Job 40 Cross References - LXX2012

¹ And the Lord yet again answered and spoke to Job out of the cloud, [saying], ² Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me. ³ Do not set aside my judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous? ⁴ Hast you an arm like the Lord's? or do you thunder with a voice like his? ⁵ Assume now a lofty bearing and power; and clothe yourself with glory and honor. ⁶ And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one. ⁷ Bring down also the proud man; and consume at once the ungodly. ⁸ And hide them together in the earth; and fill their faces with shame. ⁹ [Then] will I confess that your right hand can save [you]. ¹⁰ But now look at the wild beasts with you; they eat grass like oxen. ¹¹ Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. ¹² He sets up his tail like a cypress; and his nerves are wrapped together. ¹³ His sides are sides of brass; and his backbone is [as] cast iron. ¹⁴ This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by his angels. ¹⁵ And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep. ¹⁶ He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, and reed, and bulrush. ¹⁷ And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and [so do] the bushes of the field. ¹⁸ If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trust that Jordan will rush up into his mouth. ¹⁹ [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; [one] shall catch [him] with a cord, and pierce his nose. ²⁰ But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose? ²¹ Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp? ²² Will he address you with a petition? softly, with the voice of a suppliant? ²³ And will he make a covenant with you? and will you take him for a perpetual servant? ²⁴ And will you play with him as with a bird? or bind him as a sparrow for a child? ²⁵ And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him? ²⁶ And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail; neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing vessels. ²⁷ But you shall lay your hand upon him [once], remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done any more.

¹ And after Elius had ceased from speaking, the Lord spoke to Job through the whirlwind and clouds, [saying],

⁶ And send forth messengers with wrath; and lay low every haughty one.

¹¹ For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? ¹² and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?

²⁰ For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?

²³ Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in.

¹² Am I a sea, or a serpent, that you have set a watch over me?

¹⁹ How long do you not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle? ²⁰ If I have sinned, what shall I be able to do, O you that understand the mind of men? why have you made me as your accuser, and [why] am I a burden to you? ²¹ Why have you not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? but now I shall depart to the earth; and in the morning I am no more.

³ For if he would enter into judgment with him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of his charges of a thousand.

¹⁷ Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause. ¹⁸ For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

³² For you are not man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment. ³³ Would that [he] our mediator were [present], and a reprover, and one who should hear [the cause] between both. ³⁴ Let him remove [his] rod from me, and let not his fear terrify me: ³⁵ so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious [of guilt].

³ Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly. ⁴ Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees? ⁵ Or is your life human, or your years [the years] of a man, ⁶ that you have enquired into mine iniquity, and searched out my sins? ⁷ For you know that I have not committed iniquity: but who is he that can deliver out of your hands?

¹⁴ And if I should sin, you watch me; and you have not cleared me from iniquity. ¹⁵ Or if I should be ungodly, woe is me: and if I should be righteous, I can’t lift myself up, for I am full of dishonor. 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.

²¹ Withhold [your] hand from me: and let not your fear terrify me. ²² Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer. ²³ How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are. ²⁴ Therefore hide you yourself from me, and deem me your enemy? ²⁵ Will you be startled [at me], as [at] a leaf shaken by the wind? or will you set yourself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze? ²⁶ for you have written evil things against me, and you have compassed me with the sins of my youth. ²⁷ And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.

¹⁶ But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you? ¹⁷ An you have sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.

¹¹ He has attacked me with the keen glances of his eyes; with his sharp [spear] he has struck me [down] upon my knees; and they have run upon me with one accord. 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. ¹⁵ They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in [their] might. ¹⁶ They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground. ¹⁷ My belly has been parched with wailing, and darkness is on my eyelids. ¹⁸ Yet there was no injustice in my hands, and my prayer is pure. ¹⁹ Earth, cover not over the blood of my flesh, and let my cry have no place. ²⁰ And now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high. ²¹ Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

⁶ Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled [me], and has raised his bulwark against me. ⁷ Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: [or] I will cry out, but [there is] nowhere judgment. ⁸ I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face. ⁹ And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head. ¹⁰ He has torn me around about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree. ¹¹ And he has dreadfully handled me in anger, and has counted me for an enemy.

² [As] God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul;

²¹ They attacked me also without mercy: you have scourged me with a strong hand.

¹³ But you say, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

¹⁰ If anything has been, its name has already been called: and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is stronger than he.

¹⁴ Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;

⁹ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it? ¹⁰ As though one should say to [his] father, What will you beget me? and to his mother, What are you bringing forth? ¹¹ For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who has formed the things that are to come, Enquire of me concerning my sons, and concerning the works of my hands command me.

⁸ for he that has justified me draws near; who is he that pleads with me? let him stand up against me at the same time: yes, who is he that pleads with me? let him draw near to me.

² Son of man, what mean you⌃ by this parable among the children of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten unripe grapes, and the children's teeth have been set on edge?

²⁷ And Abraam answered and said, Now I have begun to speak to my Lord, and I am earth and ashes.

¹⁰ Let there be to me a sufficiency of all the justice and all the truth which you have wrought with your servant; for with this my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two camps.

¹⁹ And they said to him, Be silent, lay your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for you to be the priest of the house of one man, or to be the priest of a tribe and house for a family of Israel?

¹⁰ And the heart of David struck him after he had numbered the people; and David said to the Lord, I have sinned grievously, O Lord, [in] what I have now done: remove, I pray you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have been exceedingly foolish.

⁴ And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray you, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.

⁶ and I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded, O my God, to lift up my face to you: for our transgressions have abounded over our head, and our trespasses have increased even to heaven.

¹⁵ O Lord God of Israel, you [are] righteous; for we remain [yet] escaped, as at this day: behold, we [are] before you in our trespasses: for we can’t stand before you on this account.

³³ But you [are] righteous in all the things that come upon us; for you have wrought faithfully, but we have greatly sinned.

³¹ you had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment had abhorred me.

²¹ Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let mine eye weep before him.

⁵ Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which he would speak to me, and I would perceive what he would tell me. ⁶ Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me; ⁷ for truth and reproof are from him; and he would bring forth my judgment to an end.

⁹ And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

³⁷ And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor:

⁶ Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness.

⁴ You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue. ⁵ Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.

³² If you abandon yourself to mirth, and stretch forth your hand in a quarrel, you shall be disgraced.

⁵ And I said, Woe is me, for I am pricked to the heart; for being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell in the midst of a people having unclean lips; and I have seen with mine eyes the King, the Lord of hosts.

⁶ All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his way; and the Lord gave him up for our sins.

⁶ and we are all become as unclean, and all our righteousness as a filthy rag: and we have fallen as leaves because of our iniquities; thus the wind shall carry us [away].

⁵ we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from your commandments and from your judgments:

⁷ To you, O Lord, [belongs] righteousness, an to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever you has scattered them, for the sin which they committed.

¹⁶ The nations shall see and be ashamed; and at all their might they shall lay their hands upon their mouth, their ears shall be deafened.

²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth fear before him.

¹³ Let all flesh fear before the Lord: for he has risen up from his holy clouds.

¹⁰ And the king of Israel sent to the place which Elisaie mentioned to him, and saved himself thence not once or twice.

¹⁵ For though I be righteous, he will not listen to me: I will entreat his judgment.

¹⁴ For when the Lord speaks once, or a second time,

³¹ For [there is] one that says to the Mighty One, I have received [blessings]; I will not take a pledge: ³² I will see apart from myself: do you show me if I have done unrighteousness; I will not do [so] any more.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that swears by him shall be praised; for the mouth of them that speak unjust things has been stopped.

¹⁸ Come down from [your] glory, and sit down in a damp place: Daebon shall be broken, because Moab is destroyed: there has gone up against you one to ravage your strong-hold. ¹⁹ Stand by the way, and look, you that dwell in Arer; and ask him that is fleeing, and him that escapes, and say, What has happened?

³ For I am conscious of mine iniquity; and my sin is continually before me. ⁴ Against you only have I sinned, and done evil before you: that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.

²² Then shall you call, and I will listen to you: or you shall speak, and I will give you an answer.

³ Who would then know that I might find him, and come to an end [of the matter]? ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and he would fill my mouth with arguments.

³ Gird your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and do you answer me.

⁴ But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.

³ Is it good before you if I be unrighteous? for you have disowned the work of your hands, and attended to the counsel of the ungodly.

² [As] God lives, who has thus judge me; and the Almighty, who has embittered my soul; ³ verily, while my breath is yet in [me], and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils, ⁴ my lips shall not speak evil words, neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts. ⁵ Far be it from me that I should justify you till I die; for I will not let go my innocence, ⁶ but keeping fast to [my] righteousness I will by no means let it go: for I am not conscious to myself of having done any thing amiss.

² Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous: the Lord has removed my judgment. ⁶ And he has erred in my judgment: my wound is severe without unrighteousness [of mine].

² What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord? ³ I will answer you, and your three friends.

⁴ You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue.

²⁷ For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?

¹⁸ except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, you⌃ shall be beaten down by it.

⁶ Your right hand, O God, has been glorified in strength; your right hand, O God, has broken the enemies.

⁴ For he is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against him and endured?

⁶ Though he should come on me in [his] great strength, then he would not threaten me;

¹² For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal. ¹³ But you say, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

⁴ After him shall be a cry with a [loud] voice; he shall thunder with the voice of his excellency, yet he shall not cause men to pass away, for one shall hear his voice. ⁵ The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice: for he has done great things which we knew not;

³ O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit.

³ And he put a new song into my mouth, [even] a hymn to our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall hope in the Lord. ⁴ Blessed [is] the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and [who] has not regarded vanities and false frenzies. ⁵ O Lord my God, you have multiplied your wonderful works, and in your thoughts there is none who shall be likened to you: I declared and spoke [of them]: they exceeded number. ⁶ Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and [sacrifice] for sin you did not require. ⁷ Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me, ⁸ I desired to do your will, O my God, and your law in the midst of mine heart. ⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, you know my righteousness.

¹⁰ [As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years: and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

¹³ Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated concerning your servants.

⁹ What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? shall the thing formed answer him that formed it?

² And you shall make holy apparel for Aaron your brother, for honor and glory.

¹¹ Your, O Lord, [is] the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the might: for you are Lord of all things that are in heaven and upon the earth: before your face every king and nation is troubled.

¹⁹ Hast you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?

⁵ They cried to you, and were saved: they hoped in you, and were not ashamed.

³ Their waters have roared and been troubled, the mountains have been troubled by his might. Pause. ⁴ The flowings of the river gladden the city of God: the Most High has sanctified his tabernacle.

² Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

¹⁶ I will satisfy him with length of days, and show him my salvation.

¹ (94) A Psalm of David for the fourth [day] of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself.

¹ (105) Alleluia. Give thanks to the Lord, and call upon his name; declare his works among the heathen. ² Sing to him, yes, sing praises to him: tell forth all his wonderful works.

⁴ For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; and will exalt the meek with salvation.

² And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,

¹⁶ And for this purpose have you been preserved, that I might display in you my strength, and that my name might bepublished in all the earth. ¹⁷ Do you then yet exert yourself to hinder my people, so as not to let them go?

¹¹ Now know I that the Lord is great above all gods, because of this, wherein they attacked them.

²² For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

²³ If by any means he would fill his belly, let [God] send upon him the fury of wrath; let him bring a torrent of pains upon him.

²² And [God] shall cast [trouble] upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

⁶ And they shall speak of the power of your terrible [acts]; and recount your greatness.

¹¹ For the eyes of the Lord are high, but man is low; and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;

¹⁷ And every man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall fall: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, [that] I will visit upon the proud heart, [even] upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of [my] understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me. ¹⁵ Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so; ¹⁶ but the Lord of hosts shall send dishonor upon your honor, and burning fire shall be kindled upon your glory. ¹⁷ And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass. ¹⁸ In that day the mountains shall be consumed, and the hills, and the forests, and [fire] shall devour [both] soul and body: and he that flees shall be as one fleeing from burning flame. ¹⁹ And they that are left of them shall be a [small] number, and a child shall write them.

²⁵ So he brought upon them the fury of his wrath; and the war, and those that burnt round about them, prevailed against them; yet no one of them knew [it], neither did they lay [it] to heart.

² And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus says the Lord; Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God:

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was emboldened to act proudly, he was deposed from his royal throne, and [his] honor was taken from him. ²¹ And he was driven forth from men; and his heart was given him after the nature of wild beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and they fed him with grass as an ox, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the most high God is Lord of the kingdom of men, and will give it to whoever he shall please. ²² And you accordingly, his son, O Baltasar, has not humbled your heart before God: know you not all this? ²³ And you has been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before you the vessels of his house, and you, and your nobles, and your mistresses, and your concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and you has praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are your breath, and all your ways has you not glorified.

³ Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling [as you do] in the holes of the rocks, [as one that] exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground? ⁴ If you should mount up as the eagle, and if you should make your nest among the stars, thence will I bring you down, says the Lord.

⁶ Who shall stand before his anger? and who shall withstand in the anger of his wrath? his wrath brings to nothing kingdoms, and the rocks are burst asunder by him.

¹ For, behold, a day comes burning as an oven, and it shall consume them; and all the aliens, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that is coming shall set them on fire, says the Lord Almighty, and there shall not be left of them root or branch.

⁷ The Lord makes poor, and makes rich; he brings low, and lifts up.

²⁰ And draw not forth all the mighty [men] by night, so that the people should go up instead of them.

²⁵ The Lord pulls down the houses of scorners; but he establishes the border of the widow.

³ If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour [it] out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.

⁶ I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

¹¹ And I will command evils for the whole world, and [will visit] their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.

³ I am full of trodden [grape], and of the nations there is not a man with me; and I trampled them in my fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

⁵ And they shall be as warriors treading clay in the ways in war; and they shall set the battle in array, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be put to shame.

³ And you⌃ shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty.

⁸ And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Will you even force [my] wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.

¹³ For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me!

¹³ And the hypocrites in heart will array wrath [against themselves]; they will not cry, because he has bound them.

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay your vows to the Most High.

¹⁰ Now therefore enter you⌃ into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of his might, when he shall arise to strike terribly the earth.

³ Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty;

⁶ Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.

²⁹ He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good. ²⁶ And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

⁸ He will survey the mountains [as] his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.

²⁰ But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?

¹⁴ He suffered no man to wrong them; and he rebuked kings for their sakes:

²³ and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as [his] range.

⁴ I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead brazen.

¹³ And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.

¹² If you⌃ will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

²⁴ And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

¹ In that day God shall bring [his] holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.

¹⁵ And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.

²⁶ He sent fort Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.

⁸ He sends his word to Jacob, his ordinances and judgments to Israel. ⁹ He has not done so to any [other] nation; and he has not shown them his judgments.

⁶ And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus. ⁷ And all the green herbage round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.

⁷ And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall [be poured] into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes.

⁴⁰ And on the first day you⌃ shall take goodly fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and thick boughs of trees, and willows, and branches of osiers from the brook, to rejoice before the Lord your God seven days in the year.

⁷ Shall [Moab] even thus be delivered? for I [will] bring the Arabians upon the valley, and they shall take it.

⁵ And he took of the seed of the land, and sowed it in a field planted by much water; he set it in a conspicuous place.

¹⁰ And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until you come to Zogora.

¹⁵ And when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered upon Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were dipped in part of the water of Jordan; (now Jordan overflowed all its banks about the time of wheat harvest:)

⁸ O God, I have declared my life to you; you has set my tears before you, even according to your promise.

¹⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord, [even] the Lord, Behold, I lay for the foundations of Sion a costly stone, a choice, a corner-stone, a precious [stone], for its foundations; and he that believes [on him] shall by no means be ashamed.

²⁵ and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

¹ Hast you not seen him? and have you not wondered at the things said [of him]? Do you not fear because preparation has been made by me? for who is there that resists me? ² Or who will resist me, and abide, since the whole [world] under heaven is mine?