Genesis 21 Cross References - BBE

¹ And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken. ² And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God. ³ And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac. ⁴ And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him. ⁵ Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place. ⁶ And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me. ⁷ And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old. ⁸ And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast. ⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac. ¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac. ¹¹ And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son. ¹² But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name. ¹³ And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed. ¹⁴ And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba. ¹⁵ And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree. ¹⁶ And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child. ¹⁷ And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God. ¹⁸ Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation. ¹⁹ Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink. ²⁰ And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land. ²¹ And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt. ²² Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do. ²³ Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living. ²⁴ And Abraham said, I will give you my oath. ²⁵ But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force. ²⁶ But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day. ²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together. ²⁸ And Abraham put seven young lambs of the flock on one side by themselves. ²⁹ Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side? ³⁰ And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole. ³¹ So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths. ³² So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines. ³³ And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God. ³⁴ And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

¹⁹ And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

²¹ But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

¹⁴ Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

²⁴ Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.

¹⁶ Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;

³¹ And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

⁵ You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

⁶ So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

²¹ And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.

⁶ The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

⁴ Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

⁶⁸ Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,

⁴⁴ And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.

¹⁷ As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were. ¹⁸ Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be. ¹⁹ And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead he being about a hundred years old and Sarah was no longer able to have children: ²⁰ Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

²³ Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

²⁸ Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

² In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

¹⁶ And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant. ¹⁷ Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

²⁴ After that time, Elisabeth, being certain that she was to become a mother, kept herself from men's eyes for five months, saying, ²⁵ The Lord has done this to me, for his eyes were on me, to take away my shame in the eyes of men.

³⁶ Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.

⁸ And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

⁹ For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

²² Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman.

¹¹ And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

⁶ And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

¹² But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

² And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

³ And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

² The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;

⁷ And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

¹⁸ Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

¹⁰ And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision. ¹¹ In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you. ¹² Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

⁴⁸ And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

³ And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

³² You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

⁶ They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

⁵⁹ And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

²¹ And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.

²² Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision. ²³ If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

¹⁷ Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

¹⁹ And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead he being about a hundred years old and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

¹² And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old? ¹³ And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child? ¹⁴ Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child. ¹⁵ Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.

²⁶ And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:

⁹ He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

² Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

¹⁵ Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.

²¹ Then you will say in your heart, Who has given me all these children? when my children had been taken from me, and I was no longer able to have others, who took care of these? when I was by myself, where then were these?

¹ Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.

¹⁴ And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

⁴⁶ And Mary said: My soul gives glory to God; ⁴⁷ My spirit is glad in God my Saviour. ⁴⁸ For he has had pity on his servant, though she is poor and lowly placed: and from this hour will all generations give witness to the blessing which has come to me. ⁴⁹ For he who is strong has done great things for me; and holy is his name. ⁵⁰ His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him. ⁵¹ With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts. ⁵² He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree. ⁵³ Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands; ⁵⁴ His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever, ⁵⁵ As he gave his word to our fathers.

⁵⁸ And it came to the ears of her neighbours and relations that the Lord had been very good to her, and they took part in her joy.

²¹ When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world. ²² So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

¹⁵ Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.

²⁷ For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband. ²⁸ Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth. ¹² And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

²³ No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

³² Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story. ³³ Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did? ³⁴ Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

⁸ There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works.

¹⁰ For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.

⁸ When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

¹⁰ So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

¹⁰ At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith because our witness among you had effect in that day.

³ But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took.

³⁰ Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.

²² And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.

²⁰ Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.

¹⁰ Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.

¹² And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing;

²² But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.

³⁶ And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.

²⁰ So Abner, with twenty men, came to Hebron, to David. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

¹⁵ And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

³ In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

² See, I have made my soul calm and quiet, like a child on its mother's breast; my soul is like a child on its mother's breast.

⁸ Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

³ So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife. ⁴ And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife. ⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me. ⁶ And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

¹⁵ And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.

²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

²³ Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair! ²⁴ And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.

¹⁰ So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.

¹⁶ But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

¹ Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews. ² And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust? ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Such is their building that if a fox goes up it, their stone wall will be broken down. ⁴ Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners: ⁵ Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

¹ But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

⁶ But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

¹⁰ The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

¹³ You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us. ¹⁴ Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

¹¹ Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.

⁷ Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

²⁹ But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

³⁶ And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

¹⁰ And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.

⁶ But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.

¹⁹ Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:

⁶ Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

¹¹ And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: ¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

³⁵ Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

¹⁸ Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.

⁷ So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

²² Because it is in the Writings, that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant-woman, and one by the free woman. ²³ Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God. ²⁴ Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar. ²⁵ Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother. ²⁷ For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband. ²⁸ Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God. ²⁹ But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now. ³⁰ What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman. ³¹ So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

⁴ And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

¹ Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. ² And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

³³ Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

³⁷ He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

⁷ And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

⁹ Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

¹⁰ Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;

⁷ And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named. ⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

¹⁸ Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

¹² Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah: ¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam ¹⁴ And Mishma and Dumah and Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: ¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples. ¹⁷ And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people. ¹⁸ And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.

⁷ And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

²⁷ And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

³¹ So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

³³ And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

³ And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

¹⁹ Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

⁵⁴ Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.

³¹ And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.

³³ And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

¹⁵ And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

¹ And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

³ And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

⁴ They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

⁶⁰ I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

¹⁴ He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.

²³ Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God. ²⁴ Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar. ²⁵ Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.

¹⁴ And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.

²² Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water. ²³ And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah. ²⁴ And the people, crying out against Moses, said, What are we to have for drink? ²⁵ And in answer to his prayer, the Lord made him see a tree, and when he put it into the water, the water was made sweet. There he gave them a law and an order, testing them;

¹ And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people. ² So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test? ³ And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

⁹ So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.

¹ A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

¹² The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.

³ Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

³⁸ And Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you have, my father? give a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was overcome with weeping.

¹¹ And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

³⁴ For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?

⁴ Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

⁹ May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.

¹⁶ Now when David had said these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, David, my son? And Saul was overcome with weeping.

⁴ Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

²⁶ Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.

⁶ For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?

¹⁰ And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

²⁰ And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.

¹ After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

⁹ And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.

¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

⁷ And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;

¹³ But Moses said, Keep where you are and have no fear; now you will see the salvation of the Lord which he will give you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.

²³ If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.

²³ Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

⁵ Now Saul came from the field, driving the oxen before him; and he said, Why are the people weeping? And they gave him word of what the men of Jabesh had said.

⁴ Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.

²³ But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

² To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.

¹⁵ When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

⁴ They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place. ⁵ Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink. ⁶ Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;

¹ The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

¹⁰ Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

¹³ For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper. ¹⁴ Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.

¹ But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine. ² When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

³² And Jesus got his disciples together and said, I have pity for the people, because they have now been with me three days and have no food: and I will not send them away without food, or they will have no strength for the journey.

³⁶ But Jesus, giving no attention to their words, said to the ruler of the Synagogue, Have no fear, only have faith.

¹³ And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

²⁹ These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam, ³⁰ Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema, ³¹ Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

³¹ Then the Lord made Balaam's eyes open, and he saw the angel of the Lord in the way with his sword in his hand: and he went down on his face to the earth.

¹⁷ Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha. ¹⁸ Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request. ¹⁹ And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the town: come after me so that I may take you to the man you are searching for. And he took them to Samaria. ²⁰ And when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, let the eyes of these men be open so that they may see. And the Lord made their eyes open, and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.

⁵ Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open. ⁶ Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

¹⁶ But their eyes were not open that they might have knowledge of him. ¹⁷ And he said to them, What are you talking about together while you go? ¹⁸ Then stopping, and looking sadly at him, one of them, named Cleopas, said to him, Are you the only man living in Jerusalem who has not had news of the things which have taken place there at this time? ¹⁹ And he said to them, What things? And they said, The things to do with Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, great in his acts and his words, before God and all the people: ²⁰ And how the chief priests and our rulers gave him up to be put to death on the cross. ²¹ But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place; ²² And certain women among us gave us cause for wonder, for they went early to the place where his body had been put, ²³ And it was not there; then they came saying that they had seen a vision of angels who said that he was living. ²⁴ And some of those who were with us went to the place, and saw that it was as the women had said, but him they did not see. ²⁵ And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said. ²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory? ²⁷ And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself. ²⁸ And they came near the town to which they were going, and he seemed as if he was going on; ²⁹ But they kept him back, saying, Do not go, for evening is near, the day is almost gone. And he went in with them. ³⁰ And when he was seated with them at table, he took the bread, and said words of blessing and, making division of it, he gave it to them. ³¹ And then their eyes were open, and they had knowledge of him, but he went from their view.

⁹ He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

²⁷ And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

³ So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;

¹⁵ And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

² And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.

²¹ But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend.

²³ He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: ²⁴ But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:

¹² And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.

²⁴ So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him. ²⁵ And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

⁸⁰ And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

⁴⁰ And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

³ And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living; ⁴ But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite: ³⁵ And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.

⁴⁶ Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?

¹² And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.

¹⁶ After that, the people went on from Hazeroth and put up their tents in the waste land of Paran.

³ And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

²⁶ And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.

² And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.

¹ And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.

³⁸ So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

² And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

¹⁷ Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

²⁶ And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.

²⁸ And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

²⁷ And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

⁷ And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

¹ And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.

¹⁰ Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

¹⁴ The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.

²³ This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.

²³ See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

²⁵ The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.

⁵ Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

⁹ See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you.

²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, ²³ That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:

¹⁴ Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

³ And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;

⁴⁴ Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.

⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

¹³ Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

¹² So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house,

¹³ May the Lord's punishment be on Jonathan, if it is my father's pleasure to do you evil and I do not give you word of it and send you away so that you may go in peace: and may the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.

¹⁷ And Jonathan again took an oath to David, because of his love for him: for David was as dear to him as his very soul.

⁴² And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for we two have taken an oath, in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed for ever. Then David went away, and Jonathan went into the town.

²¹ So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family. ²² And David gave Saul his oath. And Saul went back to his house; but David and his men went up to their safe place.

¹⁵ And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.

² And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.

²³ But God is my witness that it was in pity for you that I did not come to Corinth at that time.

¹⁶ For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.

¹³ And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.

¹⁸ As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.

⁷ And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

¹⁵ Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are. ¹⁷ So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there. ¹⁸ And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them. ¹⁹ Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water. ²⁰ But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it. ²¹ Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah. ²² Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

⁸ And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock. ¹⁷ And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

¹⁵ And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.

¹⁰ A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

⁹ Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:

⁵ Better is open protest than love kept secret.

¹⁵ And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.

²⁰ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him. ²¹ So Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from his carriage and went back to him and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them? ²³ And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him. ²⁴ When he came to the hill, he took them from their hands, and put them away in the house; and he sent the men away, and they went.

²⁸ And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you; ²⁹ That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing but good, and sent you away in peace: and now the blessing of the Lord is on you. ³⁰ Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink. ³¹ And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.

³ Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.

⁸ An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

¹⁶ A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

²⁴ There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

¹⁴ By a secret offering wrath is turned away, and the heat of angry feelings by money in the folds of the robe.

⁸ But the noble-hearted man has noble purposes, and by these he will be guided.

¹³ And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:

³¹ Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

¹⁵ Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

⁸ And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

²⁶ And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?

⁴⁴ Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us. ⁴⁵ Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones. ⁴⁷ And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed. ⁴⁸ And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,

⁵² They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.

²⁷ But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord. ²⁸ For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.

²³ And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

²⁸ And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;

¹ Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the Lord at Mizpah.

¹¹ But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.

²⁵ So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

¹⁴ And Pathrusim and Casluhim and Caphtorim, from whom came the Philistines.

²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.

⁸ And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.

¹⁴ For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

¹⁷ Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.

¹ And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

²⁶ And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

⁸ And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

²⁵ Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

²¹ Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

⁷ And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

² Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.

²⁸ Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

¹⁰ But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

¹⁴ Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.

²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

²⁶ But is now made clear; and by the writings of the prophets, by the order of the eternal God, the knowledge of it has been given to all the nations, so that they may come under the rule of the faith;

¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, ever-living, unseen, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.

¹ And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

¹² Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

⁹ By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

¹³ All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

¹¹ My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;