Psalms 63 Cross References - ACV

¹ O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water. ² So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary to see thy power and thy glory. ³ Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. ⁴ So I will bless thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in thy name. ⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips ⁶ when I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night-watches. ⁷ For thou have been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice. ⁸ My soul follows close after thee. Thy right hand upholds me. ⁹ But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. ¹⁰ They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be a portion for foxes. ¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him shall glory, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

² LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.

³ And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why have thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

⁵ And the prophet Gad said to David, Abide not in the stronghold. Depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

¹⁴ And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand. ¹⁵ And David saw that Saul came out to seek his life, and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the forest. ¹⁶ And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the forest, and strengthened his hand in God.

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. ²⁴ And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul, but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. ²⁵ And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David. Therefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

¹ And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert? ² Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. ³ And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

²⁸ See, I will remain at the fords of the wilderness until there comes word from you to report to me.

⁵ if thou would seek diligently to God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,

³ O LORD, in the morning thou shall hear my voice. In the morning I will direct to thee, and will keep watch.

¹⁴ But I trusted in thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my God.

¹ As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God. ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

¹¹ Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him, and they returned and sought God earnestly.

² My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

² I will say of LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.

³ For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

²⁸ Thou are my God, and I will give thanks to thee. Thou are my God, I will exalt thee.

⁸¹ My soul faints for thy salvation. I hope in thy word.

⁶ I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul is as a weary land for thee. Selah.

¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will, for thou are my God. Thy Spirit is good, lead me in the land of uprightness.

²⁷ when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. ²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me,

¹⁷ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. ² I said, I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. ³ The watchmen who go about the city found me. I said, Did ye see him whom my soul loves?

⁸ I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him that I am sick from love.

² And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

⁷ And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

¹⁸ I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

¹ At that time, says LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

³³ But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

⁹ And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD is my God.

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

⁴³ But when the unclean spirit goes forth out of the man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and finds it not.

³⁷ Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

¹⁷ Jesus says to her, Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.

¹⁶ They will hunger no more, nor will they thirst any more. The sun will, no, not fall upon them, nor any heat. ¹⁷ Because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will tend them, and will lead them to fountains of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

¹⁸ And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory. ¹⁹ And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of LORD before thee. I will be merciful to whom I may be merciful, and I will be compassionate to whomever I may be compassionate.

²¹ And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.

¹¹ Seek ye LORD and his strength. Seek his face evermore.

⁴ One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

²⁴ They have seen thy goings, O God, even the goings of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

¹⁷ until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end. ¹⁸ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.

¹³ Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary. Who is a great god like God? ¹⁴ Thou are the God who does wonders. Thou have made known thy strength among the peoples.

⁶¹ and delivered their strength into captivity, and their glory into the adversary's hand.

² My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God. ³ Yea, the sparrow has found her a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. ⁴ Blessed are those who dwell in thy house. They will still be praising thee. Selah. ⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. ⁶ Passing through the valley of weeping they make it a place of springs. Yea, the early rain covers it with blessings. ⁷ They go from strength to strength; each one of them appears before God in Zion. ⁸ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer. Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. ⁹ Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. ¹⁰ For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ¹¹ For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

⁶ Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁴ Seek ye LORD and his strength. Seek his face evermore.

² Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, and bless ye LORD.

¹¹ They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power,

¹³ The glory of Lebanon shall come to thee, the fir tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary. And I will make the place of my feet glorious.

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, in order for the light of the good news of the glory of the Christ (who is a likeness of God) not to shine forth to them. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus. ⁶ Because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who shone in our hearts for an enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the presence of Jesus Christ.

⁶ Many there are who say, Who will show us good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

⁶ For thou make him most blessed forever. Thou make him glad with joy in thy presence.

⁵ For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy is in the morning.

¹² to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to thee forever.

¹⁵ O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

¹⁷ I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.

¹⁶ Answer me, O LORD, for thy loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou to me,

² Take with you words, and return to LORD. Say to him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good. So we will render as bullocks the offering of our lips.

¹⁹ (I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.

¹ I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.

²⁰ for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

²³ And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.

¹⁵ Through him therefore, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, fruit of lips acknowledging his name.

⁵ So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles. 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. ⁹ By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.

²² And Solomon stood before the altar of LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven. ²³ And he said, O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with thy servants, who walk before thee with all their heart, ²⁴ who have kept with thy servant David my father that which thou did promise him. Yea, thou spoke with thy mouth, and have fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day. ²⁵ Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou have promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy sons take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou have walked before me. ²⁶ Now therefore, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spoke to thy servant David my father. ²⁷ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee. How much less this house that I have built! ²⁸ Yet have thou respect to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken to the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prays before thee this day, ²⁹ that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof thou have said, My name shall be there, to hearken to the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place. ³⁰ And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. Yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and when thou hear, forgive. ³¹ If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before thine altar in this house, ³² then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. ³³ When thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy because they have sinned against thee, if they turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray and make supplication to thee in this house, ³⁴ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gave to their fathers. ³⁵ When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin when thou afflict them, ³⁶ then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and send rain upon thy land, which thou have given to thy people for an inheritance. ³⁷ If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague, whatever sickness there be, ³⁸ whatever prayer and supplication be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house, ³⁹ then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou know (for thou, even thou only, know the hearts of all the sons of men), ⁴⁰ that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gave to our fathers. ⁴¹ Moreover concerning the foreigner who is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name's sake ⁴² (for they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy mighty hand, and of thine outstretched arm), when he shall come and pray toward this house, ⁴³ hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to thee for, that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as does thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name. ⁴⁴ If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way thou shall send them, and they pray to LORD toward the city which thou have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name, ⁴⁵ then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. ⁴⁶ If they sin against thee (for there is no man that sins not), and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, afar off or near, ⁴⁷ yet if they shall rethink themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to thee in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly, ⁴⁸ if they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who carried them captive, and pray to thee toward their land, which thou gave to their fathers, the city which thou have chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name, ⁴⁹ then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their case, ⁵⁰ and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions by which they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them ⁵¹ (for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron); ⁵² that thine eyes may be open to the supplication of thy servant, and to the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken to them whenever they cry to thee. ⁵³ For thou separated them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spoke by Moses thy servant when thou brought our fathers out of Egypt, O lord LORD. ⁵⁴ And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to LORD, he arose from before the altar of LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. ⁵⁵ And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, ⁵⁶ Blessed be LORD, who has given rest to his people Israel according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant. ⁵⁷ LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us, nor forsake us, ⁵⁸ that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers. ⁵⁹ And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before LORD, be near to LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require, ⁶⁰ that all the peoples of the earth may know that LORD, he is God; there is none else. ⁶¹ Let your heart therefore be perfect with LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. ⁶² And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before LORD. ⁶³ And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to LORD, twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of LORD. ⁶⁴ The same day the king hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brazen altar that was before LORD was too little to receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings. ⁶⁵ So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. ⁶⁶ On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that LORD had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

² Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

³³ I will sing to LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

¹ I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever. ² Every day I will bless thee, and I will praise thy name forever and ever. ³ Great is LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Praise LORD, O my soul. ² While I live I will praise LORD. I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high. ¹¹ And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to LORD, saying, For he is good, for his loving kindness is forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised LORD, because the foundation of the house of LORD was laid. ¹² But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice, and many shouted aloud for joy. ¹³ So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.

¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.

⁷ How precious is thy loving kindness, O God, and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings. ⁸ They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou will make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. ⁹ For with thee is the fountain of life. In thy light we shall see light.

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.

⁴ Blessed is the man whom thou choose and cause to approach, that he may dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple.

²³ My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to thee, and my soul, which thou have redeemed.

³⁴ Let thy meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in LORD.

¹⁴ LORD is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. ¹⁵ The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of LORD does valiantly.

³ Praise ye LORD, for LORD is good. Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Sing to LORD a new song, and his praise in the assembly of the sanctified. ² Let Israel rejoice in him who made him. Let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King. ³ Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises to him with timbrel and harp.

⁴ Draw me, we will run after thee. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will make mention of thy love more than of wine. Rightly do they love thee.

⁶ And in this mountain LORD of hosts will make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the dregs, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the dregs well refined.

⁴ Again I will build thee, and thou shall be built, O virgin of Israel. Again thou shall be adorned with thy tambourine, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.

⁵ And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Praise ye our God, all his bondmen and those who fear him, the small and the great. ⁶ And I heard as the sound of a large multitude, and as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying, Praise the Lord! Because the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. ⁷ We should be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself.

⁸ Yet LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, even a prayer to the God of my life.

⁴ Thou have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.

⁵⁵ I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have observed thy law.

¹⁴⁷ I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried. I hoped in thy words. ¹⁴⁸ My eyes anticipated the night-watches that I might meditate on thy word.

¹⁷ How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ I count them; they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

⁵ Let the sanctified exult in glory. Let them sing for joy upon their beds.

¹ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. ² I said, I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

² I was asleep, but my heart awoke. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.

¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

³⁷ And David said, LORD who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and LORD shall be with thee.

¹¹ But let all those who take refuge in thee rejoice. Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defend them. Let those also who love thy name be joyful in thee.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

¹ The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD. And in thy salvation how greatly he shall rejoice!

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.

³ For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah. ⁴ Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is of those who uphold my soul.

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.

⁴ I will dwell in thy tabernacle forever. I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

¹⁰ Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

²⁶ And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go unless thou bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for thou have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

³⁵ Thou have also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand has held me up, and thy gentleness has made me great.

²⁴ Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for LORD upholds him with his hand.

¹² And as for me, thou uphold me in my integrity, and set me before thy face forever.

²³ Nevertheless I am continually with thee. Thou have held my right hand.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

¹⁸ When I said, My foot slips, thy loving kindness, O LORD, held me up.

⁶ I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul is as a weary land for thee. Selah. ⁷ Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

⁶ His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.

² I said, I will rise now, and go around the city. In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

⁹ With my soul I have desired thee in the night. Yea, with my spirit within me I will seek thee earnestly. For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰ Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹ Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights. I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.

¹² And from the days of John the immerser until now the kingdom of the heavens is treated aggressively, and aggressors seize it.

²⁴ Compete to enter in by the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

⁵ yet because this widow causes me a beating, I will avenge her, lest by no end of coming she give me a black eye. ⁶ And the Lord said, Hear ye what the unrighteous judge says. 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?

¹² Therefore my beloved, just as ye have always obeyed, not only as in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. ¹³ For it is God who works in you both to desire and to work for approval.

²⁹ For which also I labor, striving according to his working, which works in me with power.

³⁰ But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD. ³¹ And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that pertained to Korah, and all their goods. ³³ So they, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

²⁹ And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with LORD thy God. And the souls of thine enemies, them he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

¹⁹ Moreover LORD will deliver Israel also with thee into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow thou and thy sons shall be with me. LORD will also deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

¹³ Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

¹⁷ Wicked men shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

⁴ Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor who seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and confounded who devise my hurt.

²⁶ Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

¹² Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

¹⁴ Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

¹⁵ Let death come suddenly upon them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

²³ But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

² Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

¹³ For great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

⁹ Sheol from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming. It stirs up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

¹⁵ Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.

¹⁹ But thou are cast forth away from thy sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot.

¹⁸ Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. ¹⁹ Whom do thou pass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. ²⁰ They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away and all her multitudes. ²¹ The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. They lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword. ²² Asshur is there and all her company. Her graves are round about her, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, ²³ whose graves are set in the outermost parts of the pit. And her company is round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. ²⁴ There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. ²⁵ They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are round about her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put in the midst of those who are slain. ²⁶ There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are round about them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for they caused their terror in the land of the living. ²⁷ And they shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquities are upon their bones, for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. ²⁸ But thou shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain by the sword. ²⁹ There is Edom, its kings and all its rulers, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. ³⁰ There are the rulers of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. In the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame. And they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. ³¹ Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the lord LORD. ³² For I have put his terror in the land of the living, and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the lord LORD.

²⁵ to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas transgressed to go to his own place.

¹⁰ And David said, As LORD lives, LORD will smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.

¹ Now the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. ² And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul. ³ And the battle went severely against Saul, and the archers overtook him, and he was greatly distressed because of the archers. ⁴ Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it. ⁵ And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him. ⁶ So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

¹⁵ Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards. For our vineyards are in blossom.

²¹ Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives become childless, and widows, and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

⁵ Because thou have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

⁴ Thou shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy hordes, and the peoples who are with thee. I will give thee to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

¹⁷ And thou, son of man, thus says the lord LORD: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come. Gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸ Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the rulers of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. ¹⁹ And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. ²⁰ And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the lord LORD.

¹⁷ And I saw one agent having stood in the sun, and he cried out in a great voice, saying to all the birds flying in mid-heaven, Come, gather together to the great supper of God, ¹⁸ so that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit upon them, and the flesh of all men, both freemen and bondmen, and both small and great.

¹³ Thou shall fear LORD thy God, and him thou shall serve, and shall swear by his name.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee. And thou shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to thee. And that, Saul my father also knows.

²⁰ And now, behold, I know that thou shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand.

¹⁶ So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

⁶ Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

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

⁴² The upright shall see it, and be glad. And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

¹⁸ In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to LORD of hosts. One shall be called The city of destruction.

²³ By myself I have sworn, the word has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue will confess to God.

¹⁶ so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth. Because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

⁵ and those who worship the host of heaven upon the housetops, and those who worship, who swear to LORD and swear by Malcam,

¹⁹ Now we know that as many things as the law says, it says to those in the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become accountable to God.

¹⁰ For there are also many insubordinate men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from circumcision, ¹¹ who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

¹³ For God who promised to Abraham, since he had none greater to swear by, swore by himself,