Job 30 Cross References - EJ2000

¹ ¶ But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. ² For, unto what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom time was lost? ³ For want and famine they walked alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste. ⁴ Who cut up mallows among the bushes and juniper roots for their food. ⁵ They were driven forth from among men (they cried after them as after a thief). ⁶ They dwelt in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. ⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. ⁸ They were sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth. ⁹ And now I am their song, and I am their byword. ¹⁰ They abhor me, they distance themselves from me, and do not spare to spit in my face. ¹¹ Because God has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also gone out of control before my face. ¹² Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. ¹³ They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper. ¹⁴ They came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity. ¹⁵ ¶ They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes. ¹⁶ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. ¹⁷ My bones pierce me in the night, and my sinews take no rest. ¹⁸ By the great force of my disease my garment is changed; it binds me about as the collar of my coat. ¹⁹ He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. ²⁰ I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me; I present myself, and thou regardest me not. ²¹ Thou art become cruel to me; with the strength of thy hand thou dost hate me. ²² Thou didst lift me up and cause me to ride upon the wind, and didst dissolve my being. ²³ For I know that thou dost conduct me unto death and to the house appointed for all living. ²⁴ But he will not stretch out his hand against the grave; do those who are buried cry out when he destroys them? ²⁵ Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? ²⁶ When I expected good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness. ²⁷ My bowels boil and do not rest; the days of affliction came upon me. ²⁸ I went about darkened, but not by the sun; I stood up and cried out in the congregation. ²⁹ I have become a brother to dragons and a companion to owls. ³⁰ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. ³¹ My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

¹⁹ in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

¹² when thou tillest the ground, from now on it shall not yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. ¹³ ¶ And Cain said unto the LORD, My iniquity is greater than I can bear. ¹⁴ Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I hide; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass that anyone that finds me shall slay me.

¹² And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

²⁷ And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes;

¹⁴ And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

⁹ then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe from off his foot and spit in his face and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.

³¹ So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD, but let those that love thee be as the sun when he rises in all his might. And the land had rest forty years.

² And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, and because of the Midianites the sons of Israel made dens in the mountains and caves and strongholds.

²¹ I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?

¹⁵ And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

¹ ¶ And David departed from there and escaped to the cave Adullam; {Heb. righteousness or justice of the people}; and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him. ² And every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt and all whose souls were bitter gathered themselves unto him, and he became the captain over them, and there were about four hundred men with him.

¹⁴ For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.

⁵ ¶ And when King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came forth, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came forth cursing ⁶ and casting stones at David and at all the slaves of King David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. ⁷ And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial; ⁸ the LORD has returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom, thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thy evil because thou art a bloody man.

²³ Then he went up from there unto Bethel, and as he was going up by the way, the young men {or servants} of the city came forth and mocked him, saying, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

³⁸ ¶ And Elisha returned to Gilgal. Then there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, so he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot and make pottage for the sons of the prophets. ³⁹ And one went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine and gathered his lap full of wild grapes and came and shred them into the pot of pottage, for they knew them not.

¹⁸ He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

²⁷ And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

³ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

⁷ ¶ So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head. ⁸ And he took a potsherd to scratch himself with, and he was sitting among the ashes.

¹⁹ The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. ²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. ²⁶ I never had prosperity, nor did I secure myself, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me. ⁵ Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder?

⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

⁴ When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? I measure the night, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. ⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and abominable.

⁹ As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he that goes down to Sheol, who shall not come up again;

¹⁴ then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? ²¹ And why dost thou not take away my rebellion and pass over my iniquity? For now I shall sleep in the dust; and if thou shalt seek me in the morning, I shall not be found.

¹⁷ For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.

²² ¶ One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort myself; ²⁸ I am afraid of all my troubles; I know that thou wilt not hold me guiltless.

³¹ yet thou shalt plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes shall abhor me.

³ Is it good unto thee that thou should oppress, that thou should reject the work of thine hands and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

⁸ ¶ Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

¹⁴ ¶ If I sinned, wilt thou mark me and not cleanse me from my iniquity? ¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction. ¹⁶ And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me.

¹⁶ And thou dost increase. Thou dost hunt me as a fierce lion; turning and doing marvels in me. ¹⁷ Thou dost renew thy plagues against me and increase thine indignation upon me, bringing up armies against me.

¹² The vain man shall make himself understood, though man is born like a wild ass’s colt.

⁴ He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.

¹⁸ He looses the bond of kings and girds their loins with a girdle.

²¹ He pours contempt upon princes and weakens the strength of the mighty.

²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? Wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? ²⁶ Why dost thou write bitter things against me and make me carry the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷ Thou dost put my feet also in the stocks and look narrowly unto all my paths; thou dost set a print upon the heels of my feet. ²⁸ And man, is as a rotten thing that is being consumed, as a garment that is moth eaten.

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.

⁹ His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have opened their mouth against me; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. ¹¹ God has delivered me unto the liar, and in the hands of the wicked he has caused me to tremble. ¹² I was prosperous, but he has broken me asunder; he has taken me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compassed me round about; he cleaved my kidneys asunder and did not spare; he poured out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He broke me with breach upon breach; he ran upon me like a giant.

⁶ He has made me a byword of the peoples; and before them I have been as a tambourine.

¹⁴ I have said to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister.

⁶ The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

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

⁶ know now that God has overthrown me and has compassed me with his net. ⁷ Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and there shall be no judgment.

⁷ Behold, I shall cry out that I have been wronged, and I shall not be heard; I shall cry aloud, and there shall be no judgment. ⁸ ¶ He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.

⁸ ¶ He has walled off my way and I shall not pass, and he has set darkness in my paths. ⁹ He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

¹² His troops came together and raised up their way over me and encamp round about my tent. ¹³ He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me.

¹³ He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are verily estranged from me. ¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

¹⁴ My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. ¹⁵ Those that dwell in my house and my maids have counted me for a stranger; I was an alien in their sight. ¹⁶ I called my slave, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. ¹⁷ My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body. ¹⁸ Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.

¹⁸ Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me. ¹⁹ All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me.

¹⁹ All my intimate friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved are turned against me. ²⁰ My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

²² Why do ye persecute me as God and are not satisfied with my flesh?

¹⁸ They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.

³³ The clods of the river valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as there were innumerable before him.

¹⁶ Who were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood.

⁶ Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but rather he would put it in me.

¹⁷ Why was I not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered my face with the darkness.

⁴ They turn the needy out of the way; and all the poor of the earth hide themselves from them. ⁵ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for a prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

¹³ ¶ They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths. ¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief. ¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

⁹ Will God hear his cry when the tribulation comes upon him?

²¹ The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.

⁸ The young men would see me and hide themselves, and the aged would arise and stand. ⁹ The princes would refrain from talking and lay their hand on their mouth; ¹⁰ the voice of the principals would not be noticed, and their tongue would cleave to the roof of their mouth.

¹⁸ ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

¹⁶ ¶ If I have disturbed the desire of the poor or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail; ¹⁷ or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless has not eaten thereof; ¹⁸ (for from my youth the fatherless was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother’s womb) ¹⁹ if I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any needy without a covering; ²⁰ if his loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep; ²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw that they would all help me in the gate;

²³ For I feared destruction from God, against whose highness I could have no power.

¹⁹ ¶ He is chastened also upon his bed with strong pain in all his bones, ²⁰ so that his life abhors bread and his soul dainty food. ²¹ His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

⁴ Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand over my mouth.

⁶ Therefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.

⁴ ¶ The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

² Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled. ³ My soul is also greatly troubled; but thou, O LORD, how long? ⁴ Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. ⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in Sheol who shall give thee thanks? ⁶ I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.

¹ To the Overcomer upon Sheminith,
A Psalm of David. ¶ Help, LORD; for the merciful man ceases, for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

⁴ In whose eyes the vile person is not esteemed; but he honours those that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt and does not change.

⁴ The pain of death compassed me, and the rivers of Belial made me afraid.

¹⁰ And he rode upon a cherub and flew: yea, he flew upon the wings of the wind.

² O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

⁴ Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

⁹ Be ye not as the horse or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in subjection with bit and bridle, or they will not come near unto thee.

¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer rose up in my bosom. ¹⁴ I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother. ¹⁵ But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; yea, the smiters gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me apart and did not cease: ¹⁶ With immature hypocritical mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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

²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it; let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore. ³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. ⁴ For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. ⁵ My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

⁵ My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. ⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

⁶ I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. ⁸ I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

¹² For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to see; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.

⁴ I will remember these things; I will pour out my soul in me. When I shall be included in the number; I will go with them to the house of God with voice of joy and praise, dancing in the multitude.

⁹ I will say unto God, My rock, why hast thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

² For thou art the God of my strength; why dost thou cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

¹⁴ Thou makest us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁹ though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death.

¹⁰ For he sees that all the wise men die, likewise the fool and the ignorant perish and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses are eternal and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. ¹² Nevertheless man will not abide forever in honour; he is like the beasts that are cut off. ¹³ This their way is their folly; yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

⁴ My heart is sore pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. ⁵ Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

¹ To the Overcomer upon
Shoshannim (lilies), A Psalm of David. ¶ Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. ² I sink in deep mire where there is no standing; I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

¹¹ I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them. ¹² They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

¹² They that sat in the gate spoke against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters.

¹⁴ Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not drown; let me be delivered from those that hate me and out of the deep waters. ¹⁵ Let not the violent force of the waters overcome me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they boast that thou hast slain their enemies.

⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? ⁸ Is his mercy gone for ever? does his word fail from generation to generation? ⁹ Has God forgotten to have mercy? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

⁴ O LORD God of the hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? ⁵ Thou dost feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and destitute; from my youth up I have feared thee and been in awe of thee.

¹³ The mighty arm is thine; strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.

³ For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as in a hearth.

⁶ I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert.

³ who dost establish his chambers between the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks upon the wings of the wind,

¹⁰ Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg; let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

⁸³ ¶ For I am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.

¹ ¶ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. ² We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof; ³ when there, those that carried us away captive asked us for the words of the song; with our harps of joy hung upon the willows saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴ How shall we sing the song of the LORD in the land of strangers?

⁴ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the man of violence, who have purposed to overthrow my steps. ⁵ The proud have hid a snare for me and cords; they have spread a net; on the path they have set snares for me. Selah.

⁷ ¶ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.

²² How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?

²¹ ¶ The sinner despises his neighbour, but he that has mercy on the poor is blessed.

³¹ ¶ He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he that has mercy on the poor, honours him.

²² ¶ Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

⁵ ¶ Whosoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he that is glad regarding the calamity of someone else shall not go unpunished.

⁷ All the brethren of the poor hate him; how much more shall his friends separate themselves from him? He shall seek their friendship and not find it.

¹⁷ ¶ He that gives unto the poor lends unto the LORD, and he will give him his reward.

⁸ ¶ He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

⁴ a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

⁸ There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death, and weapons are of no use in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

⁵ For the living know that they shall die, but the dead do not know any thing; neither do they have any more reward, for their memory is placed into oblivion.

⁵ when they shall also be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and appetite shall fail: because man goes to the home of his age, and the mourners shall go about the streets; ⁶ before the silver chain is broken, and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern; ⁷ and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.

⁵ Why should I chastise you any more? Ye will revolt more and more; every head is sick, and every heart faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

¹⁹ And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth, because of the terrible presence of the LORD and because of the glory of his majesty when he shall arise to smite the earth.

⁵ And the people shall do violence, one against another, and each one against his neighbour; the child shall rise up against the ancient and the base against the honourable.

¹² The oppressors of my people are many, and women rule over him. O my people, those who lead thee cause thee to err and twist the way of thy paths.

⁷ now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his power, and he shall come up over all his channels and go over all his banks: ⁸ And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

²¹ But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. ²² And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

¹³ The peoples shall make noise like the rushing of great waters, but God shall reprehend them, and they shall flee far off and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like the tumbleweed before the whirlwind.

⁴ My heart panted; the horror frightened me; the night of my pleasure he has turned into fear unto me.

¹² Therefore the Lord GOD of the hosts did call in this day unto weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:

⁷ The new wine is lost; the vine is sick; all those who were merryhearted sigh. ⁸ The mirth of tambourines ceases; the noise of those that rejoice ends; the joy of the harp ceases. ⁹ They shall not drink wine with a song; the drink shall be bitter to them that would drink it.

⁶ For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will invent iniquity to work unrighteousness and to speak scornfully against the LORD, leaving the soul of the hungry empty and taking away the drink of the thirsty.

¹³ I reckoned that I had until morning. As a lion, he broke all my bones: from the morning even unto the night thou shalt make an end of me. ¹⁴ Like a crane or a swallow, so did I complain; I mourned as a dove; I raised my eyes upward, O LORD, I am suffering violence; comfort me.

²² I have undone, as a cloud, thy rebellions, and thy sins, as a mist, return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

⁶ I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

¹⁰ ¶ Who is among you that fears the LORD? Hearken unto the voice of his slave. He who walked in darkness and had no light; let him trust in the name of the LORD and stay upon his God.

³ He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. ⁴ ¶ Surely he has borne our sicknesses and suffered our pain: and we considered him stricken, smitten of God, and cast down.

¹² Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil unto the strong because he has poured out his soul unto death, and he was numbered with the rebellious, having born the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

⁷ Is it not to share thy bread with the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out into thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou not hide thyself from thy brother? ⁸ ¶ Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall gather thee.

¹¹ At that time it shall be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places of the wilderness came toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse. ¹² A wind much more violent than these shall come unto me; for now I will also speak judgments against them.

¹⁹ ¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the shofar, the alarm of war.

¹⁸ The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger.

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

¹⁷ But if ye will not hear this, my soul shall weep in secret because of your pride; and weeping bitterly, my eyes shall be undone in tears because the LORD’s flock was carried away captive.

¹⁹ Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath thy soul loathed Zion? Why didst thou cause us to be smitten when no healing remains for us? We waited for peace, and there was no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

¹⁸ Why was my pain perpetual and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar and as waters that fail?

²⁰ Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath from them.

¹⁴ All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they do not seek thee; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the whip of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

²⁰ Peradventure is Ephraim a precious son unto me? Peradventure is he unto me a delightful child? With all this since I spoke of him, I have remembered him constantly. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; in tenderness I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

⁶ Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

²⁰ Resh Look, O LORD; for I am in distress; my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled; abroad the sword bereaves; at home there is as death.

¹¹ Caph My eyes fail with tears; my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

¹ ¶ Aleph I am a man that sees affliction in the rod of his wrath. ² Aleph He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light. ³ Aleph Surely he is turned against me; he turns his hand against me all the day. ⁴ Beth My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.

⁸ Gimel Even when I cried and shouted, he shut out my prayer.

¹⁴ He I was a derision to all my people and their song every day.

⁴⁴ Samech Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through.

⁶³ Schin Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

⁸ Cheth Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered; it is dry like a stick.

¹⁰ Our skin became black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

¹⁵ The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

² Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part and smite about it with a knife; and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

²⁵ that they shall drive thee from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall feed thee with grass of the field as the oxen, and with the dew of heaven shalt thou be bathed, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou shalt understand that the most High takes rule over the kingdom of men and that he shall give it to whoever he will.

²⁷ Therefore, O king, approve my counsel and redeem thy sins with righteousness and thine iniquities with mercies unto the poor: behold the medicine for thy sin.

³² and they drive thee from among men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they shall feed thee as the oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee until thou know that the most High takes rule in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever he will. ³³ The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from among men and ate grass as the oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

¹⁸ ¶ Then the king went to his palace and lay down without eating; neither were instruments of music brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.

¹⁹ The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

⁴ ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

³ Therefore they shall be as the morning mist and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor and as the smoke out of the chimney.

¹⁴ Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, neither am I a prophet’s son, but I am a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:

⁸ ¶ Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls.

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth was pained because of good; therefore evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

¹⁵ And I am very sore displeased with the Gentiles that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

⁸ I also cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul was in anguish for them, and their soul also abhorred me.

³ and I rejected Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

²³ But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she cries out after us.

⁵⁶ But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

⁶⁷ Then they spit in his face and buffeted him, and others smote him with the staves,

⁶⁷ Then they spit in his face and buffeted him, and others smote him with the staves, ⁶⁸ saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ; who is he that smote thee?

³⁰ And they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head.

³⁹ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads ⁴⁰ and saying, Thou that wouldst destroy the temple and build it in three days, save thyself. If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross {Gr. stauros – stake}. ⁴¹ Likewise also the princes of the priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, ⁴² He saved others; he cannot save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross {Gr. stauros – stake}, and we will believe him. ⁴³ He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him, for he said, I am the Son of God. ⁴⁴ The thieves also, who were crucified with him, reproached him with the same.

²⁴ And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

⁶⁵ And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him, Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.

¹⁷ And they clothed him with purple and platted a crown of thorns and put it about his head ¹⁸ and began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! ¹⁹ And they smote him on the head with a reed and spit upon him and bowing their knees worshipped him. ²⁰ And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him and put his own clothes on him and led him out to crucify him.

¹⁶ And he longed to fill his belly with the husks that the swine ate, but no one gave them unto him.

⁴¹ ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it,

¹⁴ said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me as one that perverts the people; and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things of which ye accuse him;

¹⁸ And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas

³⁵ And the people stood beholding. And the princes also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Christ, the chosen of God.

³⁹ And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou art the Christ, save thyself and us.

³⁵ Jesus wept.

⁵ But the disobedient Jews, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city on an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep.

⁹ As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains for ever.

¹² One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.

²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy); they wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth.

²⁶ If anyone among you thinks to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is vain.

⁶ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth and the princes and the rich and the captains and the strong and every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains