Psalms 102 Cross References - Leeser

¹ A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out before the Lord his complaint. ^(102:2) O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto thee. ^{2 (102:3)} Hide not thy face from me on the day when I am distressed; incline unto me thy ear; on the day when I call, answer me speedily. ^{3 (102:4)} For my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are burning like a hearth. ^{4 (102:5)} Struck by heat like the herb and dried up is my heart; for I forget to eat my bread. ^{5 (102:6)} Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my flesh. ^{6 (102:7)} I am like the pelican of the wilderness: I am become like the owl amid ruins. ^{7 (102:8)} I watch, and I am become like a night-bird sitting alone upon the housetop. ^{8 (102:9)} All the day my enemies reproach me: they that mock me swear by me. ^{9 (102:10)} For ashes do I eat like bread, and my drink I mingle with weeping; ^{10 (102:11)} Because of thy indignation and thy wrath; for thou hadst lifted me up, and hast cast me down. ^{11 (102:12)} My days are like a shadow that declineth; and like the herb I wither. ^{12 (102:13)} But thou, O Lord, wilt sit enthroned for ever; and thy memorial is unto all generations. ^{13 (102:14)} Thou wilt indeed arise; thou wilt have mercy upon Zion; for it is time to favor her, for the appointed time is coming. ^{14 (102:15)} For thy servants hold dear her stones, and her very dust they cherish. ^{15 (102:16)} Then shall nations fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory: ^{16 (102:17)} When the Lord shalt have built up Zion, he appeareth in his glory; ^{17 (102:18)} When he hath regarded the prayer of the forsaken, and doth not despise their prayer. ^{18 (102:19)} This shall be written down for the latest generation; and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. ^{19 (102:20)} For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord hath cast from heaven his view to the earth: ^{20 (102:21)} To hear the sighing of the prisoner; to loosen those that are doomed to death: ^{21 (102:22)} That men may proclaim in Zion the name of the Lord, and his praise in Jerusalem; ^{22 (102:23)} When people are gathered together, and kingdoms, to serve the Lord.— ^{23 (102:24)} He hath weakened on the way my strength; he hath shortened my days. ^{24 (102:25)} I will say, O my God! take me not away in the midst of my days: throughout all generations are thy years. ^{25 (102:26)} In olden times didst thou lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ^{26 (102:27)} These will indeed perish, but thou wilt ever exist: yea, all of them will wear out like a garment; as a vesture wilt thou change them, and they will be changed; ^{27 (102:28)} But thou art ever the same, and thy years will have no end. ^{28 (102:29)} The children of thy servants will dwell securely, and their seed will be firmly established before thee.

¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

¹ Thus were finished the heavens and the earth, and all their host.

¹⁰ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet; until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

²³ And it came to pass in this long time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their complaint came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

²³ And it came to pass in this long time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their complaint came up unto God by reason of the bondage. ²⁴ And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵ And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.

⁷ And the Lord said, I have truly seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard its cry by reason of its taskmasters; yea, I know its sorrows;

¹⁴ And God said unto Moses, I will be that I will be: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I will be hath sent me unto you. ¹⁵ And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Everlasting One, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

¹⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens.

¹¹ For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

²⁹ But thou wilt seek from there the Lord thy God, and wilt find him, if thou apply to him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

¹⁵ Look down from the habitation of thy holiness, from the heavens, and bless thy people Israel, and the soil which thou hast given unto us, as thou hast sworn unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt be in dread day and night, and thou shalt have no confidence of thy life; ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only evening! and at evening thou wilt say, Who would but grant that it were only morning! from the dread of thy heart which thou wilt experience, and from the sight of thy eyes which thou wilt see.

¹⁹ Now therefore write ye for yourselves this song, and teach it the children of Israel, put it in their mouth; in order that this song may become for me a witness against the children of Israel. ²⁰ For when I shall have brought them into the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat: then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. ²¹ And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their inclination which they have shown, even this day, before I have brought them into the land which I have sworn. ²² And Moses wrote down this song on the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. ²³ And he gave a charge unto Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I have sworn unto them; and I will be with thee. ²⁴ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, ²⁵ That Moses commanded the Levites, the bearers of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, ²⁶ Take this book of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there against thee for a witness. ²⁷ For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, have ye been rebellious against the Lord, and how much more after my death? ²⁸ Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers; and I will speak in their ears these words, and I will call as witnesses against them the heavens and the earth. ²⁹ For I know that after my death ye will to a surety become corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and that the evil will befall you in the latter days, when ye do the evil in the eyes of the Lord, to incense him through the work of your hands. ³⁰ And Moses spoke in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

³⁶ For the Lord will espouse the cause of his people, and bethink himself concerning his servants: when he seeth that their power is gone, and the guarded and fortified axe no more.

²⁷ Thy refuge is the eternal God, and here beneath, the everlasting arms; and he thrust out the enemy from before thee; and he said, Destroy.

¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from their midst, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the trouble of Israel.

⁷ And he did so year by year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, so did she provoke her; wherefore she wept, and did not eat. ⁸ Then said to her Elkanah her husband, Hannah, why wilt thou weep? and why wilt thou not eat? and why should thy heart be grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

¹⁵ And Hannah answered and said, No, my Lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; but neither wine nor strong drink have I drunk, and I have poured out my soul before the Lord. ¹⁶ Esteem not thy handmaid as a worthless woman; for out of the abundance of my grief and vexation have I spoken hitherto.

⁷ The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich: he bringeth low and also lifteth up. ⁸ He raiseth up out of the dust the poor, from the dunghill he lifteth up the needy, to set them among nobles, and he assigneth them the throne of glory; for the Lord’s are the pillars of the earth, on which he hath set the world.

¹⁶ About this time tomorrow will I send unto thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him as chief over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have beheld my people, because their cry is come unto me.

¹⁷ And the elders of the house arose about him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he did not partake of any bread with them.

³⁹ Then do thou hear in heaven the place of thy dwelling, and forgive, and act, and give to every man in accordance with all his ways, as thou mayest know his heart; for thou, thyself alone, knowest the heart of all the children of men;

⁴³ Mayest thou listen in heaven the place of thy dwelling, and do according to all that the stranger will call on thee for; in order that all the nations of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may understand that this house, which I have built, is called by thy name.

⁴ And Jehoachaz besought the Lord; and the Lord hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

²² But Chazael the king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoachaz. ²³ And the Lord became gracious unto them, and had mercy on them, and turned his regard unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he cast them not off from his presence even until now.

⁹ For as regardeth the Lord, his eyes roam throughout the whole earth, to hold strongly with those whose heart is entire toward him: thou hast done foolishly for this reason; because from this time forth there will be wars with thee.

⁸ But if thou wilt go, and be ever so active and strong for the battle: God will cause thee to stumble before the enemy; for there is power with God to help, and to cause to stumble.

²⁷ Then arose the priests the Levites and blessed the people: and their voice was listened to, and their prayer came to His holy dwelling-place, even unto heaven.

¹¹ Wherefore the Lord brought over them the captains of the army belonging to the king of Assyria: and they took Menasseh prisoner with chains, and bound him with fetters, and led him off to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in distress, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed unto him, and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, unto his kingdom. Then did Menasseh feel conscious that the Lord is indeed the true God.

¹ And in the first year of Cyrus the king of Persia, at the time the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah was accomplished, the Lord awakened the spirit of Cyrus the king of Persia; and he caused a proclamation to be made throughout all his kingdom, and also by means of writing, saying, ² Thus hath said Cyrus the king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord the God of heaven given unto me; and he hath directed me to build for him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. ³ Whoever among you that is of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord the God of Israel, he is the God who is in Jerusalem. ⁴ And whosoever remaineth out of any place where he hath sojourned, him shall the men of his place assist with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem. ⁵ Then rose up the chiefs of the divisions of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all those whose spirit God had awakened, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

⁵ Then rose up the chiefs of the divisions of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all those whose spirit God had awakened, to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. ⁶ And all those that were round about them supplied them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered. ⁷ Also king Cyrus brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought away out of Jerusalem, and had placed in the house of his god: ⁸ Even these did Cyrus the king of Persia bring forth through the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and counted them out unto Sheshbazzar the prince for Judah. ⁹ And this is their number: Thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives, ¹⁰ Thirty cups of gold, silver cups of a second degree four hundred and ten, other vessels a thousand. ¹¹ All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with the exiles that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

¹ And when the seventh month drew near, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. ² Then arose Jeshua’ the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel, and his brethren, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer thereon burnt-offerings, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. ³ And they erected the altar upon its foundations; for there was fear upon them because of the people of these countries; and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the Lord, burnt-offerings at morning and at evening.

²⁷ Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put the like of this in the heart of the king, to glorify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

⁶ Then arose ‘Ezra from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jochanan the son of Elyashib; and he went thither without having eaten bread, or having drunk water; for he was mourning because of the trespass of the exiles.

³ And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great misery and in disgrace; and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and her gates are burnt with fire.

⁶ Let thy ear now be attentive, and thy eyes be open, I entreat thee, to hearken unto the prayer of thy servant, which I am praying this day before thee, by day and by night, in behalf of the children of Israel thy servants, and as I confess for the sins of the children of Israel, with which we have sinned against thee: yea, I also and my father’s house have sinned.

¹¹ I beseech thee, O Lord, do let thy ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who are desirous to fear thy name; and grant success, I pray thee, to thy servant this day, and let him find mercy in the sight of this man—But I was butler by the king.

³ And I said unto the king, May the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth ruined, and her gates are consumed by fire?

¹⁷ Then said I unto them, Ye see the misery in which we are, how Jerusalem lieth in ruins, and its gates are burnt with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no more be for a reproach.

^{2 (3:34)} And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will people suffer them to build? will they sacrifice? will they complete it in one day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, seeing that they have been burnt?

^{6 (3:38)} But we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together up to the half thereof; for the people had a heart to work.

^{10 (4:4)} And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of the burden is failing, and there is much rubbish; and we are not able to build on the wall.

²⁴ For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

¹³ For should I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help me bear my complaint: ¹⁴ Then wouldst thou frighten me with dreams, and with visions wouldst thou terrify me; ¹⁵ So that my soul would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine. ¹⁶ I loathe it; I cannot live for ever: let me alone; for my days are but nought.

²¹ And why wilt thou not forgive my transgression, and let my iniquity pass away? for soon must I lie down in the dust; and thou wilt seek for me, but I shall be no more.

¹ My soul is disgusted with my life; I will give free vent to my complaint over myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² Like a flower he cometh forth, and is cut down: and he fleeth like a shadow, and remaineth not.

²⁰ To my skin and to my flesh my bones do cleave, and I must sustain myself with the gums of my teeth.

²³ Oh who would but grant, that my words might be written down! oh who would grant that they were entered in a book! ²⁴ That they were hewn with an iron pen and blackened with lead for eternity in the hard rock!

²¹ For what care hath he for his household after him, when the number of his months is all apportioned to him?

¹² Is not God in the height of heaven? and beholding the highest elevation of the stars, however high they are?

¹² Out of a populous city is groaning heard, and the soul of the deadly wounded crieth out: yet God regardeth it not as an offence.

²⁹ I am a brother to howling monsters, and a companion to ostriches. ³⁰ My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.

³⁰ My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.

²⁰ So that his inclination abhorreth bread, and his soul, the most agreeable food.

²⁹ When he now granteth rest, who will condemn him! and when he hideth his face, who can behold him? whether it be against a nation, or against one man, it is the same:

²⁶ Behold, God is great, and we comprehend him not, the number of his years can truly not be searched out.

⁴ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? tell it, if thou hast any understanding of it. ⁵ Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her? ⁶ Upon what are her foundation-pillars placed at rest? or who laid her corner-stone: ⁷ When altogether sang the morning stars in gladness, and shouted for joy all the sons of God?

¹ Wherefore do nations rage, and people meditate a vain thing?

^{2 (5:3)} Listen unto the voice of my loud cry, my King, and my God, when unto thee I pray.

^{2 (6:3)} Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for I am withering away; heal me, O Lord; for my bones are terrified. ^{3 (6:4)} And my soul is greatly terrified; but thou, O Lord, how long yet—?

^{6 (6:7)} I am weary with my sighing; I flood every night my bed; With my tears I moisten my couch.

^{8 (6:9)} Depart from me, all ye workers of wickedness; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

^{6 (7:7)} Arise, O Lord, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

^{7 (9:8)} But the Lord will sit enthroned for ever: he hath established for giving judgment his throne.

^{13 (9:14)} Be gracious unto me, O Lord; have regard to my affliction coming from those that hate me, thou who liftest me up from the gates of death: ^{14 (9:15)} In order that I may relate all thy praises in the gates of the daughters of Zion: I will be glad in thy salvation.

^{18 (9:19)} For not everlastingly shall the needy be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

^{5 (12:6)} Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord: I will grant safety to him for whom the other layeth a snare.

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(13:2) How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me continually! how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

² The Lord looketh down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be one intelligent, one who seeketh for God.

^{6 (18:7)} When in my distress I called upon the Lord, and unto my God I cried: he heard from his temple my voice, and my complaint came before him, even into his ears.

^{2 (22:3)} O my God! I call in the day-time, but thou answerest not; and in the night I find no rest.

^{14 (22:15)} Like water am I poured out, and all my bones are disjointed: my heart is become like wax, it is melted in the midst of my entrails. ^{15 (22:16)} Like a potsherd is my strength dried up; and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and into the dust of death hast thou laid me down.

^{19 (22:20)} But thou, O Lord, be not far from me: O thou who art my strength, hasten to my aid.

^{22 (22:23)} I will relate thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

^{24 (22:25)} For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the poor; neither hath he hidden his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

^{27 (22:28)} All the ends of the world shall remember and return unto the Lord: and all the families of the nations shall bow themselves down before thee.

^{30 (22:31)} Distant ages shall serve him; there shall be related of the Lord unto future generations. ^{31 (22:32)} They will come, and will tell his righteousness unto a people yet unborn, that he hath done this.

⁹ Hide then not thy face from me; reject not in anger thy servant, thou who hast been my help: cast me not off, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

^{6 (30:7)} And I had said indeed in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ^{7 (30:8)} Lord, by thy favor hadst thou caused my mountain to stand in strength: thou didst hide thy face, and I was terrified.

^{2 (31:3)} Bend unto me thy ear; speedily deliver me: be thou unto me as a rock of protection, as a mountain strong-hold to save me.

^{10 (31:11)} For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing, my strength faileth because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed. ^{11 (31:12)} Because of all my assailants am I become a reproach, and unto my neighbors greatly so, and a terror to my acquaintance, those that see me abroad flee away from me. ^{12 (31:13)} I am forgotten as a dead man out of the heart: I am become like a perishable vessel. ^{13 (31:14)} For I have heard the slandering of many; terror was on every side, while they took counsel together against me: to take away my life did they purpose.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day. ⁴ For by day and night lay thy hand heavily upon me: my life’s moisture hath been changed through the droughts of summer. Selah.

¹³ The Lord looketh from heaven; he seeth all the sons of men. ¹⁴ From the place of his habitation he directeth his view upon all the inhabitants of the earth;

² For like the grass they shall soon be mowed down, and like the green herb shall they wither.

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the beauty of the meadow: they pass away; in smoke they pass away.

^{3 (38:4)} There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation: there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

^{8 (38:9)} I am made faint and crushed to the utmost; I cry aloud because of the groaning of my heart. ^{9 (38:10)} Lord, before thee is all my longing; and my sighing is from thee not hidden. ^{10 (38:11)} My heart is restless, my strength hath left me; and the light of my eyes—that also is no more with me. ^{11 (38:12)} My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

^{18 (38:19)} For I will tell of my iniquity; I will be grieved because of my sin.

^{5 (39:6)} Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. Selah. ^{6 (39:7)} As nothing but a shadowy image doth man walk about, yea, for vanity only do all make a noise: he heapeth up his gains, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

^{11 (39:12)} When thou with corrections chastisest man for iniquity, thou causest his excellence to melt away as if eaten by the moth: yea, nothing but vanity is every man. Selah. ^{12 (39:13)} Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears; for a stranger am I with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers. ^{13 (39:14)} Leave off from me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and am no more.

^{13 (40:14)} Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, hasten to my help.

¹ To the chief musician, a psalm of David. ^(41:2) Happy is he that careth for the poor: on the day of evil will the Lord deliver him. ^{2 (41:3)} The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy on the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the revengeful desire of his enemies.

^{3 (42:4)} My tears have been my food day and night; because men say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? ^{4 (42:5)} These things will I remember, and pour out my soul in me: how I was wont to pass along amidst the multitude, journeying with them as a pilgrim to the house of God, with the voice of joyful song and thanksgiving, among the festive throng.

^{6 (42:7)} O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and from the peaks of Chermon, from the low mount.

^{26 (44:27)} Arise unto our help, and redeem us for the sake of thy kindness.

^{16 (45:17)} Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children: thou wilt appoint them as princes in all the land. ^{17 (45:18)} I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

^{13 (48:14)} Direct your mind to her outer wall, mark carefully her palaces: in order that ye may tell it to the latest generation.

^{14 (51:16)} Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; that my tongue may sing aloud of thy righteousness. ^{15 (51:17)} O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

^{18 (51:20)} Do good in thy favor unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

¹ To the chief musician on Neginoth, a Maskil of David. ^(55:2) Give ear, O God, to my prayer, and hide not thyself from my supplication. ^{2 (55:3)} Listen unto me, and answer me: I mourn in my grief, and moan; ^{3 (55:4)} Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast wrong upon me, and in wrath they attack me.

^{3 (55:4)} Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast wrong upon me, and in wrath they attack me. ^{4 (55:5)} My heart is sorely pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. ^{5 (55:6)} Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and shuddering hath covered me.

¹ To the chief musician, Al-tashcheth, by David, a Michtham, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. ^(57:2) Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me; for in thee my soul seeketh protection, and under the shadow of thy wings will I seek protection, until the mischief be passed away. ^{2 (57:3)} I will call unto God, the Most High; unto God that accomplisheth his kindness on me. ^{3 (57:4)} He will send from heaven, and save me, though he that longeth to swallow me up utter reproach. Selah. God will send forth his kindness and his truth.

^{2 (61:3)} From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is too high for me.

^{8 (62:9)} Trust in him at all times, O ye people; pour out before him your heart: God is a protection for us. Selah.

^{2 (67:3)} That upon earth men may know thy way, among all nations thy salvation. ^{3 (67:4)} The people will thank thee, O God; the people, all of them together, will thank thee. ^{4 (67:5)} Nations will rejoice and sing for joy: when thou judgest the people righteously, and guidest the nations upon earth. Selah.

^{31 (68:32)} Nobles will come out of Egypt: Ethiopia will stretch forth eagerly her hands unto God. ^{32 (68:33)} Kingdoms of the earth, sing unto God; sing praises unto the Lord: Selah;

¹ To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, by David. ^(69:2) Save me, O God; for the waters are come even to threaten my life. ^{2 (69:3)} I am sunk in the mire of the deep, where there is no standing; I am come into the depths of the waters, and the flood overfloweth me.

^{9 (69:10)} Because the zeal for thy house hath devoured me; and the reproaches of those that reproached thee are fallen upon me. ^{10 (69:11)} When I wept at the fasting of my soul, it became a reproach to me.

^{17 (69:18)} And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress: make haste and answer me.

^{20 (69:21)} Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sick; and I waited for pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. ^{21 (69:22)} And they put into my food gall; and in my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

^{23 (69:24)} May their eyes become dark, that they cannot see; and make their loins continually to waver.

^{35 (69:36)} For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may abide there, and have it in possession:

^{35 (69:36)} For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may abide there, and have it in possession: ^{36 (69:37)} And the seed of his servants shall inherit it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

¹ To the chief musician, by David, to bring to remembrance. ^(70:2) O God, arise to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me.

² In thy righteousness do thou deliver me and release me: incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

¹⁸ Therefore also even in old age, and when I am grayheaded, O God, forsake me not: until I have told of thy strength unto this generation, to every one that may come of thy might.

⁸ And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. ⁹ Before him shall bend down those that dwell in the wilderness; and his enemies shall lick the dust. ¹⁰ The kings of Tharshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. ¹¹ Yea, there shall bow down before him all kings: all nations shall serve him.

¹¹ Yea, there shall bow down before him all kings: all nations shall serve him. ¹² For he will deliver the needy when he crieth; the afflicted also, who hath no helper.

¹⁸ Surely thou placest them on slippery spots: thou lettest them fall down into destruction. ¹⁹ How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they perish, they come to their end with terrific events. ²⁰ As a dream after awaking, O Lord, reject thou in wrath their image.

^{2 (75:3)} “For I will take up a fixed time when I will judge uprightly.

^{3 (77:4)} I think of God, and moan: I reflect, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. ^{4 (77:5)} Thou holdest my eyes awake: I am troubled and I cannot speak.

⁴ We will not conceal them from their children, relating to the latest generation the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful deeds which he hath done. ⁵ Yea, he established a testimony in Jacob, and instituted a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: ⁶ In order that the latest generation might know them, even the children that are to be born; that they may arise and relate them to their children;

¹ A psalm of Assaph. O God! nations have entered into thy heritage; they have profaned thy holy temple; they have rendered Jerusalem heaps of ruins.

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place. ⁸ Oh remember not against us the iniquities of our fathers: make haste, let thy mercies come to our aid; for we are very miserable. ⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, because of the glory of thy name; and deliver us, and atone for our sins, for the sake of thy name. ¹⁰ Wherefore shall the nations say, Where is their God? let there be made known among the nations before our eyes, the vengeance for the blood of thy servants which hath been shed. ¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: according to the greatness of thy almighty power preserve thou those that are doomed to death;

¹³ But we thy people and the flock of thy pasture will give thanks unto thee for ever: from generation to generation will we relate thy praise.

^{5 (80:6)} Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

⁹ All the nations whom thou hast made shall come and bow themselves down before thee, O Lord; and they shall ascribe honor unto thy name.

^{2 (88:3)} Let my prayer come unto thy presence; incline thy ear unto my entreaty. ^{3 (88:4)} For my soul is sated with troubles; and my life draweth nigh unto the nether world. ^{4 (88:5)} I am counted with those that descend into the pit; I am become as a man without vigor: ^{5 (88:6)} Free among the dead, like the slain that dwell in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more; and those that are cut off by thy hand. ^{6 (88:7)} Thou hast laid me in the pit of the lower world, in darkness, in the depths. ^{7 (88:8)} Upon me lieth heavily thy fury, and with all thy billows hast thou afflicted me. Selah. ^{8 (88:9)} Thou hast removed my acquaintances far from me; thou hast rendered me an abomination unto them: I am imprisoned, and I cannot go forth. ^{9 (88:10)} My eye languisheth by reason of affliction: I call on thee, O Lord, every day, I stretch out unto thee my hands. ^{10 (88:11)} Wilt thou display wonders to the dead? shall the departed arise and thank thee? Selah. ^{11 (88:12)} Shall thy kindness be related in the grave? thy faithfulness in the place of corruption? ^{12 (88:13)} Shall thy wonders be acknowledged in the darkness? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? ^{13 (88:14)} Yet I cry indeed aloud unto thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. ^{14 (88:15)} Why, O Lord, wilt thou cast off my soul? why wilt thou hide thy face from me? ^{15 (88:16)} I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, I am distracted. ^{16 (88:17)} Over me have the fires of thy wrath passed; thy terrors have destroyed me; ^{17 (88:18)} They encompass me like water all the time; they have closed in round about me together. ^{18 (88:19)} Thou hast removed far from me lover and friend, my acquaintances are in darkness.

^{4 (89:5)} Unto eternity will I establish thy seed, and I will build up thy throne, from generation to generation.” Selah.

^{38 (89:39)} And yet thou hast east off and despised, thou hast become wroth with thy anointed. ^{39 (89:40)} Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned, down to the ground, his crown. ^{40 (89:41)} Thou hast broken down all his fences: thou hast brought his strong-holds to terror. ^{41 (89:42)} All that pass by the way plunder him: he is become a reproach to his neighbors. ^{42 (89:43)} Thou hast raised up the right hand of his assailants: thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice. ^{43 (89:44)} Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not let him stand erect in the battle. ^{44 (89:45)} Thou hast made his brilliancy cease; and his throne hast thou thrown down to the ground. ^{45 (89:46)} Thou hast shortened the days of his youth: thou hast enshrouded him with shame. Selah. ^{46 (89:47)} How long, Lord, wilt thou hide thyself, continually? how long shall thy fury burn like fire? ^{47 (89:48)} Remember what I am, what my duration is here, for what nothingness thou hast created all sons of men!

^{51 (89:52)} That thy enemies have defied, O Lord; that they have defied the footsteps of thy anointed.

¹ BOOK FOURTH: A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, a place of refuge hast thou been unto us in all generations. ² Before yet the mountains were brought forth, or thou hadst ever produced the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

⁴ For a thousand years are in thy eyes but as the yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁷ For thus are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our concealed sins before the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.

¹⁶ Let thy act be visible on thy servants, and thy majesty over their children. ¹⁷ And may the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and the work of our hands do thou firmly establish upon us: yea, the work of our hands—firmly establish thou it.

⁵ For all the gods of the nations are idols; but the Lord hath made the heavens.

⁶ The heavens tell of his righteousness, and all the people his glory.

^{3 (102:4)} For my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are burning like a hearth. ^{4 (102:5)} Struck by heat like the herb and dried up is my heart; for I forget to eat my bread.

^{9 (102:10)} For ashes do I eat like bread, and my drink I mingle with weeping;

^{11 (102:12)} My days are like a shadow that declineth; and like the herb I wither. ^{12 (102:13)} But thou, O Lord, wilt sit enthroned for ever; and thy memorial is unto all generations.

^{24 (102:25)} I will say, O my God! take me not away in the midst of my days: throughout all generations are thy years. ^{25 (102:26)} In olden times didst thou lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ^{26 (102:27)} These will indeed perish, but thou wilt ever exist: yea, all of them will wear out like a garment; as a vesture wilt thou change them, and they will be changed; ^{27 (102:28)} But thou art ever the same, and thy years will have no end.

²⁹ Thou hidest thy face, they suddenly vanish: thou takest away their spirit, they perish, and to their dust they return.

²³ Like the shadow when it declineth do I hasten away: I am driven suddenly off like the locusts.

⁸³ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke: yet do I not forget thy statutes.

¹ A song of the degrees. Out of the depths have I called thee, O Lord. ² Lord, listen to my voice: let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

⁶ My soul waiteth for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morning expect the morning.

¹³ O Lord, thy name endureth for ever: O Lord, thy memorial is throughout all generations.

⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget—. ⁶ May my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember thee: if I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my joy.

⁴ All the kings of the earth will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, when they hear the promises of thy mouth.

^{2 (142:3)} I pour out before him my grief: my distress I recite before him. ^{3 (142:4)} When my spirit was overwhelmed within me—and thou knowest well my path—on the way whereon I desired to walk they had secretly laid a snare for me.

³ For the enemy hath pursued my soul; he hath crushed to the ground my life; he hath made me dwell in darkness, as those that are dead eternally. ⁴ And my spirit within me is overwhelmed: in my bosom is my heart astounded.

⁴ And my spirit within me is overwhelmed: in my bosom is my heart astounded.

⁷ Hasten, answer me, O Lord, my spirit falleth: hide not thy face from me, that I may not become like those that go down into the pit.

⁴ Man is like the breath: his days are like a passing shadow.

¹⁹ The desire of those who fear him will he fulfill, and their cry will he hear, and save them.

⁷ Who executeth justice for the oppressed: who giveth bread to the hungry: the Lord looseneth the prisoners;

² The Lord buildeth up Jerusalem: the outcasts of Israel will he gather together;

⁶ The Lord helpeth up the meek: he bringeth down the wicked to the ground.

²³ From eternity was I appointed chief, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. ²⁴ When there were yet no depths, was I brought forth; when there were yet no springs laden heavily with water. ²⁵ Before the mountains were yet sunk down, before the hills was I brought forth: ²⁶ While as yet he had not made the land and open fields, nor the chief of the dust of the world. ²⁷ When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle over the face of the deep; ²⁸ When he fastened the skies above; when the springs of the deep became strong; ²⁹ When he assigned to the sea his decree, that the waters should not transgress his order: when he established firmly the foundations of the earth: ³⁰ Then was I near him, as a nursling: and I was day by day his delights, playing before him at all times; ³¹ Playing in the world, his earth; and having my delights with the sons of men. ³² And now, O children of men, hearken unto me! for happy those that observe my ways. ³³ Hear correction, and be wise, and reject it not. ³⁴ Happy is the man that hearkeneth unto me, watching day by day at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. ³⁵ For he who findeth me findeth life, and he obtaineth favor from the Lord. ³⁶ But he that sinneth against me doth violence to his own soul: all those that hate me love death.

²² A merry heart causeth a healthy appearance of the countenance, but a depressed spirit drieth up the bones.

¹² For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, the number of the days of his vain life, that he should spend them as a shadow? for who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

² And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be firmly established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and unto it shall flow all the nations. ³ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

¹⁷ And I will wait for the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope for him.

¹⁷ That rendered the world as a wilderness, and pulled down its cities: never opened the prison-house of his prisoners?”

²⁶ This is the resolve that is resolved over all the earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

³² And what will each one of the messengers of the nation answer? That the Lord hath founded Zion; and that therein shall find protection the poor of his people.

⁴ And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a book: and all their host shall wither, as the leaf withereth from the vine, and as withering fruit from the fig-tree.

¹¹ But pelican and hedgehog shall take possession of it; night-owl also and raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out over it the line of destruction, and the weights of desolation. ¹² Their nobles—no one is there they could call to the kingdom, and all its princes shall be no more. ¹³ And thorns shall spring up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of monsters, and a court for ostriches. ¹⁴ And the martens shall meet with the jackals, and one goat shall call to his fellow; only the screech-owl shall rest there, and find for herself a place of repose. ¹⁵ There shall nestle the arrow-snake, and lay eggs, and hatch, and gather its young under its shadow: only vultures shall assemble there, every one with her mate.

¹⁰ I had said, In the midst of my days, must I enter the gates of the nether world; I am deprived of the residue of my years. ¹¹ I had said, I shall not see the Lord, the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall not behold man any more among the inhabitants of the regions of death. ¹² My dwelling is broken down, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off, like a weaver, my life; with pining sickness will he snatch me away: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me. ¹³ I waited with patience till morning, whether as a lion, so would he break all my bones: from day until night wilt thou make an end of me. ¹⁴ Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chirp; I did moan like a dove; my eyes were lifted up on high: O Lord, I am oppressed; grant me ease.

¹⁴ Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chirp; I did moan like a dove; my eyes were lifted up on high: O Lord, I am oppressed; grant me ease. ¹⁵ What shall I speak? he hath promised it unto me, and he hath also accomplished it; I will make pilgrimages to God’s house all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶ O Lord, by these things men will live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou give me health, and cause me to live. ¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins. ¹⁸ For the nether world will not thank thee, death will not praise thee: they that go down into the pit will not hope for thy truth. ¹⁹ The living, the living alone shall thank thee, like me this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. ²⁰ The Lord is there to help me; therefore we will play my hymns all the days of our life in the house of the Lord. ²¹ And Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the inflammation, and he shall recover. ²² And Hezekiah had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

² Speak ye comfort to the heart of Jerusalem, and call out unto her, that her time of sorrow is accomplished, that her iniquity is atoned for; for she hath received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

⁶ A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field: ⁷ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the Lord hath blown upon it; surely the people is grass.

⁷ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the Lord hath blown upon it; surely the people is grass. ⁸ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God will stand firm for ever.

² Whenever thou passest through the waters, I am with thee; and through the rivers,—they shall not overflow thee: whenever thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be scorched; neither shall the flame burn on thee.

⁷ Every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory; whom I have formed; yea, whom I have made.

²¹ This people which I have formed for myself; my praise shall they relate.

⁶ Thus hath said the Lord, the king of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no god.

²⁰ He pursueth ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, and will not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

²² Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I will lift up to the nations my hand, and to the people will I raise up high my standard; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon shoulders. ²³ And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers; with the face toward the earth shall they bow down to thee, and the dust of thy feet shall they lick up: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, who will not suffer those who hope in me to be ashamed.

⁶ Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wear out like a garment, and they that dwell thereon shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall exist for ever, and my righteousness shall not be delayed.

¹¹ And so shall the ransomed of the Lord return, and come to Zion with song, with everlasting joy upon their head; gladness and joy shall they obtain, while sorrow and sighing shall have fled away.

¹⁰ But the Lord was pleased to crush him through disease: when now his soul hath brought the trespass-offering, then shall he see his seed, live many days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

⁵ Behold, a nation thou knowest not shalt thou call, and a nation that knew thee not shall run unto thee; for the sake of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.

²⁰ But unto Zion shall come the redeemer, and unto those who return from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. ²¹ And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy children, nor out of the mouth of thy children’s children, saith the Lord, from henceforth and unto all eternity.

¹ Arise, give light, for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is shining forth over thee.

¹ Arise, give light, for thy light is come; and the glory of the Lord is shining forth over thee. ² For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and a gross darkness the people; but over thee will shine forth the Lord, and his glory will be seen over thee. ³ And nations shall walk by thy light, and kings by the brightness of thy shining. ⁴ Lift up thy eyes round about and see, they all are assembled, they come to thee, thy sons are coming from afar, and thy daughters are brought along in arms. ⁵ Then wilt thou see and be filled with light, and thy heart will dread and be enlarged; because unto thee shall be turned the abundance of the sea, the riches of nations shall come unto thee. ⁶ The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and ‘Ephah; they all from Sheba shall come: gold and frankincense shall they carry, and the praises of the Lord shall they announce. ⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be assembled unto thee, the rams of Nebayoth shall minister unto thee: they shall come for a favorable acceptance unto me upon my altar, and the house of my glory will I glorify.

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be assembled unto thee, the rams of Nebayoth shall minister unto thee: they shall come for a favorable acceptance unto me upon my altar, and the house of my glory will I glorify. ⁸ Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like the doves, to their windows? ⁹ Yea, unto me the inhabitants of the isles shall hasten, and the ships of Tharshish at first, to bring thy sons from afar, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel; because he hath glorified thee. ¹⁰ And the sons of the stranger shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my wrath did I smite thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.

¹⁰ And the sons of the stranger shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my wrath did I smite thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee. ¹¹ And thy gates shall stand open continually, day and night shall they not be closed, to bring unto thee the wealth of nations, and their kings led captive.

¹¹ And thy gates shall stand open continually, day and night shall they not be closed, to bring unto thee the wealth of nations, and their kings led captive. ¹² For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and the nations shall be utterly destroyed.

¹² For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and the nations shall be utterly destroyed. ¹³ The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir, the cypress, and the box together, to adorn the place of my sanctuary, and the resting place of my feet will I glorify.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir, the cypress, and the box together, to adorn the place of my sanctuary, and the resting place of my feet will I glorify. ¹⁴ And then shall come unto thee bent down the sons of those who afflicted thee, and there shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet all thy revilers; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁴ And then shall come unto thee bent down the sons of those who afflicted thee, and there shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet all thy revilers; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, Zion of the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ Instead that thou wast forsaken and hated, without one to pass through thee, will I render thee an excellency of everlasting, a joy of all generations.

¹⁵ Instead that thou wast forsaken and hated, without one to pass through thee, will I render thee an excellency of everlasting, a joy of all generations. ¹⁶ And thou shalt suck the milk of nations, and the breast of kings shalt thou suck; and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. ¹⁷ Instead of the copper will I bring gold, and instead of the iron will I bring silver, and instead of wood copper, and instead of the stones iron; and I will set peace as thy authorities, and righteousness as thy taskmasters. ¹⁸ There shall not be heard any wore violence in thy land, wasting and destruction within thy boundaries; but thou shalt call, Salvation, thy walls, and thy gates, Praise. ¹⁹ The sun shall not be unto thee any more for a light by day, and for brightness shall the moon not give light unto thee; but the Lord will be unto thee for a light of everlasting, and thy God as thy glory. ²⁰ Thy sun shall not go down any more, and thy moon shall not be withdrawn; for the Lord will be unto thee for a light of everlasting, and ended shall be the days of thy mourning, ²¹ And thy people—they all will be righteous, for ever shall they possess the land, the sprout of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may glorify myself. ²² The little one shall become a thousand, and the small, a mighty nation: I the Lord will hasten it in its time.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Eternal is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to announce good tidings unto the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim to captives Liberty, and to prisoners Release; ² To proclaim a year of favor of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all mourners; ³ To grant unto the mourners of Zion,—to give unto them ornament in the place of ashes, oil of gladness in the place of mourning, garments of praise in the place of a grieved spirit; that they may be called, Oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

³ To grant unto the mourners of Zion,—to give unto them ornament in the place of ashes, oil of gladness in the place of mourning, garments of praise in the place of a grieved spirit; that they may be called, Oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

¹⁵ And ye shall leave behind your name for an oath unto my elect ones, when the Lord Eternal will slay thee; but his servants will he call by another name.

¹⁷ For, behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind;

¹⁷ For, behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind; ¹⁸ But be ye glad and rejoice unto all eternity in what I create; for, behold, I will create Jerusalem for rejoicing, and her people for gladness. ¹⁹ And I will rejoice over Jerusalem, and be glad in my people: and there shall not be heard in her any more the voice of weeping, nor the voice of complaint.

²² They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and the work of their hands shall my elect wear out.

²⁴ And it shall come to pass, that before yet they call will I answer; and while they are still speaking will I hear.

¹⁸ And I, because of their works and their thoughts, will let it come to pass to gather all the nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

²² For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall have permanence before me, saith the Lord, so shall exist permanently your seed and your name.

¹¹ For I alone know the thoughts that I entertain respecting you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a happy future and hope. ¹² And you will call upon me, and ye will go and will pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. ¹³ And ye will seek me, and shall find me, for ye will search for me with all your heart. ¹⁴ And I will be found of you, saith the Lord; and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will cause you to return unto the place whence I have banished you.

²² And a curse shall be derived from them for all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May the Lord make thee like Zedekiah and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;”

^{4 (31:3)} Yet again will I build thee up, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: yet again shalt thou adorn thy timbrels, and go forth in the dances of those that make merry.

^{10 (31:9)} Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and tell it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattereth Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd his flock. ^{11 (31:10)} For the Lord hath ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him out of the hand of one stronger than he. ^{12 (31:11)} And they shall come and sing on the height of Zion, and shall come together as a stream to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flocks and of the herds, and their soul shall be as a well-watered garden; and they shall not farther experience grief any more.

^{23 (31:22)} Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they say this word in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I will bring back again their captivity,—May the Lord bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, O holy mountain.

¹⁷ Ah Lord Eternal! behold, it is thou that hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thy outstretched arm; nothing is too wonderful for thee;

⁷ And I will cause to return the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel, and I will build them up, as at the first.

³² And that the passages have been seized, and that they have burnt the reeds with fire, and that the men of war are affrighted. ³³ For thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time they thresh therein; but yet a little while more, when the time of harvest shall come for her. ³⁴ “Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon devoured me, he crushed me, he set me down as an empty vessel, he swallowed me up like a huge serpent, he filled his belly with my delicacies: he drove me out. ³⁵ the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” will the inhabitress of Zion say; and “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” will Jerusalem say.

¹³ From on high hath he sent a fire into my bones, and breaketh them one by one: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath caused me to return backward; he hath made me desolate, sick all the day.

¹⁸ “Righteous is the Lord; for against his orders have I rebelled: oh do hear, all ye people, and see my pain! my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

⁴ He hath caused my flesh and my skin to wear out, he hath broken my bones.

⁸ Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer.

¹³ He hath caused to enter into my reins the children of his quiver.

¹⁵ He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. ¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

¹⁸ And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord. ¹⁹ Remembering my affliction and the cause of my complaint, wormwood and poison. ²⁰ Remembering this continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.

²⁰ Remembering this continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.

²⁸ That he sit in solitude and be silent; because He hath laid it upon him; ²⁹ That he put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there still is hope; ³⁰ That he offer his cheek to him that smiteth him; that he be satisfied with reproach.

³⁹ Wherefore should a living man complain? let every man complain because of his sins. ⁴⁰ Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. ⁴² We have indeed transgressed and rebelled: thou hast truly not pardoned.

⁴⁴ Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.

⁴⁸ With streams of water runneth my eye down, because of the breach of the daughter of my people. ⁴⁹ My eye trickleth down, and resteth not, without any intermission,

⁸ Darker than black is now their visage; they are not to be recognized in the streets: their skin is shriveled fast upon their bones; it is dry, it is become like wood.

¹⁶ Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.

¹⁹ O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.

² In the first year of his reign, I Daniel searched in the books for understanding concerning the number of the years whereof the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would let pass full seventy years over the ruins of Jerusalem.

² In the first year of his reign, I Daniel searched in the books for understanding concerning the number of the years whereof the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would let pass full seventy years over the ruins of Jerusalem. ³ And I directed my face unto the Lord God, to ask by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and in sackcloth, and ashes.

³ And I directed my face unto the Lord God, to ask by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and in sackcloth, and ashes. ⁴ And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keepeth the covenant and kindness to those that love him, and to those that keep his commandments:

⁴ And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and terrible God, who keepeth the covenant and kindness to those that love him, and to those that keep his commandments: ⁵ We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, and have departed from thy commandments and from thy ordinances;

⁵ We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, and have departed from thy commandments and from thy ordinances; ⁶ Nor have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

⁶ Nor have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us belongeth the shame of face, as it is this day,—to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, those that are near, and those that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against thee.

⁷ Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us belongeth the shame of face, as it is this day,—to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, those that are near, and those that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against thee. ⁸ O Lord, to us belongeth the shame of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers; because we have sinned against thee.

⁸ O Lord, to us belongeth the shame of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers; because we have sinned against thee.

⁸ O Lord, to us belongeth the shame of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers; because we have sinned against thee. ⁹ To the Lord our God belong mercies and pardonings; for we have rebelled against him;

⁹ To the Lord our God belong mercies and pardonings; for we have rebelled against him;

⁹ To the Lord our God belong mercies and pardonings; for we have rebelled against him; ¹⁰ And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through means of his servants the prophets.

¹⁰ And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through means of his servants the prophets.

¹⁰ And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us through means of his servants the prophets. ¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have departed so as not to obey thy voice: therefore was poured out over us the curse, with the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; because we had sinned against him.

¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have departed so as not to obey thy voice: therefore was poured out over us the curse, with the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; because we had sinned against him.

¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have departed so as not to obey thy voice: therefore was poured out over us the curse, with the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; because we had sinned against him. ¹² And he hath accomplished his words, which he had spoken concerning us, and concerning our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, which was never done under the whole heaven as it hath been done in Jerusalem.

¹² And he hath accomplished his words, which he had spoken concerning us, and concerning our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, which was never done under the whole heaven as it hath been done in Jerusalem.

¹² And he hath accomplished his words, which he had spoken concerning us, and concerning our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, which was never done under the whole heaven as it hath been done in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses; all this evil came over us: yet offered we not any entreaty before the Lord our God, to return from our iniquities, and to become intelligent in thy truth.

¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses; all this evil came over us: yet offered we not any entreaty before the Lord our God, to return from our iniquities, and to become intelligent in thy truth.

¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses; all this evil came over us: yet offered we not any entreaty before the Lord our God, to return from our iniquities, and to become intelligent in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore did the Lord watch over the evil, and he brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous because of all his deeds which he hath done; but we have not obeyed his voice.

¹⁴ Therefore did the Lord watch over the evil, and he brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous because of all his deeds which he hath done; but we have not obeyed his voice.

¹⁴ Therefore did the Lord watch over the evil, and he brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous because of all his deeds which he hath done; but we have not obeyed his voice. ¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thyself a great name, as it is this day: we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thyself a great name, as it is this day: we have sinned, we have done wickedly. ¹⁶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thy anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because through our sins, and through the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all who are round about us.

¹⁶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thy anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because through our sins, and through the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all who are round about us.

¹⁶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thy anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because through our sins, and through the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all who are round about us. ¹⁷ And now listen, O our God, to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary which is desolate, for the sake of the Lord.

¹⁷ And now listen, O our God, to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary which is desolate, for the sake of the Lord. ¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear; open thy eyes, and look on our desolations, and the city whereupon thy name is called: for not relying on our acts of righteousness do we present humbly our supplications before thee, but relying on thy great mercies.

¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear; open thy eyes, and look on our desolations, and the city whereupon thy name is called: for not relying on our acts of righteousness do we present humbly our supplications before thee, but relying on thy great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do it; delay it not; for thy own sake, O my God; for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do it; delay it not; for thy own sake, O my God; for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people. ²⁰ And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication humbly before the Lord my God because of the holy mountain of my God:

²⁰ And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication humbly before the Lord my God because of the holy mountain of my God: ²¹ Yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came, flying swiftly, near me about the time of the evening oblation.

²¹ Yea, while I was yet speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came, flying swiftly, near me about the time of the evening oblation. ²² And he gave me understanding, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, now am I come forth to make thee intelligent with understanding. ²³ At the beginning of thy supplications the word went forth, and I am come to tell it; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and have understanding of the appearance. ²⁴ Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close up the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy thing. ²⁵ Know therefore and comprehend, that from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the anointed the prince will be seven weeks: and during sixty and two weeks will it be again built with streets and ditches around it, even in the pressure of the times. ²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks will an anointed one be cut off without a successor to follow him: and the city and the sanctuary will the people of the prince that is coming destroy; but his end will come in a violent overthrow; but until the end of the war devastations are decreed against it. ²⁷ And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week; and in the half of the week will he cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and this because of the prevalence of the abominations which bringeth devastation, and until destruction and what is decreed shall be poured out upon the waster.

⁹ And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

¹² Happy is he that waiteth, and attaineth to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. ¹³ But thou, go thy way toward the end; and thou shalt rest, and arise again for thy lot at the end of the days.

⁹ Then said he, Call his name Lo-’ammi [Not my people]; for ye are not my people, and I will indeed not be unto you a God. ^{10 (2:1)} Yet shall the number of the children of Israel once be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that instead that people say of them, Ye are not my people [Lo-’ammi], shall they call them, The sons of the living God. ^{11 (2:2)} Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head, and they shall go up out of the land, for great shall be the day of Yizre’el.

⁸ For this will I lament and wail; I will go confused and naked: I will make a lament like the crocodiles, and mourning like the ostriches.

¹⁰ Tell it not at Gath, weep ye not loudly there: in Bethle’aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

⁹ The wives of my people do you drive out of their delightful houses; from their children do ye take away my ornament for ever.

¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like the serpent; like those that crawl on the earth, shall they come forth trembling out of their close places: unto the Lord our God shall they hasten in dread, and shall be afraid of thee.

¹² Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O Protector, thou hast appointed them to correct nations.

¹⁴ And there shall lie down in the midst of her flocks, all the beasts of the nations; both the pelican and the hedgehog shall lodge in the capitals of her columns; singing-birds shall sing in the windows; ruin shall be on the thresholds; for the cedar wainscoting shall be torn away.

¹² Then commenced the angel of the Lord, and said, O Lord of hosts, how long yet wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast been indignant these seventy years? ¹³ And the Lord answered the angel that spoke with me with good words and comforting words.

^{6 (2:10)} Up! up! and flee away from the land of the north saith the Lord; for as the four winds of the heaven have I spread you abroad, saith the Lord. ^{7 (2:11)} Up, Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon. ^{8 (2:12)} For thus hath said the Lord of hosts, For the sake of your glory hath he sent me unto the nations that have despoiled you; for whoever toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye. ^{9 (2:13)} For, behold, I will swing my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them: and ye shall acknowledge that the Lord of hosts hath sent me. ^{10 (2:14)} Sing, and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I am coming, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

^{10 (2:14)} Sing, and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I am coming, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. ^{11 (2:15)} And many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day, and they shall be unto me for a people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

^{11 (2:15)} And many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day, and they shall be unto me for a people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto thee. ^{12 (2:16)} And the Lord will take Judah as his inheritance upon the holy land; and he will again make choice of Jerusalem.

^{12 (2:16)} And the Lord will take Judah as his inheritance upon the holy land; and he will again make choice of Jerusalem. ^{13 (2:17)} Be silent, all flesh! before the Lord; for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.

²⁰ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, A time shall yet be when there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; ²¹ And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us only go to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I too will likewise go. ²² And many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. ²³ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, In those days it shall happen, that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold—yea, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, Let us go with you; for we have heard that God is with you.

⁹ Be greatly glad, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, thy King will come unto thee, righteous and victorious is he, lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of a she-ass. ¹⁰ And I will cut off chariots from Ephraim, and horses from Jerusalem, and there shall be cut off the battle-bow, and he shall speak peace unto the nations; and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. ¹¹ As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant, do I send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein there is no water. ¹² Return you to the strong-hold, ye hopeful prisoners: even today do I declare, that I will recompense twofold good unto thee.

⁶ For I the Lord,—I have not changed: and ye sons of Jacob—ye have not ceased to be.