet they do not see. But they shall see thy zeal for the people, and be put to shame. Yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.

¹⁵ Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we are at agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hid ourselves under falsehood.

²⁵ Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle. And it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not. And it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will visit their sins.

⁹ Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

¹⁶ Destruction and misery are in their ways,

¹ In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain.

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good.

⁵ he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

¹¹ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

⁷ And thou said, I shall be mistress forever, so that thou did not lay these things to thy heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.

¹² Come ye, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. And tomorrow shall be as this day, great beyond measure.

¹⁰ For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming,

³ For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.

⁷ In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.

³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

¹² Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

⁹ For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they deceive.

¹⁴ Behold the wicked man, he travails with iniquity. Yea, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

³ The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

⁶ And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

⁴ Thou love all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

³ The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

⁴ They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

³ who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

⁸ They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.

³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

⁹ As for the head of those who encompass me around, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

⁸ whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

¹¹ Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

⁶ The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.

⁸ Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

⁴ No man sues in righteousness, and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

³ And they bend their tongue-their bow-for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

⁶ Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.

³⁴ Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹³ Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips, ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell. ⁷ For every species, both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the human species. ⁸ But no man is able to tame the tongue of men, an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

¹⁸ And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod.

²³ See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty. And I will go with you, and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

¹⁶ Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD.

¹¹ They have now encompassed us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast down to the earth.

⁶ They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. ¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

¹² A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth, ¹³ who winks with his eyes, who speaks with his feet, who makes signs with his fingers,

¹⁴ Thou pierced with his own staves the head of his warriors. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor man secretly.

¹ And it came to pass that he traveled through, by city and village in succession, announcing and preaching the good news of the kingdom of God, and the twelve men with him,

¹ Now after these things the Lord also appointed seventy other men, and sent them by twos before his face into every city and place where he himself was going to come.

¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

¹² He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

¹⁰ All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like thee, who delivers a poor man from him who is too strong for him, yea, a poor and needy man from him who robs him?

¹⁴ The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill such as are upright in the way.

³ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

³¹ For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

³¹ He who oppresses a poor man reproaches his maker, but he who has mercy on a needy man honors him.

¹⁶ He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, and he who gives to a rich man, comes only to want.

¹⁵ A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

¹⁵ What do ye mean that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? says the Lord, LORD of hosts.

⁷ And the instruments of the churl are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

²⁶ For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

¹⁰ He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.

³ And she brought up one of her whelps. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men. ⁴ The nations also heard of him. He was taken in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. ⁵ Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. ⁶ And he went up and down among the lions. He became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey. He devoured men.

²⁹ The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery. Yea, they have vexed the poor and needy man, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.

⁶ Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes- ⁷ those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the same maiden, to profane my holy name.

⁴ Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?

¹¹ Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate.

² The devout man has 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.

¹¹ Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? ¹² The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with prey.

¹⁵ He takes all of them up with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his drag. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

³ A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

¹² But the hired man, and not being the shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches them, and scatters the sheep.

²¹ Therefore thou should not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men of them wait to ambush him, who have put themselves under an oath, neither to eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, expecting the promise from thee.

³⁶ And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a morsel of bread.

²¹ And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, Thou shall this day be my son-in-law a second time. ²² And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Converse with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in thee, and all his servants love thee. Now therefore be the king's son-in-law. ²³ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? ²⁴ And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner David spoke. ²⁵ And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king does not desire any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. ²⁶ And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired.

²¹ And Saul said, Blessed be ye of LORD, for ye have had compassion on me. ²² Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he deals very shrewdly.

⁵ And it was so, that, when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

¹³ And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.

⁶ He says in his heart, I shall not be moved. To all generations I shall not be in adversity.

⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?

¹¹ And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

⁷ And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.

¹² Then he said to me, Son of man, have thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his chambers of imagery? For they say, LORD does not see us. LORD has forsaken the land.

⁹ Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness. For they say, LORD has forsaken the land, and LORD does not see.

⁶ But some of the scholars were sitting there, and deliberating in their hearts,

³⁹ But when the Pharisee who invited him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind the woman is who touches him, that she is sinful.

⁷ Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. For thou have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone. Thou have broken the teeth of the wicked.

⁶ Arise, O LORD, in thine anger. Lift up thyself against the rage of my adversaries, and awake for me the justice thou have commanded.

¹² For he who makes inquiry for blood remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the poor.

¹⁹ Arise, O LORD, let not man prevail. Let the nations be judged in thy sight.

¹ How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?

⁷ Show thy marvelous loving kindness, O thou who saves by thy right hand those who take refuge from those who rise up.

⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

² Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth. Render to the proud a recompense.

¹⁰ Now I will arise, says LORD. Now I will lift up myself. Now I will be exalted.

⁹ Let thy hand be lifted up above thine adversaries, and let all thine enemies be cut off.

⁵ And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, I will require. At the hand of every beast I will require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

²² And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Sin not against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

²⁰ but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you, because ye have rejected LORD who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?

⁹ Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

²² Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, LORD look upon it, and require it.

¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?

¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that a foolish people has blasphemed thy name.

¹⁶ He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.

⁵⁰ so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it will be required of this generation.

⁸ Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

¹⁸ He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner in giving him food and raiment.

⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

²⁶ Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says LORD, and I will requite thee in this plot, says LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plot of ground, according to the word of LORD.

²³ then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

¹¹ Be not far from me, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.

²² Thou have seen it, O LORD. Keep not silence. O Lord, be not far from me.

²² (Cast thy burden upon LORD, and he will sustain thee. He will never allow the righteous man to be moved.)

⁵ A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

⁹ LORD preserves the sojourners. He upholds the fatherless and widow. But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

³ The eyes of LORD are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

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?

¹⁷ For my eyes are upon all their ways. They are not hid from my face, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

²⁴ Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says LORD.

¹¹ Leave thy fatherless sons; I will preserve them alive. And let thy widows trust in me.

⁵⁶ For the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces. For LORD is a God of recompenses; he will surely requite.

³ Assyria shall not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

⁴ Yea, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will ye render me a recompense? And if ye recompense me, I will return your recompense swiftly and speedily upon your own head.

¹³ Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

¹² Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

¹³ And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.

¹⁹ Therefore also let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls as to a faithful Creator by well-doing.

⁷ having cast all your concern upon him, because he cares for you.

¹² therefore thus says LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle. ¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴ And I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. And they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, ¹⁵ because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day.

¹⁵ And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm is broken.

⁹ O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but LORD upholds the righteous.

³⁴ Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor. Thou did not find them breaking in. But it is because of all these things.

⁴⁸ Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do according to your lewdness.

²¹ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And, lo, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to hold the sword. ²² Therefore thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. And I will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken, and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

¹² And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, LORD will not do good, nor will he do evil.

¹⁷ Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye. His arm shall be entirely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

²⁰ As the nations that LORD makes to perish before you, so shall ye perish, because ye would not hearken to the voice of LORD your God.

⁵ Thou have rebuked the nations. Thou have destroyed the wicked. Thou have blotted out their name forever and ever.

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

⁴³ Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. ⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. ⁴⁵ The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

¹⁰ LORD sat as King at the Flood. Yea, LORD sits as King forever.

² Thou drove out the nations with thy hand, but thou planted them. Thou afflicted the peoples, but thou spread them abroad. ³ For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou were favorable to them.

⁵⁵ He also drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

¹ LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty. LORD is clothed with strength; he has girded himself with it. The world also is established that it cannot be moved.

¹³ Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion is throughout all generations.

¹⁰ LORD will reign forever, thy God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye LORD.

²² For LORD is our judge. LORD is our lawgiver. LORD is our king, he will save us.

¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

¹⁹ Thou, O LORD, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.

³⁴ And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me. And I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever. For his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

²⁶ I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. And his kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even to the end.

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹⁵ which he will show in his own times, the blessed and only Potentate, the King of those who are kings, and Lord of those who are lords, ¹⁶ who alone has immortality, dwelling in irreproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see, to whom is honor and eternal dominion. Truly.

¹⁸ O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart to thee.

³⁶ And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

¹² Also the hand of God came upon Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the rulers by the word of LORD.

¹² And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed to him. And he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that LORD he was God.

²⁷ because thy heart was tender, and thou humbled thyself before God when thou heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled thyself before me, and have torn thy clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard thee, says LORD.

¹⁸ For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.

¹⁵ The eyes of LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer.

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

¹⁷ He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

⁷ He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, trusting in LORD. ⁸ His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, even until he looks over his adversaries.

¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry and will save them.

²⁴ The fear of a wicked man shall come upon him. And the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

¹ The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

²⁴ And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

¹³ But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man. ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

²⁴ And those who heard lifted up a voice to God with one accord, and said, Thou Master, the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them. ²⁵ He who said through the mouth of thy boy David, Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord, and against his Christ. ²⁷ For in truth, against thy holy Boy Jesus, whom thou anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together, ²⁸ to do as many things as thy hand and thy purpose predetermined to happen. ²⁹ And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word, ³⁰ by thy stretching forth thy hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of thy holy Boy Jesus. ³¹ And when they prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

⁵ Indeed therefore Peter was kept in the prison, but fervent prayer was being made by the church to God for him. ⁶ And when Herod was about to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound by two chains. And guards in front of the door guarded the prison. ⁷ And behold, an agent of the Lord stood near, and light shone in the room. And after striking the side of Peter, he raised him up, saying, Get up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands. ⁸ And the agent said to him, Gird thyself, and tie on thy sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Throw on thy garment, and follow me. ⁹ And after going out, he followed him. And he had not seen that the thing happening by the agent was true, but presumed to see a vision. ¹⁰ And when they passed a first and a second watch, they came to the iron gate, the one leading to the city, which opened spontaneously to them. And after going out, they advanced one street. And straightaway the agent withdrew from him. ¹¹ And when Peter came to himself, he said, Now I know truly, that the Lord dispatched his agent and delivered me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews. ¹² And having realized it, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where a considerable were gathered and praying. ¹³ And when Peter knocked the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to hearken. ¹⁴ And after recognizing Peter's voice, she did not open the gate for joy, but having ran in, she reported Peter was standing in front of the gate. ¹⁵ And they said to her, Thou are mad. But she insisted to have it so. But they said, It is his agent. ¹⁶ But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him, and were astonished. ¹⁷ But after motioning to them with the hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison. And he said, Report these things to James, and to the brothers. And having departed, he went to a different place. ¹⁸ But having become day, there was no small stir among the soldiers what then became of Peter. ¹⁹ And Herod, who sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, he commanded them to be led away. And going down from Judea to Caesarea, he remained there.

²⁶ And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

¹⁸ because through him we both have the access in one Spirit to the Father.

¹² in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through his faith.

¹⁶ Be not led astray, my beloved brothers. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

⁶ But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

¹⁰ Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

¹² Because the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears to their supplication, but the face of the Lord is against men who do evil things.

⁵ Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

⁹ LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble.

¹⁴ Thou have seen. For thou behold mischief and spite, to repay with thy hand. The poor man commits himself to thee. Thou have been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁴ from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

⁴ He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the sons of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.

²¹ O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.

³ Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

¹ O LORD, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth. ² Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth. Render to the proud a recompense. ³ LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? ⁴ They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. ⁵ They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage. ⁶ They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.

⁴ but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

⁷ And God, will he, no, not do the vengeance of his chosen who cry out to him day and night, and yet being patient toward them? ⁸ I say to you, that he will do their vengeance speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he then find faith on the earth?

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, earthly. The second man is the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As is the earthly, such also are the earthly. And as is the heavenly, such also are the heavenly.

¹⁸ For many walk, who (I told you often, and now also say while weeping) are enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and the glory in their shame, who mind earthly things.