Job 38 Cross References - BBE

¹ And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said, ² Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge? ³ Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers. ⁴ Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge. ⁵ By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it? ⁶ On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone, ⁷ When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy? ⁸ Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; ⁹ When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, ¹⁰ Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; ¹¹ And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped? ¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; ¹³ So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? ¹⁴ It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; ¹⁵ And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken. ¹⁶ Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep? ¹⁷ Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you? ¹⁸ Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all. ¹⁹ Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; ²⁰ So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house? ²¹ No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great. ²² Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops, ²³ Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting? ²⁴ Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth? ²⁵ By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder; ²⁶ Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; ²⁷ To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass? ²⁸ Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist? ²⁹ Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven? ³⁰ The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered. ³¹ Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose? ³² Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you? ³³ Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth? ³⁴ Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters? ³⁵ Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are? ³⁶ Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north? ³⁷ By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth, ³⁸ When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses? ³⁹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, ⁴⁰ When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? ⁴¹ Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

¹⁶ And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear. ¹⁷ And Moses made the people come out of their tents and take their places before God; and they came to the foot of the mountain, ¹⁸ And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking. ¹⁹ And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.

¹¹ And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night. ¹² And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.

²² These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me. ²³ And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me, ²⁴ And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even after hearing the voice of God.

¹¹ Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.

¹ Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

¹¹ And while they went on their way, going on talking together, suddenly there were carriages and horses of fire separating them from one another and Elijah went up to heaven in a great wind.

¹ At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place. ² Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

⁹ Out of its place comes the storm-wind, and the cold out of its store-houses.

¹⁴ Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

⁶ Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

⁴ And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.

³ The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

³ But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments. ⁵ I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

²⁵ And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?

³ How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

¹¹ I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

³⁵ Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.

¹⁶ And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

³ Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

⁷ Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

¹¹ And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.

⁴⁶ And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he made himself strong, and went running before Ahab till they came to Jezreel.

¹⁵ Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

²² Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

³ If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat! ⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments. ⁵ I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me. ⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing! ³⁶ Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown; ³⁷ I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

⁷ Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

¹⁷ So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.

¹³ So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹ At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

²⁵ In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

⁵ He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

²² The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth: ³⁰ Then I was by his side, as a master workman: and I was his delight from day to day, playing before him at all times;

⁴ Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

² But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;

¹⁰ You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

⁹ Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

²⁵ When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

⁵⁵ Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

²⁷ When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

²⁹ When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

¹¹ But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.

¹² In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

²² It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

¹ And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand. ² And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.

¹⁶ So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

¹⁸ These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side, ¹⁹ With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues. ²⁰ And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north, ²¹ With their forty silver bases, two under every board. ²² And six boards for the back of the House on the west, ²³ With two boards for the angles of the House at the back. ²⁴ The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles. ²⁵ So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board.

⁸ Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

⁷ By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

² For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.

¹ The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

²² The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

¹² Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;

¹⁶ For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.

¹ The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

²⁰ Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone, ²¹ In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;

⁵ But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

¹¹ And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place. ¹² But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

⁶ And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

¹ And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

⁴ He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

⁷ Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.

²⁸ And I will give him the morning star.

¹¹ And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give witness to you of these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

¹⁰ Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

⁷ He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

⁸ The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. ⁹ You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

²² Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.

² And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so. ¹⁰ And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁵ And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

¹⁰ By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

⁹ You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

²² In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

⁶ And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.

⁶ The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power: ⁷ Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

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⁹ You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

³ The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry. ⁴ The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

⁸ Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

³⁹ And he came out of his sleep, and gave strong orders to the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be at rest. And the wind went down, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith? ⁴¹ And their fear was great, and they said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea do his orders?

³² Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them. ³³ And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.

² And he took the dragon, the old snake, which is the Evil One and Satan, and put chains on him for a thousand years, ³ And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.

⁷ And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison, ⁸ And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.

⁵ Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁹ For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:

⁷ Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

⁴ Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

²¹ No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

¹⁶ The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

⁷ To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁸ The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

³ Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light. ⁴ Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens. ⁵ Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

⁷⁸ Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

¹⁹ And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

²⁷ And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

¹³ Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. ¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. ¹⁵ And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; ¹⁶ In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light. ¹⁷ For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

³ He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, ⁵ Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. ⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

²¹ The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God. ²² The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

³⁵ Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.

⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea; ¹⁰ Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me. ¹¹ If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; ¹² Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

² You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

⁶ Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. ²² And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days; ²³ They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

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.

¹⁴ In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

⁵ For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

¹⁵ Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

¹⁷ For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

¹⁹ The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

²¹ And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high; ²² And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

²² For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken; and I will make the sword go out of his hand.

¹⁰ O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.

⁵ The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them. ⁶ The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

¹⁹ Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

²⁴ When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

³⁶ For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

⁵ Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

²² Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

⁴ Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

¹⁰ Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

¹⁴ He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

¹⁸ They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

³ The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

⁸ Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

¹⁶ The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

²⁴ For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.

¹⁷ By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

¹¹ Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it. ¹² You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

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.

³⁷ This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.

⁹ And they went up over the face of the earth, and made a circle about the tents of the saints, and the well loved town: and fire came down out of heaven for their destruction.

³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. ⁴ And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years: ¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars. ¹⁷ And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth; ¹⁸ To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; ¹³ So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

¹¹ He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

²⁰ When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

²⁸ He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

⁷ I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

¹³ For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name.

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

⁹ The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

¹² Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

¹⁹ Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

¹⁷ So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

¹² Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

¹⁶ Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;

⁶ For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

⁷ He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

¹⁸ Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

²⁴ So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.

¹¹ And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

¹³ Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

³¹ For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

³⁰ And the Lord will send out the sound of his great voice, and they will see his arm stretched out, with the heat of his wrath, and the flame of a burning fire; with a cloud-burst, and storm, and a rain of ice.

¹¹ Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind. ¹² And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it? ¹³ For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.

²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

²¹ And great drops of ice, every one about the weight of a talent, came down out of heaven on men: and men said evil things against God because of the punishment of the ice-drops; for it is very great.

⁸ Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.

²⁷ Because as in a thunderstorm the bright light coming from the east is seen even in the west; so will be the coming of the Son of man.

²⁶ When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain, ²⁸ Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

³ He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth. ⁴ After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding. ⁵ He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge; ⁶ For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

³ The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound. ⁵ By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord. ⁶ He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox. ⁷ At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen. ⁸ At the voice of the Lord there is a shaking in the waste land, even a shaking in the waste land of Kadesh. ⁹ At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory. ¹⁰ The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

¹⁰ You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills. ¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water. ¹² The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches. ¹³ He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works. ¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

³⁵ He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

⁸ By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains. ⁹ He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

¹ The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers. ² It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.

¹⁸ I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. ¹⁹ I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country. ²⁰ The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

²² Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

⁷ For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God: ⁸ But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

²⁸ May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

³⁹ Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place be:

¹³ And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,

²⁸ And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.

¹⁷ Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves. ¹⁸ So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.

²¹ O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

⁹ Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number: ¹⁰ Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

⁸ Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

⁹ You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. ¹⁰ You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

⁸ By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

²⁰ By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

²⁴ And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

¹³ At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

²³ Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

⁷ And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

⁴⁵ So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

¹⁶ He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust. ¹⁷ He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

⁹ Who made the Bear and Orion, and the Pleiades, and the store-houses of the south:

⁵ And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.

³¹ Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

²² While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

⁹⁰ Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved. ⁹¹ They are ruled this day by your decisions; for all things are your servants.

⁶ He has put them in their places for ever; he has given them their limits which may not be broken.

³⁵ These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name. ³⁶ If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.

²⁵ The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,

¹⁸ So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.

¹¹ Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

¹ Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

¹⁸ And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.

²³ And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt. ²⁴ So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation. ²⁵ And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.

²⁹ And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.

² And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

¹ Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

³⁵ Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

¹² And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.

¹⁰ And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.

¹⁴ For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.

³² He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

⁸ And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.

¹ I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.

⁵ And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death. ⁶ These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.

³ And I have given him the spirit of God and made him wise and full of knowledge and expert in every sort of handwork,

¹ So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders. ² Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:

⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

⁸ But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

⁶ Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

²⁶ To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

²⁶ For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

⁵ But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

¹ And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

⁵ And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

⁴ He sees the number of the stars; he gives them all their names.

¹⁰ Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹ The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

¹⁰ The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

²¹ The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

¹⁵ The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time. ¹⁶ By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

⁹ Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

²⁴ See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.

⁹ He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

⁸ Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

²⁷ All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time. ²⁸ They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

⁹ He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

²⁶ See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

²⁴ Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!