Isaiah 38 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And it came to pass at that time, [that] Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give orders concerning your house: for you shall die, and not live. ² And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, ³ Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in your sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly. ⁴ And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias, ⁵ Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears: behold, I [will] add to your time fifteen years. ⁶ And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city. ⁷ And this [shall be] a sign to you from the Lord, that God will do this thing; ⁸ behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees [of the dial] by which ten degrees on the house of your father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down. ⁹ THE PRAYER OF EZEKIAS KING OF JUDEA, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, AND WAS RECOVERED FROM HIS SICKNESS. ¹⁰ I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years. ¹¹ I said, I shall no more at all see the salvation of God in the land of the living: I shall no more at all see the salvation of Israel on the earth: I shall no more at all see man. ¹² [My life] has failed from among my kindred: I have parted with the remainder of my life: it has gone forth and departed from me, as one that having pitched a tent takes it down [again]: my breath was with me as a weaver's web, when she that weaves draws near to cut off [the] thread. ¹³ In that day I was given up as to a lion until the morning: so has he broken all my bones: for I was so given up from day [even] to night. ¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me, and removed the sorrow of my soul. ¹⁶ [Yes], O Lord, for it was told you concerning this; and you have revived my breath; and I am comforted, and live. ¹⁷ For you have chosen my soul, that it should not perish: and you have cast all [my] sins behind me. ¹⁸ For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy. ¹⁹ The living shall bless you, as I also [do]: for from this day shall I beget children, who shall declare your righteousness, ²⁰ O God of my salvation; and I will not cease blessing you with the lute all the days of my life before the house of God. ²¹ Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs, and mash them, and apply them as a plaster, and you shall be well. ²² And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house of God.

²³ And Achitophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his ass, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

¹ In those days was Ezekias sick [even] to death. And the prophet Esaias the son of Amos came in to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give charge to your household; [for] you shall die, and not live. ² And Ezekias turned to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, ³ Lord, remember, I pray you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your eyes. And Ezekias wept with a great weeping. ⁴ And Esaias was in the middle court, and the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁵ Turn back, and you shall say to Ezekias the ruler of my people, Thus says the Lord God of your father David, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will heal you: on the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord. ⁶ And I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians, and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my servant's David sake. ⁷ And he said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it upon the ulcer, and he shall be well. ⁸ And Ezekias said to Esaias, What [is] the sign that the Lord will heal me, and I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day? ⁹ And Esaias said, This [is] the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will perform the word which he has spoken, the shadow [of the dial] shall advance ten degrees: [or] if it should go back ten degrees [this would also be the sign]. ¹⁰ And Ezekias said, [It is] a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward on the dial. ¹¹ And Esaias the prophet cried to the Lord: and the shadow returned back ten degrees on the dial.

²⁴ In those days Ezekias was sick even to death, and prayed to the Lord: and he listened to him, and gave him a sign.

¹⁰ Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither you go.

¹ The vision which Esaias the son of Amos saw, which he saw against Juda, and against Jerusalem, in the reign of Ozias, and Joatham, and Achaz, and Ezekias, who reigned over Judea.

² And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the son of Amos, the prophet. And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias,

²¹ And Esaias the son of Amos was sent to Ezekias, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.

¹ And it came to pass at that time, [that] Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give orders concerning your house: for you shall die, and not live. ² And Ezekias turned his face to the wall, and prayed to the Lord, saying, ³ Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you in truth, with a true heart, and have done that which was pleasing in your sight. And Ezekias wept bitterly. ⁴ And the word of the Lord came to Esaias, saying, Go, and say to Ezekias, ⁵ Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, and seen your tears: behold, I [will] add to your time fifteen years. ⁶ And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of the Assyrians: and I will defend this city. ⁷ And this [shall be] a sign to you from the Lord, that God will do this thing; ⁸ behold, I will turn back the shadow of the degrees [of the dial] by which ten degrees on the house of your father the sun has gone down—I will turn back the sun the ten degrees; so the sun went back the ten degrees by which the shadow had gone down.

³ And Esaias the prophet came to king Ezekias, and said to him, What say these men? and whence came they to you? and Ezekias said, They are come to me from a land afar off, from Babylon. ⁴ And Esaias said, What have they seen in your house? and Ezekias said, They have seen everything in my house; and there is nothing in my house which they have not seen: yes, also the [possessions] in my treasuries.

⁷ [If] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation, or upon a kingdom, to cut them off, and to destroy [them]; ⁸ and that nation turn from all their sins, then will I repent of the evils which I purposed to do to them. ⁹ And [if] I shall pronounce a decree upon a nation and kingdom, to rebuild and to plant [it]; ¹⁰ and they do evil before me, so as not to listen to my voice, then will I repent of the good which I spoke of, to do it to them.

⁴ And Jonas began to enter into the city about a day's journey, and he proclaimed, and said, Yet three days, and Nineve shall be overthrown.

¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways; and God repented of the evil which he had said he would do to them; and he did [it] not.

³⁰ And you shall listen to the prayer of your servant, and of your people Israel, which they shall pray toward this place; and you shall hear in your dwelling-place in heaven, and you shall do and be gracious.

¹⁵ O Lord, you shall open my lips; and my mouth shall declare your praise.

¹⁵ that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

²² And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after his begetting Mathusala, two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years.

⁹ And these [are] the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.

¹ And Abram was ninety-nine years old, and the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before me, and be blameless.

¹⁸ And you shall do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord your God, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers,

²¹ And his servants said to him, What [is] this thing that you have done concerning the child? while it was yet living you did fast, and weep, and watch: and when the child was dead you did rise up, and did eat bread, and drink. ²² And David said, While the child yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who knows if the Lord will pity me, and the child live?

⁴ that the Lord may confirm his word which he spoke, saying, If your children shall take heed to their way to walk before me in truth with all their heart, [I promise you], saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

¹⁴ But he removed not the high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.

⁵ He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; and after him there was not any like him among the kings of Juda, nor among those that were before him. ⁶ And he clave to the Lord, he departed not from following him; and he kept his commandments, as many as he commanded Moses.

⁹ And the people rejoiced because of the willingness, for they offered willingly to the Lord with a full heart: and king David rejoiced greatly.

¹⁹ And to Solomon my son give a good heart, to perform your commandments, and [to observe] your testimonies, and your ordinances, and to accomplish the building of your house.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord look upon all the earth, to strengthen every heart that is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly; henceforth there shall be war with you.

² And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

²⁰ And Ezekias did so through all Juda, and did that which was good and right before the Lord his God. ²¹ And in every work which he began in service in the house of the Lord, and in the law, and in the ordinances, he sought his God with all his soul, and wrought, and prospered.

¹ So when Esdras [had] prayed, and when he [had] confessed, weeping and praying before the house of God, a very great assembly of Israel came together to him, men and women and youths; for the people wept, and wept aloud.

⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, [that] I sat down and wept, and mourned for [several] days, and continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

¹⁹ Remember me, O God, for good, [in] all that I have done to this people.

¹⁴ Remember me, O God, in this, and let not my kindness be forgotten which I have wrought in [regard to] the house of the Lord God.

²² and I told the Levites who were purifying themselves, and came and kept the gates, that they should sanctify the sabbath-day. Remember me, O God, for these things, and spare me according to the abundance of your mercy.

³¹ And the offering of the wood-bearers [was] at certain set times, and in the [times of the] first fruits. Remember me, O our God, for good.

¹¹ And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments, ¹² neither shall I transgress; but I have hid his words in my bosom.

⁸ Depart from me, all you⌃ that work iniquity; for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye from those that resist your right hand: you shall screen me by the covering of your wings,

¹ (21) For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, the king shall rejoice in your strength; and in your salvation he shall greatly exult. ² You have granted him the desire of his soul, and have not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause. ³ For you have prevented him with blessings of goodness: you has set upon his head a crown of precious stone.

³ Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident.

² Praise the Lord on the harp; platy to him on a lute of ten strings.

² Turn not away your face from me: in the day [when] I am afflicted, incline your ear to me: in the day [when] I shall call upon you, speedily hear me.

⁹ He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.

⁴ And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and entreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.

³ And Nathan said to the king, Go and do all that [is] in your heart, for the Lord [is] with you. ⁴ And it came to pass in that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ Go, and say to my servant David, Thus says the Lord, You shall not build me a house for me to dwell in.

²⁵ And now, O Lord God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father, [the promises] which you have spoken to him, saying, There shall not be taken from you a man sitting before me on the throne of Israel, provided only your children shall take heed to their ways, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

⁴ And if you will walk before me as David your father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shall keep my ordinances and my commandments: ⁵ then will I establish the throne of your kingdom in Israel for ever, as I spoke to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to rule in Israel.

¹² Only in your days I will not do it for David your father's sake: [but] I will take it out of the hand of your son. ¹³ Only I will not take away the whole kingdom: I will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen.

⁴ Howbeit for David's sake the Lord gave him a remnant, that he might establish his children after him, and might establish Jerusalem.

² Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name [was] Abu, daughter of Zacharias.

¹³ And in the fourteenth year of king Ezekias came up Sennacherim king of the Assyrians against the strong cities of Juda, and took them.

²⁰ And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard your prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.

² And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God [is] with you. ³ And it came to pass in that night, that the word of the Lord came to Nathan, [saying], ⁴ Go and say to David my servant, Thus said the Lord, You shall not build me a house for me to dwell in it.

³ And in the eighth year of his reign, and he [being] yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.

⁵ if even his life should be [but] one day upon the earth: and his months are numbered by him: you have appointed [him] for a time, and he shall by no means exceed [it].

⁵ Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them. ⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, and an angel of the Lord persecuting them.

¹² For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.

⁸ Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will awake early.

³ Turn not man back to [his] low place, whereas you said, Return, you⌃ sons of men? ⁴ For a thousand years in your sight are as the yesterday which is past, and as a watch in the night.

³ He makes your borders peaceful, and fills you with the flour of wheat.

¹³ And he said, Hear you⌃ now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do you⌃ contend against the Lord? ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Emmanuel.

²² So the Lord delivered Ezekias and the dwellers in Jerusalem out of the hand of Sennacherim King of Assyria, and out of the hand of all [his enemies], and gave them rest round about.

⁶ Exalt and rejoice, you⌃ that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

⁴ For thus said the Lord to me, As a lion would roar, or a lion's whelp over prey which he has taken, and cry over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and [the animals] are awe-struck and tremble at the fierceness of his wrath: so the Lord of hosts shall descend to fight upon the mount Sion, [even] upon her mountains. ⁵ As birds flying, so shall the Lord of hosts defend; he shall defend Jerusalem, and he shall rescue, and save and deliver.

³⁵ I will protect this city to save it for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

¹³ I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of covenant between me and the earth.

¹⁷ And Gedeon said to him, If now I have found mercy in your eyes, and you will do this day for me all that you have spoken of with me, ¹⁸ depart not hence until I come to you, and I will bring forth an offering and offer it before you: and he said, I will remain until you return. ¹⁹ And Gedeon went in, and prepared a kid of the goats, and an ephah of fine flour unleavened; and he put the flesh in the basket, and poured the broth into the pot, and brought them forth to him under the turpentine tree, and drew near. ²⁰ And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and put them on that rock, and pour out the broth close by: and he did so. ²¹ And the angel of the Lord stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened bread; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened bread, and the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight. ²² And Gedeon saw that he was an angel of the Lord; and Gedeon said, Ah, ah, Lord my God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

³⁷ behold, I put the fleece of wool in the threshing floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and drought on all the ground, I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said. ³⁸ And it was so: and he rose up early in the morning, and wrung the fleece, and dew dropped from the fleece, a bowl full of water. ³⁹ And Gedeon said to God, Let not, I pray you, your anger be kindled with me, and I will speak yet once; I will even yet make one trial more with the fleece: let now the drought be upon the fleece only, and let there be dew on all the ground.

⁸ And Ezekias said to Esaias, What [is] the sign that the Lord will heal me, and I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day? ⁹ And Esaias said, This [is] the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will perform the word which he has spoken, the shadow [of the dial] shall advance ten degrees: [or] if it should go back ten degrees [this would also be the sign]. ¹⁰ And Ezekias said, [It is] a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward on the dial. ¹¹ And Esaias the prophet cried to the Lord: and the shadow returned back ten degrees on the dial. ¹² At that time Marodach Baladan, son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Ezekias, because he had heard that Ezekias was sick. ¹³ And Ezekias rejoiced at them, and showed all the house of his spices, the silver and the gold, the spices, and the fine oil, and the armory, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing which Ezekias did not show them in his house, and in all his dominion. ¹⁴ And Esaias the prophet went in to king Ezekias, and said to him, What said these men? and whence came they to you? And Ezekias said, they came to me from a distant land, [even] from Babylon. ¹⁵ And he said, What saw they in your house? And he said, They saw all things that [are] in my house: there was nothing in my house which I showed not to them; yes, all that was in my treasures also. ¹⁶ And Esaias said to Ezekias, Hear the word of the Lord: ¹⁷ Behold, the days come, that all things that are in your house shall be taken, and all that your fathers have treasured up until this day, to Babylon; and there shall not fail a word, which the Lord has spoken. ¹⁸ And as for your sons which shall come forth of you, which you shall beget, [the enemy] shall take them, and they shall be eunuchs in the house of the king of Babylon. ¹⁹ And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good [is] the word of the Lord which he has spoken: [only] let there be peace in my days. ²⁰ And the rest of the acts of Ezekias, and all his might, and all that he made, the fountain and the aqueduct, and [how] he brought water into the city, [are] not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? ²¹ And Ezekias slept with his fathers: and Manasses his son reigned in his stead.

¹¹ Ask for yourself a sign of the Lord your God, in the depth or in the height. ¹² And Achaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

³⁰ And this shall be a sign to you, Eat this year what you have sown; and the second year that which is left: and the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

²² And Ezekias said, This is a sign to Ezekias, that I shall go up to the house of God.

¹² Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he destroyed them in Gabaon, and they were destroyed from before the children of Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Aelon. ¹³ And the sun and the moon stood still, until God executed vengeance on their enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; it did not proceed to set till the end of one day. ¹⁴ And there was not such a day either before or after, so that God should listen to a man, because the Lord fought on the side of Israel.

³¹ Notwithstanding, in regard to the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who were sent to him to enquire of him [concerning] the prodigy which came upon the land, the Lord left him, to try him, to know what was in his heart.

¹ Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to God, and spoke, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he is very greatly glorified: horse and rider he has thrown into the sea. ² He was to me a helper and protector for salvation: this is my God and I will glorify him; my father's God, and I will exalt him. ³ The Lord bringing wars to nothing, the Lord [is] his name. ⁴ He has cast the chariots of Pharao and his host into the sea, the chosen mounted captains: they were swallowed up in the Red Sea. ⁵ He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone. ⁶ Your right hand, O God, has been glorified in strength; your right hand, O God, has broken the enemies. ⁷ And in the abundance of your glory you have broken the adversaries to pieces: you sent forth your wrath, it devoured them as stubble. ⁸ And by the breath of your anger the water parted asunder; the waters were congealed as a wall, the waves were congealed in the midst of the sea. ⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoils; I will satisfy my soul, I will destroy with my sword, my hand shall have dominion. ¹⁰ You sent forth your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water. ¹¹ Who is like to you among the gods, O Lord? who is like to you? glorified in holiness, marvelous in glories, doing wonders. ¹² You stretched forth your right hand, the earth swallowed them up. ¹³ You have guided in your righteousness this your people whom you have redeemed, by your strength you have called them into your holy resting-place. ¹⁴ The nations heard and were angry, pangs have seized on the dwellers among the Phylistines. ¹⁵ Then the princes of Edom, and the chiefs of the Moabites hasted; trembling took hold upon them, all the inhabitants of Chanaan melted away. ¹⁶ Let trembling and fear fall upon them; by the greatness of your arm, let them become as stone; till your people pass over, O Lord, till this your people pass over, whom you have purchased. ¹⁷ Bring them in and plant them in the mountain of their inheritance, in your prepared habitation, which you, O Lord, have prepared; the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have made ready. ¹⁸ The Lord reigns for ever and ever and ever. ¹⁹ For the horse of Pharao went in with the chariots and horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought upon them the water of the sea, but the children of Israel walked through dry land in the midst of the sea. ²⁰ And Mariam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, having taken a timbrel in her hand—then there went forth all the women after her with timbrels and dances. ²¹ And Mariam led them, saying, Let us sing to the Lord, for he has been very greatly glorified: the horse and rider has he cast into the sea.

³⁹ Behold, behold that I am [he], and there is no god beside me: I kill, and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal; and there is none who shall deliver out of my hands.

¹ And Debbora and Barac son of Abineem sang in that day, saying, ² A revelation was made in Israel when the people were made willing: Praise you⌃ the Lord. ³ Hear, you⌃ kings, and listen, rulers: I will sing, it is I [who will sing] to the Lord, it is I, I will sing a psalm to the Lord the god of Israel. ⁴ O Lord, in your going forth on Seir, when you went forth out of the land of Edom, the earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, and the clouds dropped water. ⁵ The mountains were shaken before the face of the Lord Eloi, this Sina before the face of the Lord God of Israel. ⁶ In the days of Samegar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, they deserted the ways, and went in by-ways; they went in crooked paths. ⁷ The mighty men in Israel failed, they failed until Debbora arose, until she arose a mother in Israel. ⁸ They chose new gods; then the cities of rulers fought; there was not a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel. ⁹ My heart [inclines] to the orders given in Israel; you⌃ that are willing among the people, bless the Lord. ¹⁰ You⌃ that mount a she-ass at noon-day, you⌃ that sit on the judgment-seat, and walk by the roads of them that sit in judgment by the way; declare ¹¹ [you⌃ that are delivered] from the noise of disturbers among the drawers of water; there shall they relate righteous acts: O Lord, increase righteous acts in Israel: then the people of the Lord went down to the cities. ¹² Awake, awake, Debbora; awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barac, and lead your captivity captive, son of Abineem. ¹³ Then went down the remnant to the strong, the people of the Lord went down for him among the mighty ones from me. ¹⁴ Ephraim rooted them out in Amalec, behind you was Benjamin among your people: the inhabitants of Machir came down with me searching out the enemy, and from Zabulon came they that draw with the scribe's pen of record. ¹⁵ And princess in Issachar were with Debbora and Barac, thus she sent Barac on his feet in the valleys into the portions of Ruben; great [pangs] reached to the heart. ¹⁶ Why did they sit between the sheepfolds to hear the bleating of flocks for the divisions of Ruben? [there were] great searchings of heart. ¹⁷ Galaad [is] on the other side of Jordan where he pitched his tents; and why does Dan remain in ships? Aser sat down on the sea-coasts, and he will tabernacle at his ports. ¹⁸ The people Zabulon exposed their soul to death, and Nephthali came to the high places of their land. ¹⁹ Kings set themselves in array, then the kings of Chanaan fought in Thanaach at the water of Mageddo; they took no gift of money. ²⁰ The stars from heaven set themselves in array, they set themselves [to fight] with Sisara out of their paths. ²¹ The brook of Kison swept them away, the ancient brook, the brook Kison: my mighty soul will trample him down. ²² When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted ²³ to curse Meroz: Curse you⌃ [it], said the angel of the Lord; cursed [is] every one that dwells in it, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to his help among the mighty. ²⁴ Blessed among women be Jael wife of Chaber the Kenite; let her be blessed above women in tents. ²⁵ He asked for water, she gave him milk in a dish; she brought butter of princes. ²⁶ She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, and her right to the hand workman's hammer, and she struck Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and struck him; she nailed through his temples. ²⁷ He rolled down between her feet; he fell and lay between her feet; he bowed and fell: where he bowed, there he fell dead. ²⁸ The mother of Sisara looked down through the window out of the loophole, [saying], Why was his chariot ashamed? why did the wheels of his chariots wait? ²⁹ Her wise ladies answered her, and she returned answers to herself, [saying], ³⁰ Will they not find him dividing the spoil? he will surely be gracious to every man: [there are] spoils of dyed garments for Sisara, spoils of various dyed garments, dyed embroidered garments, they [are] the spoils for his neck. ³¹ Thus let all your enemies perish, O Lord: and they that love him shall be as the going forth of the sun in his strength.

¹ My heart is established in the Lord, my horn is exalted in my God; my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, I have rejoiced in your salvation. ² For there is none holy as the Lord, and there is none righteous as our God; there is none holy besides you. ³ Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord [is] a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs. ⁴ The bow of the mighty has waxed feeble, and the weak have girded themselves with strength. ⁵ They that were full of bread are brought low; and the hungry have forsaken the land; for the barren has born seven, and she that abounded in children has waxed feeble. ⁶ The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up. ⁷ The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up. ⁸ He lifts up the poor from the earth, and raises the needy from the dunghill; to seat him with the princes of the people, and causing them to inherit the throne of glory: ⁹ granting his petition to him that prays; and he blesses the years of the righteous, for by strength can’t man prevail. ¹⁰ The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord [is] holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,

³⁰ And king Ezekias and the princes told the Levites to sing hymns to the Lord in the words of David, and of Asaph the prophet: and they sang hymns with gladness, and fell down and worshipped.

¹⁸ for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.

¹ (19) For the end, a Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.

¹¹ I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. ¹² I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

¹ (117) Alleluia. Praise the Lord, all you⌃ nations: praise him, all you⌃ peoples. ² For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever.

¹⁸ Unveil you mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of your law. ¹⁹ I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.

¹ And in that day you shall say, I [will] bless you, O Lord; for you were angry with me, but you have turned aside your wrath, and have pitied me. ² Behold, my God is my Saviour; I will trust in him, and not be afraid: for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and is become my salvation. ³ Draw you⌃ therefore water with joy out of the wells of salvation. ⁴ And in that day you shall say, sing to the Lord, call aloud upon his name, proclaim his glorious [deeds] among the Gentiles; make mention that his name is exalted. ⁵ Sing praise to the name of the Lord; for he has done great [things]: declare this in all the earth. ⁶ Exalt and rejoice, you⌃ that dwell in Sion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

¹ In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; ² he will strike, and bind us up.

¹ Now the Lord had commanded a great whale to swallow up Jonas: and Jonas was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights. ² And Jonas prayed to the Lord his God out of the belly of the whale, ³ and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice. ⁴ You did cast me into the depths of the heart of the sea, and the floods compassed me: all your billows and your waves have passed upon me. ⁵ And I said, I am cast out of your presence: shall I indeed look again toward your holy temple? ⁶ Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down ⁷ to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored. ⁸ When my soul was failing me, I remembered the Lord; and may my prayer come to you into your holy temple. ⁹ They that observe vanities and lies have forsaken their own mercy.

¹¹ For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?

⁷ Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.

¹¹ My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken. ¹² I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. ¹³ For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister. ¹⁵ Where then is yet my hope? or [where] shall I see my good? ¹⁶ Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

¹ And it came to pass at that time, [that] Ezekias was sick even to death. And Esaias the prophet the son of Amos came to him, and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Give orders concerning your house: for you shall die, and not live.

¹⁴ He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do you plead before him, if you can praise him, as it is [possible] even now. ¹⁵ For he is not [now] regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

⁴ Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: save me for your mercy's sake. ⁵ For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades?

⁵ For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost. ⁶ also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yes, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.

²⁰ And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they can’t help themselves.

⁹ Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

³ So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me. ⁴ Whenever I lie down, I say, When [will it be] day? and whenever I rise up, again [I say] when [will it be] evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning. ⁵ And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption. ⁶ And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope. ⁷ Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.

²⁵ But my life is swifter than a post: [my days] have fled away, and they knew it not. ²⁶ Or again, is there a trace of [their] path [left] by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks [its] prey?

² Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and can’t continue.

¹ I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain [it] not.

¹⁴ You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.

¹¹ For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has [so] increased his mercy toward them that fear him.

⁸ The daughter of Sion shall be deserted as a tent in a vineyard, and as a storehouse of fruits in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

²⁰ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

²⁴ And a lion found him in the way, and killed him; and his body was cast out in the way, and the ass was standing by it, and the lion [also] was standing by the body. ²⁵ And, behold, men [were] passing by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion was standing near the carcase: and they went in and spoke [of it] in the city where the old prophet lived. ²⁶ And [the prophet] that turned him back out of the way heard, and said, This is the man of God who rebelled against the word of the Lord.

¹⁶ For I am hunted like a lion for slaughter; for again you have changed and are terribly destroying me; ¹⁷ renewing against me my torture: and you have dealt with me in great anger, and you have brought trials upon me.

¹² For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly. ¹³ When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark. ¹⁴ They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing [me] they poured out my gall upon the ground.

¹⁰ I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation.

⁸ But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

²⁴ And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, and their children, and their wives: and they reached not the bottom of the den before the lions had the mastery of them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.

¹⁴ Therefore I am as a panther to Ephraim, and as a lion to the house of Juda: and I will tear, and go away; and I will take, and there shall be none to deliver.

³ Who is this? let him join hands with me.

²⁹ I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

³ Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately.

⁴ who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion; ⁵ who satisfies your desire with good things: [so that] your youth shall be renewed like [that] of the eagle. ⁶ The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured. ⁷ He made known his ways to Moses, his will to the children of Israel.

¹ (124) A Song of Degrees. If it had not been that the Lord was among us, let Israel now say; ² if it had not been that the Lord was among us, when men rose up against us; ³ verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us: ⁴ verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

⁷ Send forth your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

¹¹ They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

¹⁷ PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

¹⁶ But they that escape of them shall be delivered, and shall be upon the mountains: and I will kill all [the rest], every one for his iniquities.

⁷ and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maidservants were led [away] as doves moaning in their hearts.

⁸ And what shall I say since Israel has turned his back before his enemy?

¹⁰ And she [was] very much grieved in spirit, and prayed to the Lord, and wept abundantly.

²⁷ And the children of Israel were numbered, and came to meet them: and Israel encamped before them as two little flocks of goats, but Syria filled the land.

²⁷ And she came to Elisaie to the mountain, and laid hold of his feet; and Giezi drew near to thrust her away. And Elisaie said, Let her alone, for her soul [is] much grieved in her, and the Lord has hidden [it] from me, and has not told [it] me.

¹⁰ What shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken your commandments,

¹¹ Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

¹ Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

²⁵ And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness. ¹⁰ I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation.

³ And he afflicted you and straitened you with hunger, and fed you with manna, which your fathers knew not; that he might teach you that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God shall man live.

¹⁹ And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed. ²⁰ And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat; ²¹ until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare. ²² His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades. ²³ Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and show his folly; ²⁴ he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as [fresh] plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow. ²⁵ And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in [his] full strength. ²⁶ And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression [of praise]: for he will render to men [their] due. ²⁷ Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins. ²⁸ Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

²⁰ The hymns of David the son of Jessae are ended.

⁵ For [these blessings] shall happen to them that work righteousness, and they shall remember your ways: behold, you were angry and we have sinned; therefore we have erred,

²⁵ For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me. ²⁶ I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

¹⁸ And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while.

² Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?

³ For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.

⁶ You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. ⁷ I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses.

² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.

² Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save your servant, O God, who hopes in you.

⁴ I will establish your seed for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Pause. ⁵ The heavens shall declare your wonders, O Lord; and your truth in the assembly of the saints. ⁶ For who in the heavens shall be compared to the Lord? and who shall be likened to the Lord among the sons of God?

²⁵ I, [even] I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake, and your sins; and I will not remember [them].

³⁴ From the cry of Esebon even to Aetam their cities uttered their voice, from Zogor to Oronaim, and their tidings [as] a heifer of three years old, for the water also of Nebrin shall be dried up.

⁶ Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, cancelling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of his inheritance? and he has not kept his anger for a testimony, for he delights in mercy. ¹⁹ He will return and have mercy upon us; he will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, [even] all our sins.

³³ And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation.

⁵ For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades?

⁹ Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.

¹⁰ You has brought down the proud as one that is slain; and with the arm of your power you has scattered your enemies. ¹¹ The heavens are your, and the earth is your: you have founded the world, and the fullness of it.

¹⁷ I will offer to you the sacrifice of praise, and will call upon the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows to the Lord, in the presence of all his people,

³² The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness: but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

¹⁹ For I know that he will order his sons, and his house after him, and they will keep the ways of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraam all things whatever he has spoken to him.

²⁶ And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service? ²⁷ that you⌃ shall say to them, This passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

¹⁴ And if your son should ask you hereafter, saying, What is this? then you shall say to him, With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹⁵ And when Pharao hardened [his heart so as not] to send us away, he killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast; therefore do I sacrifice every [offspring] that opens the womb, the males to the Lord, and every firstborn of my sons I will redeem.

⁹ Take heed to yourself, and keep your heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which your eyes have seen, and let them not depart from your heart all the days of your life; and you shall teach your sons and your sons' sons,

⁷ And you shall teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

¹⁹ And you⌃ shall teach them to your children, so as to speak about them when you sit in the house, and when you walk by the way, and when you sleep, and when you rise up.

²¹ saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones? ²² Tell your sons, that Israel went over this Jordan on dry land,

³ They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them]. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them [that are] round about us. ⁵ How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? ⁶ Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon your name.

¹⁷ Render a recompense to your servant: [so] shall I live, and keep your words.

⁴ His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

² The Lord builds up Jerusalem; and he will gather together the dispersed of Israel.

³ Tell your children concerning them, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction [which I suffer] of mine enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death: ¹⁴ that I may declare all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion: I will exult in your salvation.

⁵ Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition.

² My soul shall boast herself in the Lord: let the meek hear, and rejoice.

²⁵ Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

² For his mercy has been abundant toward us: and the truth of the Lord endures for ever.

² While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

⁴ Praise him with timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and the organ.

¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength, and he will perfectly strengthen my feet; he mounts me upon high places, that I may conquer by his song.

⁷ And he said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it upon the ulcer, and he shall be well. ⁸ And Ezekias said to Esaias, What [is] the sign that the Lord will heal me, and I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

⁸ And Ezekias said to Esaias, What [is] the sign that the Lord will heal me, and I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?

¹ (43) A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. ² For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses [me]?

¹ (85) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core. O Lord, you has taken pleasure in your land: you have turned back the captivity of Jacob. ² You have forgiven your people their transgressions; you has covered all their sins. Pause.

¹⁰ Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed [each other]. ¹¹ Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven. ¹² For the Lord will give goodness; and our land shall yield her fruit.

¹ (123) A Song of Degrees. To you who dwell in heaven have I lifted up mine eyes.