Isaiah 1 Cross References - MSTC

¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw upon Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me. ³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his master's crib; but Israel knoweth nothing. My people hath no understanding. ⁴ Alas for this sinful nation, which are expert in blasphemies; a seed of ungracious people, corrupt in their ways. They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger, and are gone backward. ⁵ Wherefore should ye be plagued any more? For ye are ever falling away. The whole head is sick, and the heart is very heavy. ⁶ From the sole of the foot unto the head, there is no whole part in all your body: but all are wounds, botches, sores and stripes, which can neither be helped, bound up, mollified, nor eased with any ointment. ⁷ Your land lieth waste, your cities are burnt up, your enemies devour your land, and ye must be fain to stand, and look upon it: and it is desolate, as it were with enemies in a battle. ⁸ Moreover the daughter of Zion is left alone like a cottage in a vineyard, like a watch house in time of war, like a besieged city. ⁹ And except the LORD of Hosts had left us a few alive, we should have been as Sodom, and like unto Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, ye tyrants of Sodom, and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats. ¹² When ye appear before me, who requireth this of you to tread within my porches? ¹³ Offer me no more oblations, for it is but lost labour. I abhor your incense. I may not away with your new moons, your Sabbaths and solemn days. Your fastings are also in vain. ¹⁴ I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them! ¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well. ¹⁷ Study to do righteously, and help the oppressed. Avenge the fatherless and defend the cause of widows. Come, let us show each his grief to other and make an atonement, saith the LORD. ¹⁸ And so though your sins be like to purple, they shall be made as white as snow; and though they be as red as scarlet, they shall be made like white wool. ¹⁹ If ye will agree and hearken, ye shall eat the best of the land, saith the LORD God. ²⁰ But if ye be obstinate and rebellious, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for thus the LORD hath promised with his own mouth. ²¹ How happeneth it then that the righteous city, which was full of equity, is become unfaithful as an whore? Righteousness dwelt in it, but now murder. ²² Thy silver is turned to dross, and thy wine mixed with water. ²³ Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them. ²⁴ Therefore saith the LORD God of Hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah, I must ease me of mine enemies, and avenge me upon them. ²⁵ And therefore shall I lay my hand upon thee, and burn out thy dross from the finest and purest, and put out all thy lead, ²⁶ and set thy judges again as they were sometime, and thy Senators as they were from the beginning. Then shalt thou be called the righteous city, the faithful city. ²⁷ But Zion shall be redeemed with equity, and they shall turn again unto her in righteousness. ²⁸ For the transgressors and ungodly, and such as are become unfaithful unto the LORD, must altogether be utterly destroyed. ²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the gods that you longed for. And you shall be put to shame for the idols and grove gardens that ye have chosen. ³⁰ Ye shall be as an oak whose leaves are fallen away, and as a garden that hath no moistness. ³¹ And as for the glory of your graven images, it shall be turned to dry straw, and he that made them to a spark. And they shall both burn together, so that no man shall be able to quench them.

¹³ But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinned exceedingly against the LORD.

²⁶ And the LORD said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, I will spare all the place for their sakes."

³² And he said, "O let not my LORD be angry, that I speak yet, but even once more only. What if ten be found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy them for ten's sake."

²⁴ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven,

¹⁶ "The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, and the seventh also. There shall be no manner of work done in them, save about that only which every man must eat: that only may ye do.

⁸ Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹⁷ "Three times in a year shall all thy men children appear before the Lord Jehovah.

²³ Thrice in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel:

¹ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ² "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall call holy feasts. ³ Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, a holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for it is the Sabbath of the LORD, wheresoever ye dwell. ⁴ "'These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim holy in their seasons: ⁵ The fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD's Passover. ⁶ And the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of sweet bread unto the LORD; seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. ⁷ The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, so that ye may do no laborious work therein. ⁸ But ye shall offer sacrifices unto the LORD seven days, and the seventh day also shall be a holy feast, so that ye may do no laborious work therein.'" ⁹ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ¹⁰ "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'When ye be come into the land which I give unto you and reap down your harvest, ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest, ¹¹ and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD to be accepted for you: and even the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. ¹² And ye shall offer the day when he waveth the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a burnt offering unto the LORD: ¹³ and the meat offering thereof, two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil to be a sacrifice unto the LORD of a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereto, the fourth deal of a hin of wine. ¹⁴ And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor frumenty of new corn: until the self same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God. And this shall be a law forever unto your children after you, wheresoever ye dwell. ¹⁵ "'And ye shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath: even from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering, seven weeks complete: ¹⁶ even unto the morrow after the seventh week ye shall number fifty days. And then ye shall bring a new meat offering unto the LORD. ¹⁷ And ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves made of two tenth deals of fine flour, leavened and baken, for first fruits unto the LORD. ¹⁸ And ye shall bring with the bread seven lambs without deformity of one year of age, and one young ox, and two rams, which shall serve for burnt offerings unto the LORD, with meat offerings and drink offerings longing to the same, to be a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the LORD. ¹⁹ And ye shall offer a he goat for a sin offering: and two lambs of one year old for peace offerings. ²⁰ And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits before the LORD, and with the two lambs. And they shall be holy unto the LORD, and be the priest's. ²¹ And ye shall make a proclamation the same day that it be a holy feast unto you, and ye shall do no laborious work therein. And it shall be a law forever throughout all your habitations unto your children after you. ²² "'When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean riddance of thy field, neither shalt thou make any after gathering of thy harvest: but shalt leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the LORD your God.'" ²³ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, 'The first day of the seventh month shall be a rest of remembrance unto you, to blow horns in a holy feast it shall be, ²⁵ and ye shall do no laborious work therein, and ye shall offer sacrifice unto the LORD.'" ²⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ²⁷ "Also the tenth day of the self seventh month, is a day of atonement, and shall be a holy feast unto you, and ye shall humble your souls and offer sacrifice unto the LORD. ²⁸ Moreover ye shall do no work the same day, for it is a day of atonement to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. ²⁹ For whatsoever soul it be that humbleth not himself that day, he shall be destroyed from among his people. ³⁰ And whatsoever soul do any manner work that day, the same I will destroy from among his people. ³¹ See that ye do no manner work therefore. And it shall be a law forever unto your generations after you in all your dwellings. ³² A Sabbath of rest it shall be unto you, and ye shall humble your souls. The ninth day of the month at evening, and so forth from evening to evening again, ye shall keep your Sabbath." ³³ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ³⁴ "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, 'The fifteenth day of the same seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles, seven days unto the LORD. ³⁵ The first day shall be a holy feast, so that ye shall do no laborious work therein. ³⁶ Seven days ye shall offer sacrifice unto the LORD, and the eighth day shall be a holy feast unto you, and ye shall offer sacrifice unto the LORD. It is the end of the feast, and ye shall do no laborious work therein. ³⁷ "'These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim holy feasts, for to offer sacrifice unto the LORD, burnt offerings, meat offerings, and drink offerings every day: ³⁸ beside the Sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and all your vows, and all your freewill offerings which ye shall give unto the LORD. ³⁹ "'Moreover in the fifteenth day of the seventh month after that ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep holy day unto the LORD seven days long. The first day shall be a day of rest, and the eighth day shall be a day of rest. ⁴⁰ And ye shall take you the first day, the fruits of goodly trees and the branches of palm trees and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and shall rejoice before the LORD seven days. ⁴¹ And ye shall keep it holy day unto the LORD seven days in the year. And it shall be a law forever unto your children after you, that ye keep that feast in the seventh month. ⁴² And ye shall dwell in booths seven days: even all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths, ⁴³ that your children after you may know how that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: for I am the LORD your God.'" ⁴⁴ And Moses told all the feasts of the LORD unto the children of Israel.

³³ And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate. ³⁴ Then the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye in your enemies' land: even then shall the land keep holy day and rejoice in her Sabbaths.

³ But Moses was a very meek man, above all the men of the earth.

⁶ And he said, "Hear my words. If there be a prophet of the LORD's among you, I will show myself unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

¹⁵ And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the LORD, "Turn not unto their offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass from them, neither have vexed any of them."

¹⁹ The Lord God is not a man, that he can lie; neither the son of a man, that he can repent! Should he say, and not do? Or should he speak, and not make it good?

⁴ and the man whose eye is open hath said; he hath said, which heareth the words of God and seeth the visions of the almighty, which falleth down and his eyes are opened:

¹⁶ and he hath said, that heareth the words of God and hath the knowledge of the most high and beholdeth the vision of the almighty, and when he falleth down hath his eyes opened:

¹ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ² "Give the children of Israel a charge, and say unto them that they take heed to offer unto me the offering of my bread in the sacrifice of sweet savour, in his due season. ³ And say unto them, "This is the offering which ye shall offer unto the LORD: two lambs of a year old without spot, day by day, to be a burnt offering perpetually. ⁴ One lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and the other at even. ⁵ And thereto the tenth part of an Ephah of flour for a meat offering mingled with beaten oil, the fourth part of a hin: ⁶ which is a daily offering ordained in the mount Sinai unto a sweet savour in the sacrifice of the LORD. ⁷ And the drink offering of the same: the fourth part of a hin unto one lamb, and pour the drink offering in the holy place, to be good drink unto the LORD. ⁸ And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, with the meat offering and the drink offering after the manner of the morning: a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the LORD. ⁹ And on the Sabbath day, two lambs of a year old apiece and without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereto. ¹⁰ This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the daily burnt offering and his drink offering. ¹¹ And in the first day of your months, ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD: two young bullocks, and a ram, and seven lambs of a year old without spot, ¹² and three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil unto one bullock, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil unto one ram. ¹³ And evermore, a tenth deal of flour mingled with oil, for a meat offering unto one lamb. That is a burnt offering of a sweet savour in the sacrifice of the LORD. ¹⁴ And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine unto one bullock, and the third part of a hin of wine unto a ram and the fourth part of a hin unto a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout all the months of the year: ¹⁵ and one he-goat for a sin offering unto the LORD, which shall be offered with the daily burnt offering and his drink offering. ¹⁶ And the fourteenth day of the first month shall be Passover unto the LORD. ¹⁷ And the fifteenth day of the same month shall be a feast, in which seven days men must eat unleavened bread. ¹⁸ The first day shall be a holy feast, so that ye shall do no manner of laborious work therein. ¹⁹ And ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD, two bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old without spot, ²⁰ and their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto a bullock, and two tenth deals unto a ram, ²¹ and evermore one tenth deal unto a lamb, throughout the seven lambs: ²² and a he-goat for a sin offering to make an atonement for you. ²³ And ye shall offer these, beside the burnt offering in the morning that is always offered. ²⁴ And after this manner ye shall offer throughout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice of sweet favour unto the LORD. And it shall be done beside the daily burnt offering and his drink offering. ²⁵ And the seventh day shall be a holy feast unto you, so that ye shall do no laborious work therein. ²⁶ And the day of your first fruits when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD in your weeks, shall be a holy feast unto you: ²⁷ so that ye shall do no laborious work therein. And ye shall offer a burnt offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: two young bullocks, and a ram, and seven lambs of a year old apiece, ²⁸ with their meat offerings of flour mingled with oil three tenth deals unto a bullock two tenth deals to a ram, ²⁹ and evermore one tenth deal unto a lamb throughout the seven lambs,

¹⁴ "And behold, ye are risen up in your father's stead, the increase of sinful men, to augment the fierce wrath of the LORD to Israelward.

³¹ and in the wilderness: as thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee as a man should bear his son, throughout all the way which ye have gone, until ye came unto this place.'

⁷ For what nation is so great that hath gods so nigh unto him as the LORD our God is nigh unto us, in all things, when we call unto him? ⁸ Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day?

²⁶ I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed.

²² Also at Taberah and at Massah and at the sepulchres of lust ye angered the LORD. ²³ Yea, and when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and conquer the land which I have given you,' ye disobeyed the mouth of the LORD your God, and neither believed him nor hearkened unto his voice. ²⁴ Thus ye have been disobedient unto the LORD, since the day that I knew you.

¹ Observe the month of Abib, and offer Passover unto the LORD thy God. For in the month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night: ² Thou shalt therefore offer Passover unto the LORD thy God, and sheep and oxen in the place which the LORD shall choose to make his name dwell there. ³ Thou shalt eat no leavened bread therewith: but shalt eat therewith the bread of tribulation seven days long. For thou camest out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest out of the land of Egypt, all days of thy life. ⁴ And see that there be no leavened bread seen in all thy coasts seven days long, and that there remain nothing of the flesh which thou hast offered the first day at evening, until the morning. ⁵ Thou mayest not offer Passover in any of thy cities which the LORD thy God giveth thee: ⁶ But in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to make his name dwell in, there thou shalt offer Passover at evening about the going down of the sun, even in the season that thou camest out of Egypt. ⁷ And thou shalt seethe and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen, and depart on the morrow and get thee unto thy tent. ⁸ Six days thou shalt eat sweet bread, and the seventh day is for the people to come together to the LORD thy God, that thou mayest do no work. ⁹ Then reckon the seven weeks, and begin to reckon the seven weeks when the sickle beginneth in the corn, ¹⁰ and keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God, that thou give a freewill offering of thine hand unto the LORD thy God according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. ¹¹ And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there. ¹² And remember that thou was a servant in Egypt, that thou observe and do these ordinances. ¹³ Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days long, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine. ¹⁴ And thou shalt rejoice in that thy feast; both thou and thy son, thy daughter, thy servant, thy maid, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are in thy cities. ¹⁵ Seven days thou shalt keep holy day unto the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD shall choose: for the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy fruits and in all the works of thine hands, and thou shalt be all together gladness. ¹⁶ Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: In the feast of sweet bread, in the feast of weeks and in the feast of the tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

¹⁶ Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: In the feast of sweet bread, in the feast of weeks and in the feast of the tabernacles. And they shall not appear before the LORD empty: ¹⁷ but every man with the gift of his hand, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God, which he hath given thee. ¹⁸ Judges and officers thou shalt make thee in all thy cities, which the LORD thy God giveth thee throughout thy tribes: And let them judge the people righteously. ¹⁹ Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹⁹ Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous. ²⁰ But in all things follow righteousness, that thou mayest live and enjoy the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. ²¹ Thou shalt plant no grove, of whatsoever trees it be, nigh unto the altar of the LORD thy God which thou shalt make thee. ²² Thou shalt set thee up no pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth.

³³ The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation eat, which thou knowest not; and thou shalt but suffer violence only and be oppressed always,

⁴³ The strangers that are among you shall climb above thee up on high, and thou shalt come down beneath a-low.

⁴⁸ therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon thee: in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thine neck, until he have brought thee to nought. ⁴⁹ "And the LORD shall bring a nation upon thee from afar, even from the end of the world, as swift as an eagle flyeth: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; ⁵⁰ a hard-favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young. ⁵¹ And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattle until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought thee to nought. ⁵² And he shall keep thee in all thy cities, until thy high and strong walls be come down wherein thou trustedest, through all thy land. And he shall besiege thee in all thy cities throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

⁶³ "And as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you: even so he will rejoice over you, to destroy you and to bring you to nought. And ye shall be wasted from off the land whither thou goest to enjoy it.

²³ how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger.

²⁵ And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil: ¹⁶ in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his ordinances and his laws: that thou mayest live and multiply, and that the LORD thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

¹⁹ I take heaven and earth this day to record over you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. But choose life, that thou and thy seed may live;

¹⁶ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring after strange gods of the land whither they go and will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them.

¹ Hearken, o ye heavens; I will speak. And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters.

²⁸ "'For it is a nation that hath an unhappy forecast, and hath no understanding in them. ²⁹ I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'

³² But their vines are of the vines of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters be bitter.

⁴³ "Rejoice, heathen with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will avenge him of his adversaries, and will be merciful unto the land of his people."

¹⁰ Then the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee: for we have forsaken our own God, and have served Baalim."

¹⁴ And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him. And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire and the bands loosed from his hands.

² And see, your king walketh before you. But I am old and grayheaded: and behold my sons are with you and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. ³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again." ⁴ And they said, "Thou hast done us no wrong, nor oppressed us; neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand." ⁵ Then said he to them, "The LORD is witness unto you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have found nought in my hands." And they answered, "We are witnesses."

⁷ Now therefore stand still, and let me reason with you before the LORD, of all the righteousnesses of the LORD which he showed both you and your fathers.

²⁵ But and if ye shall do wickedly: then shall both ye and your king thereto perish."

²² Then said Samuel, "Hath the LORD as great pleasure in burnt sacrifices and offerings, as he hath that thou shouldest obey his voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to give heed is better than the fat of rams.

²⁹ And thereto he that giveth victory to Israel, will not beguile nor repent: for he is not a man, that can repent."

¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel and executed right and justice unto all his people.

²² And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the sight of all the congregation of Israel and stretched out his hands to heaven,

⁵⁴ And when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD and from kneeling on his knees and stretching of his hands up to heaven,

⁶ But and if ye and your children shall turn away from after me, and shall not keep mine ordinances which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods and bow yourselves unto them: ⁷ then I will weed Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have hallowed for my name, I will put out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a fable unto all nations. ⁸ And this house which is so high, all that pass by it shall be astonished and shall hiss and say, 'Why hath the LORD dealt on this manner with this land and with this house?' ⁹ And it shall be answered then, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God which brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods and have stooped unto him and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.'"

¹⁸ And thereto I have left me seven thousand in Israel, of which never man bowed his knees unto Baal nor kissed him with his mouth."

¹⁹ And Micaiah said, "Hear therefore the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sit on his seat and all his company of heaven standing about him, on his righthand and on his left. ²⁰ And the LORD said, 'Who shall deceive Ahab that he may go and be slain at Ramoth in Gilead?' And one said on this manner and another on that. ²¹ Then came forth a spirit and stood before the LORD and said, 'I will deceive him.' And the LORD said, 'Wherewith?' ²² And he said, 'I will go out and be a false spirit in the mouths of all Prophets.' And the LORD said, 'Thou shalt deceive him and also prevail, go forth and do even so.' ²³ Now therefore behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy Prophets: when in very deed the LORD hath spoken evil toward thee."

¹ The twenty seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Uzziah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.

⁷ And Uzziah laid him to sleep with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

³² The second year of Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel, began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

¹ In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, reigned Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah. ² Twenty five years old was he, when he began to reign, and reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zachariah, ³ and he did that pleased the LORD in all things, like to David his father. ⁴ He put away the hill altars, and brake the images and cut down the groves, and all to brake the brazen serpent that Moses made — for unto those days the children of Israel did burn sacrifice to it, and called it Nehushtan. ⁵ He trusted in the LORD God of Israel, so that after him came none like him among all the kings of Judah, neither among them that went before him. ⁶ He clave to the LORD and departed not from him, but kept his commandments which the LORD commanded Moses. ⁷ And the LORD was with him. And whatsoever he took in hand he did it wisely. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and served him not. ⁸ He beat the Philistines even unto Gaza and the coasts thereof, both in castles of garrisons and strong cities too. ⁹ And the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, came Shalmaneser king of Assyria upon Samaria and besieged it. ¹⁰ And they took it at the end of three years, which was the sixth of Hezekiah: that is to say the ninth year of Hosea king of Israel, was Samaria won. ¹¹ And the king of Assiria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: ¹² because they would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD their God. But transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would neither hear nor do. ¹³ The fourteenth year of king Hezekiah came Sennacherib king of Assyria against all the strong cities of Judah and took them. ¹⁴ Whereupon Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, "I have offended. But depart from me, and what thou puttest on me that I will bear." And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and also in the treasure of the king's house. ¹⁶ And the said season Hezekiah rent off the doors of the temple of the LORD and the pillars, which the said Hezekiah king of Judah covered over, and gave them to the king of Assyria. ¹⁷ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh, from Lachish, to king Hezekiah with a great Host to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and went and stood by the conduit of the uppermost pool, which is in the way to the fuller's field, ¹⁸ and called to the king. And there came out to them, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah steward of household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder. ¹⁹ And then Rabshakeh said unto them, "Tell ye Hezekiah, I pray you, 'Thus sayeth the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this that thou hast? ²⁰ Thou wilt haply speak a light word, that thou hast counsel and power to make war. On whom then dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? ²¹ Dost thou trust to the staff of this broken reed Egypt, on which if a man lean it will run into his hand and pierce it? For even so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

¹ Then king Hezekiah heard that, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. ² Furthermore he sent Eliakim, steward of the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. ³ And they said to him, "Thus sayeth Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of tribulation, rebuking and railing. Even as when the children are ready to be born, and the mothers have no power to be delivered. ⁴ O that the LORD thy God would hear all the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to rail on the living God, and to rebuke him with words which the LORD thy God hath heard. Wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left." ⁵ When the servants of king Hezekiah were come to Isaiah, ⁶ Isaiah said to them, "So shall you say to your master: 'Thus sayeth the LORD: be not afraid of the words thou heardest, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have railed on me. ⁷ For I will send him a blast that he shall hear tidings, and so return to his own land: And I will overthrow him with the sword even in his own land.'" ⁸ And Rabshakeh went back again and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah: for he had heard how that he was departed from Lachish. ⁹ And he heard tidings of Tirhakah king of the black Moors, how that he was come out to fight against him. And thereupon he departed and sent messengers unto Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰ "Thus say to Hezekiah king of Juda, 'Let not thy God carry thee out of the way, in whom thou so trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. ¹¹ Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, how they have utterly destroyed them. And how then shouldest thou escape? ¹² Hath the gods of the heathen delivered them which mine ancestors have destroyed: as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and the king of Hena and the king of Ivvah?'" ¹⁴ When Hezekiah had received the letter of the hand of the messenger and had read it, he went into the house of the LORD and laid it abroad before the LORD. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, "LORD God of Israel which dwellest between the Cherubs, thou art God alone over all the kingdoms of the earth, and thou hast made both heaven and earth. ¹⁶ LORD, bow thine ears and hear; Open LORD thine eyes and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to rail on the living God. ¹⁷ But of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed nations and their lands, ¹⁸ and have set fire on their gods. For they were no gods — but the work of the hands of man; even wood and stone. And therefore they destroyed them. ¹⁹ Now therefore LORD our God, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou LORD art God alone." ²⁰ And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, that thou hast prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria: I have heard it. ²¹ This is the thing that the LORD sayeth of him: He hath despised thee, O virgin daughter of Zion; he hath shaken his head at thee, thou daughter of Jerusalem.

¹ About that time Hezekiah was sick unto the death. And the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, "Thus sayeth the LORD: put thine household in an order, for thou shalt die and not live." ² And Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and besought the LORD, saying, ³ "Oh LORD, remember yet how I have walked before thee truly and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight," and wept a great pace. ⁴ And Isaiah was scarce gone out into the middle of the city, but that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ⁵ "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people: 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer and seen thy tears. Behold, I will heal thee, and this day three days thou shalt go up into the house of the LORD. ⁶ And I will lengthen thy days yet fifteen years, and will deliver both thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city for mine own sake, and for David my servant's sake." ⁷ And Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs." And they brought and put it on the sore, and he recovered. ⁸ Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "What is the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?" ⁹ And Isaiah said, "This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back again ten degrees?" ¹⁰ And Hezekiah said, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees. Therefore I will not that: but let the shadow go backward ten degrees." ¹¹ And Isaiah the Prophet called to the LORD, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward by which it had gone down, in the dial of Ahaz. ¹² The same season, Merodachbaladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and presents unto Hezekiah, for he heard how that Hezekiah was sick. ¹³ And Hezekiah hearkened unto them and showed them all that was in the spicery house, and his silver and gold and odours and precious ointments and his armory and all that was found in his treasure: there was nothing in his house or in all his realm, that he showed them not. ¹⁴ Then came Isaiah the Prophet unto king Hezekiah and said to him, "What say these men and from whence come they to thee?" And Hezekiah said, "They be come from a far country, even from Babylon." ¹⁵ And he said, "What have they seen in thy house?" And Hezekiah said, "All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasure that I have not showed them." ¹⁶ And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of the LORD: ¹⁷ Behold, the day shall come, that all that is in thine house and that thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon, and nothing shall be left, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁸ And of thy sons that proceeded out of thee, which thou begattest, shall there be carried away, and shall be made chamberlains in the palace of the king of Babylon." ¹⁹ And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Welcome be the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken: so that peace and truth be kept in my days." ²⁰ The remnant of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his power, and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought the water into the city, are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah. ²¹ And Hezekiah laid him to rest with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

³¹ And to wait on every offering of burnt sacrifices unto the LORD, the Sabbaths and first days of the months, and other feastful days by number and custom, was their office ever before the LORD.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

²⁸ If there chance dearth in the land, pestilence, burning or smiting of corn, grasshoppers or caterpillars, or that their enemies besiege them in the cities of their own land, or whatsoever plague or sickness it be. ²⁹ Then all the supplications and prayers that shall be made of all men among all thy people Israel, which shall know every man his own sore and his own grief, and shall stretch out their hands towards this house;

⁹ And he charged them, saying, "Do even so in the fear of the LORD with truth and pure heart.

¹⁷ And after the death of Jehoiada, came the lords of Judah and made obeisance to the king. And then he hearkened unto them. ¹⁸ And so they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and Images. And then came there wrath upon Judah and Jerusalem, for this their trespasses' sake. ¹⁹ Notwithstanding yet God sent Prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD. And they testified unto them. But they would not hear. ²⁰ And the spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stepped up above the people and said to them, "Thus sayeth God: 'Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD? Ye shall therefore not prosper, but as ye have forsaken him, so shall he forsake you.'" ²¹ Whereupon they conspired against him and stoned him with stones, at the commandment of the king: even in the court of the house of the LORD.

¹ Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah which was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. ² And he built Eloth and brought it again to Judah after the king was laid to rest with his fathers. ³ Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. ⁴ And he did that pleased the LORD, in all points as did his father Amaziah. ⁵ And he sought God while Zechariah - which taught in the visions of God - lived: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper. ⁶ And he went to battle against the Philistines and brake down the walls of Gath, and the walls of Jabneh and the walls of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod and among the Philistines. ⁷ And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and against the Meunites. ⁸ And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his name spread abroad even to Egypt: for he played the man and exceeded. ⁹ Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem over the corner gate, and over the valley gate, and over other corners, and made them strong. ¹⁰ And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry. ¹¹ And Uzziah had a host of fighting men that went out to war in the army and were told and numbered by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah an officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's lords. ¹² And the whole number of the ancient heads of the men of might were two thousand and six hundred, ¹³ and under the hands of them was the army of the host, three hundred and seven thousand, and five hundred that made war with might and strength, to help the king against his enemies. ¹⁴ And Uzziah provided them, throughout all the host, shields, spears, helmets, habergeons, bows and slings for stones. ¹⁵ And he made engines in Jerusalem by the craft of artificers to be on the towers and corners, to shoot arrows and great stones with all. And his name spread far abroad, for he was wonderfully helped, until he was become mighty. ¹⁶ And in his greatness his heart arose, that he was marred: and transgressed against the LORD his God. For he went into the temple of the LORD to burn cense upon the altar of incense. ¹⁷ But Azariah the priest went in after him with four score priests of the LORD that were bold men. ¹⁸ And they stepped to Uzziah the king and said to him, "It pertaineth not to thee, Uzziah, to burn cense unto the LORD; but to the priests the children of Aaron that are consecrated for to burn incense. Come out of the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, and it shall be no worship to thee before the LORD God." ¹⁹ And Uzziah was wroth and had cense in his hand to offer, and in his indignation against the priest, the leprosy sprang in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, even beside the incense altar. ²⁰ And Azariah the chief priest with all the other priests looked upon him: and behold he was a leper in his forehead, and they vexed him thence. And thereto he was fain to go out, because the LORD had plagued him. ²¹ And Uzziah the king continued a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a house at liberty: howbeit, he was cast out of the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son had the governance of the king's house and judged the people of the land. ²² The rest of the acts of Uzziah, both first and last, did Isaiah the prophet the son of Amos write. ²³ And when Uzziah was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial of the kings. For they said, "He is a leper." And Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Jotham was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok. ² And he did that pleased the LORD in all points as did his father Uzziah: save, that he came not to the temple of the LORD, and that the people did yet corrupt themselves. ³ He built the high gate of the temple of the LORD, and on the wall Ophel he built much. ⁴ Moreover, he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the wood country he built castles and towers. ⁵ And he fought with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand quarters of wheat and as much barley. So much also did the children of Ammon give him the second year and the third too. ⁶ And Jotham became mighty, because he directed his way before the LORD his God. ⁷ The rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and his ways are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ⁸ He was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. ⁹ And when Jotham was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not that pleased the LORD, as did his father David: ² but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made thereto Baals of metal. ³ And he offered cense in the valley of the children of Hinnom, and burnt his children in fire after the abomination of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. ⁴ And he offered burnt cense in hill altars and on mountains and under every green tree. ⁵ Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of the Syrians: which beat him and carried away a great multitude of his captive into Damascus. And thereto he was delivered into the hand of the king of Israel which slew of his a mighty slaughter.

⁵ Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of the Syrians: which beat him and carried away a great multitude of his captive into Damascus. And thereto he was delivered into the hand of the king of Israel which slew of his a mighty slaughter. ⁶ For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one day, and all fighting men: and that because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. ⁷ And Zichri a mighty man in mount Ephraim slew Maaseiah the king's son and Azrikam the lord steward of household, and Elkanah that was next to the king. ⁸ And the children of Israel took prisoners of their brethren two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters, and thereto carried away much spoil of them, and brought it to Samaria. ⁹ But there was a prophet of the LORD's named Obed which went out to the host which came to Samaria and said to them, "See, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he delivered them into your hands. And ye have slain them with cruelness that reacheth up to heaven. ¹⁰ And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem and to make them bondmen and bondwomen. What other thing do ye - ye unhappy - than offend the LORD your God? ¹¹ But now hear me, and deliver the captives again which ye have taken of your brethren: for the great wrath of the LORD is upon you!" ¹² And certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, as Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum and Amasa the son of Hadlai stood up against them that came from war, ¹³ and said unto them, "Ye shall not bring in the captives hither. For where we have offended the LORD already, ye intend to add more to our sins and trespass. For our trespass is great already, and there is fierce wrath upon Israel." ¹⁴ And upon that, the men of arms left the captives and the spoil before the lords and all the congregation. ¹⁵ And there arose certain, appointed thereto by name, and took the prisoners and clothed all that were naked among them, of the spoil, and arrayed them and shoed them and gave them to eat and to drink and anointed them, and carried all that were feeble of them upon asses and brought them to Jericho the city of Palm trees fast by their brethren: and then returned to Samaria again. ¹⁶ And at that same time, king Ahaz sent unto the kings of Assyria to have help.

¹⁶ And at that same time, king Ahaz sent unto the kings of Assyria to have help. ¹⁷ And the Edomites came yet again and slew of Judah and carried away some captives.

¹⁷ And the Edomites came yet again and slew of Judah and carried away some captives. ¹⁸ And the Philistines invaded the cities in the low country and the south of Judah: and took Bethshemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth and Socoh with the towns longing thereto, and Timnah with the towns of the same, and Gimzo with her towns, and dwelt therein.

¹⁸ And the Philistines invaded the cities in the low country and the south of Judah: and took Bethshemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth and Socoh with the towns longing thereto, and Timnah with the towns of the same, and Gimzo with her towns, and dwelt therein. ¹⁹ For the LORD brought Judah low, because of Ahaz king of Judah which made Judah naked and transgressed against the LORD.

¹⁹ For the LORD brought Judah low, because of Ahaz king of Judah which made Judah naked and transgressed against the LORD. ²⁰ And Tiglathpileser king of Assyria came upon him and besieged him, but prevailed not against him.

²⁰ And Tiglathpileser king of Assyria came upon him and besieged him, but prevailed not against him. ²¹ For Ahaz took away out of the house of the LORD and out of the king's house and out of the Lord's houses, and gave unto the king of Assyria, though it helped him not.

²¹ For Ahaz took away out of the house of the LORD and out of the king's house and out of the Lord's houses, and gave unto the king of Assyria, though it helped him not. ²² And thereto in the very time of his tribulation did king Ahaz trespass yet more against the LORD.

²² And thereto in the very time of his tribulation did king Ahaz trespass yet more against the LORD. ²³ For he offered unto the gods of them of Damascus which beat him, and said, "Because the gods of the Syrians help them, therefore will I offer to them, that they may help me also." But they were his destruction and the destruction of all Israel. ²⁴ And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and brake them, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and made him altars in all corners of Jerusalem. ²⁵ And in all the cities of Judah, city by city, he made hill altars to burn incense unto other gods, and angered the LORD God of his fathers. ²⁶ The rest of his acts and all his ways, both first and last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. ²⁷ And when Ahaz was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: but brought him not unto the sepulchers of the kings of Judah. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

¹ Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty five years old, and reigned twenty nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. ² And he did that was right in the sight of the LORD in all points as did David his father. ³ He opened the doors of the house of the LORD in the first year and first month of his reign, and he repaired them. ⁴ And he brought in the priests and the Levites and gathered them together into the east street, ⁵ and said unto them, "Hear me ye Levites: purify yourselves and hallow the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and bring out the filthiness out of the holy place. ⁶ For our fathers have trespassed and done evil favouredly in the eyes of the LORD our God: and have forsaken him, and turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned to their backs. ⁷ And beside that they have shut up the doors of the porch and quenched the lamps and have neither burned cense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel. ⁸ Wherefore the wrath of the LORD fell on Judah and Jerusalem: and he scattered them and made them so thin that men hiss at it, even as ye see with your eyes. ⁹ For see, our fathers were overthrown with the sword and our sons, our daughters and our wives were carried away captive for the same cause. ¹⁰ Now have I in my heart to strike a covenant with the LORD God of Israel: that his wrath may cease. ¹¹ Now therefore, my sons, be not negligent: for the LORD had chosen you to stand before him, and for to minister and burn offerings to him." ¹² Then the Levites arose: Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah being of the children of the Kohathites; and the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah; ¹³ and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah; ¹⁴ and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel. ¹⁵ And they gathered their brethren and purified themselves, and then went at the commandment of the king by the word of the LORD, for to cleanse the house of the LORD. ¹⁶ And the priests went into the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD, and in the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it and carried it out into the brook Kidron. ¹⁷ They began the first day of the first month to purify, and came the eighth day to the porch of the LORD: so that they had purged the house of the LORD in eight days; in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. ¹⁸ And then they went into Hezekiah the king and said, "We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offerings with all his vessels, and the shewbread table with all his apparel; ¹⁹ and thereto all the vessels which king Ahaz did cast aside when he reigned and transgressed, them we have repaired and sanctified; and see, they are before the altar of the LORD." ²⁰ And Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the lords of the city and went up to the house of the LORD. ²¹ And there were brought seven oxen, seven rams, seven lambs and seven kids to be a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD. ²² And they slew the oxen; and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar; and they slew the rams and sprinkled the blood upon the altar; and they slew the lambs and sprinkled the blood upon the altar. ²³ And then they brought forth the kids of the sin offering before the king and the congregation which put their hands upon them. ²⁴ And the priests slew them and offered the blood of them upon the altar, to make satisfaction for all Israel, for the king said that the burnt offering and the sin offering should serve for all Israel. ²⁵ And they set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, psalteries and harps according to the commandments of David and of Gad the king's seer of visions and of Nathan the prophet. For so was the commandment of the LORD through the hand, of his prophets. ²⁶ And so the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with trumpets. ²⁷ And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began, and the trumpets with the instruments of David king of Israel. ²⁸ And all the congregation bowed themselves, and the singers sang, and the trumpets blew, and continued until the burnt offering was finished. ²⁹ And when they had made an end of the burnt offering, the king and all that were with him kneeled down and bowed themselves and gave praise and thanks. ³⁰ And Hezekiah the king and the lords bade the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer of visions. And the Levites praised that they rejoiced again, and the other stooped and bowed themselves. ³¹ And Hezekiah answered, and said, "Now that ye have filled your hands to the LORD, go to and bring in the sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD." And the congregation brought in the sacrifices and thank offerings, and all that were willing brought burnt offerings. ³² And the number of the burnt offerings which the congregation brought in was seventy oxen and a hundred rams and two hundred lambs: and all for burnt offerings to the LORD. ³³ And beside that they dedicated six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.

¹ And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and thereto wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to offer Passover unto the LORD God of Israel. ² And the king held a counsel with his lords and all the congregation at Jerusalem to keep the feast of Passover in the second month. ³ For they could not keep it at that time: for there were not priests enough sanctified, neither was the people gathered together to Jerusalem. ⁴ And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation. ⁵ And they decreed that it should be proclaimed throughout all Israel from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come and hold the feast of the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not often done it, as it is written how they should. ⁶ And the messengers went with letters of the hand of the king and of his lords throughout all Israel and Judah, at the commandment of the king; which said, "Children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and so will he turn to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria. ⁷ And be ye not like your fathers and your brethren which trespassed against the LORD of your fathers, which therefore gave them up that they are wasted, as ye see. ⁸ Wherefore, be not stiff-necked like unto your fathers, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and come to his holy place which he hath sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his wrath may turn from you. ⁹ For if ye turn unto the LORD, then your brethren and your children shall find compassion in the presence of them that hold them captive, that they may come again unto this land: for the LORD your God is full of mercy and compassion, and will not turn his face from you, if ye turn again to him." ¹⁰ And the posts went from city to city throughout the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and even unto Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn and mocked them. ¹¹ Nevertheless, yet divers of Asher, Manasseh and of Zebulun meekened themselves and came to Jerusalem. ¹² And thereto the hand of God was in Judah, to make them of one accord to do the commandment of the king and the captains, which was according to the word of the LORD. ¹³ And so there assembled to Jerusalem much people and a mighty great congregation, to hold the feast of sweet bread in the second month. ¹⁴ And they arose and put away the altars that were in Jerusalem. And thereto all the incense they did away and cast them into the brook Kidron. ¹⁵ And they slew Passover the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and Levites sanctified themselves for shame, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD. ¹⁶ And they stood in their standing after their manner according to the law of Moses, the man of God. And the priests sprinkled the blood, receiving it of the hands of the Levites. ¹⁷ And because there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: and therefore did the Levites slay Passover for all that were not clean to sanctify them to the LORD. ¹⁸ There was very much people out of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun that were not clean, and therefore did eat Passover otherwise than writing specifieth. But Hezekiah prayed for them, and said, ¹⁹ "The good LORD be merciful to all that set their hearts to seek the God that is the LORD God of their fathers, though they do it not according to the cleanness of the holy place." ²⁰ And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people. ²¹ And so the children of Israel that were found at Jerusalem, held the feast of sweet bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day with loud instruments. ²² And Hezekiah spake heartily unto the Levites that had good understanding of the LORD. And they did eat that feast seven days long and offered peace offerings and thanked the LORD God of their fathers. ²³ And the whole assembly took counsel to keep seven days more: and they held those seven days with gladness. ²⁴ For Hezekiah king of Judah gave for heave offerings to the congregation a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep. And the lords gave to the congregation for heave offerings a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep. And the priests sanctified themselves, that they were enough. ²⁵ And all the congregation of Judah with the priests and Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel and the strangers, both that came out of the land of Israel and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced: ²⁶ and there was great joy in Jerusalem. For since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel it happened not so in Jerusalem. ²⁷ And the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer went up unto his holy dwelling place heaven.

¹ And when they had finished all this, then all Israel that were found in cities of Judah went out and brake the Images and cut down the groves, and all to break the hill altars and the other altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had made an end of them. And afterward all the children of Israel returned every man to his possession in their own cities. ² And Hezekiah set the priests and the Levites in their order to wait by course, every man according to his office whether priest or Levite, for the burnt offerings and peace offerings, and to minister and to thank and to pray in the gates of the lodge of the LORD. ³ And the king gave a portion of his substance for burnt offerings at morning and even, and for burnt offerings on the Sabbath days and new moons and other solemn feasts, according as it is written in the law of the LORD. ⁴ And he bade the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the part of the priests and Levites, that they might be maintained in the law of the LORD. ⁵ And as soon as the word came abroad the children of Israel brought abundance of first fruits of corn, wine, oil and honey, and of all manner of fruits of the field: and the tithes of all manner of things brought they in plenteously. ⁶ And the children of Israel and Judah that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithes of oxen and sheep, and tithes of dedicated things which were dedicated to the LORD their God, and put them on heaps. ⁷ In the third month they began to lay the heaps and finished them the seventh. ⁸ And when Hezekiah and the lords came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel. ⁹ And Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. ¹⁰ And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, "Since they began to bring the heave offerings into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough, and yet left abundance, for the LORD hath blessed his people and thereof is this heap left." ¹¹ And Hezekiah bade dress up the store houses about the house of the LORD. And so they did, ¹² and carried in the heave offerings and the tithes and the dedicated gifts; even of fidelity. Over which Conaniah the Levite had the rule with Shimei his brother next to him. ¹³ And Jehiel, Azariah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath and Benaiah were overseers ordained by Conaniah and Shimei his brother, at the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God. ¹⁴ And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, porter of the East door, had the oversight of the freewill offerings of God, to give heave offerings unto the LORD, and was over things most holy. ¹⁵ And under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests of their fidelity, to give to their brethren their portions, as well to the small as to the great. ¹⁶ And to the males also that were reckoned from three years and above, among all that went into the house of the LORD day by day, to do service and to wait by course. ¹⁷ And to the priests that were reckoned in the households of their fathers from twenty years and above, to wait when their courses came. ¹⁸ And to them that were reckoned throughout all their babes, wives, sons and daughters throughout all the congregation. ¹⁹ For to the fidelity of them did men commit their sanctified gifts. And thereto among the children of Aaron the priests were men named by name in the fields of the suburbs of all their cities, city by city, for to give portions to all the males of the priests and to all that were reckoned among the Levites. ²⁰ And of this manner did Hezekiah, throughout all Judah; and did that was good, right and truth, before the LORD his God. ²¹ And in all the works that he began in the service of the house of God, to seek his God after the law and commandment, that did he with all his heart, and prospered.

¹ After these deeds and truth, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered into Judah, and pitched against the strong cities, and thought to draw them to him. ² And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, ³ he took counsel with his captains and men of might, to stop the water of the fountains that were without the city - and they were content to help him. ⁴ And so there gathered much people together and stopped all the wells, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land; intending that the kings of Assyria should not find much water when they came. ⁵ And he went to lustily and built up the wall where it was broken, and made towers above upon, and yet another wall without, and repaired Millo the city of David, and made many darts and shields. ⁶ And he set Captains of war over the people and gathered them together unto the large street of the gate of the city and spake gently to them, saying, ⁷ "Pluck up your hearts and be strong: Be not afraid or in any wise discouraged for dread of the king of Assyria, and of the great multitude that is with him: for there is one greater with us than with him. ⁸ With him is an arm of flesh: But with us is the LORD our God for to help us and to fight our battles!" And the people were well couraged with the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. ⁹ After that Sennacherib king of Assyria sent of his servants to Jerusalem - he himself lying before Lachish, and all his kingdom with him - unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, ¹⁰ "Thus sayeth Sennacherib king of Assyria: Wherein do ye trust, O ye that are besieged in Jerusalem? ¹¹ Hezekiah deceiveth you, to deliver you to death, hunger and thirst, saying, 'The LORD our God shall rid us out of the hand of the king of Assyria!' ¹² Is it not that Hezekiah that put down his hill altars and his other altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, 'Before one altar ye shall bow yourselves and upon that offer also?' ¹³ Moreover, have ye not heard what I and my fathers have done unto the people of all lands? Were the gods of the people of other lands able to save their lands out of my hand? ¹⁴ Which of all the gods was it, of those nations that my fathers destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? ¹⁵ Wherefore now let not Hezekiah deceive you, either persuade you of this fashion, nor yet believe him. For as no god among so many nations and kingdoms, was able to rid his people out of mine hand and the hands of my fathers: even so much less shall your God keep you out of mine hand!" ¹⁶ And yet more did his servants speak against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah. ¹⁷ And thereto he wrote a letter to rail on the LORD God of Israel and spake therein, saying, "As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, no more shall the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand." ¹⁸ And they cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the walls, to fear them and to dismay them, that they might have taken the city. ¹⁹ And they spake against the God of Jerusalem; as against the gods of the nations of the earth, which are the work of the hands of men. ²⁰ But Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed concerning the thing and cried up to heaven. ²¹ And the LORD sent an angel and destroyed all the men of war and the lords and captains of the host of the king of Assyria, that he turned his face, with shame, towards his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, he was there overthrown with the sword - even by them that issued out of his bowels. ²² And so the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabiters at Jerusalem out of the hands of Sennacherib king of Assyria and of all others, and maintained them on all sides - ²³ Insomuch that many brought presents unto the LORD to Jerusalem and precious gifts to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth. ²⁴ In those days Hezekiah was sick unto the death and besought the LORD; which answered him and showed him a wonderful miracle. ²⁵ But Hezekiah did not according to the courtesy showed him, for his heart arose: and therefore came there wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. ²⁶ Notwithstanding, Hezekiah meekened himself for the arising of his heart, both he and the inhabiters of Jerusalem. Wherefore the wrath of the LORD fell not upon them in the days of Hezekiah. ²⁷ And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour. And he gathered him treasure of silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields and of all manner pleasant Jewels; ²⁸ and made store houses for the fruits of corn, wine and oil; and stables for all manner of beasts, and folds for sheep. ²⁹ And he made him towns because he had cattle of sheep and oxen great abundance. For God had given him substance exceeding much. ³⁰ And the said Hezekiah stopped the upper water springs of Gihon and brought them down to the West side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. ³¹ But when the ambassadors of the lords of Babylon were sent to him to enquire of the wonder that chanced in the land, God left him: to tempt him, that all that was in his heart might be known. ³² The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and his goodness are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. ³³ And then Hezekiah laid him to rest with his fathers, and they buried him in the highest sepulchre of the sons of David: and Judah and the inhabiters of Jerusalem did him worship at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

¹⁴ Thereto, all the rulers of the priests with the people trespassed apace after all manner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ Thereto, all the rulers of the priests with the people trespassed apace after all manner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, sending them betimes: for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. ¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.

⁵ And about the evening sacrifice I rose up from my heaviness, and rent my clothes and my raiment, and fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God;

³⁴ As for us: we have been ungodly, and our kings, princes, priests, and fathers have not done after thy law, nor regarded thy commandments, and thy earnest exhortations wherewith thou hast exhorted them,

¹ And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem. But the other people cast lots therefore, so that among ten one part went to Jerusalem into the holy city to dwell, and nine parts in the cities.

⁷ So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown; ⁸ so that he sat upon the ground in the ashes, and scraped off the filth of his sores with a potsherd.

¹⁸ For though he make a wound, he giveth a medicine again: though he smite, his hand maketh whole again.

¹³ "If thou hadst now a right heart, and liftest up thine hands toward him; ¹⁴ if thou wouldst put away the wickedness which thou hast in hand, so that no ungodliness dwelt in thy house;

⁸ What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire? ⁹ Doth God hear him the sooner, when he crieth unto him in his necessity?

¹⁸ His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh.

²⁰ Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

³ As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

⁶ For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

⁶ Thou shalt destroy the liars; the LORD will abhor both the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly; thou hast put out their name forever and ever.

¹⁴ That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in thy salvation.

⁶ I wash my hands with innocency, O LORD, and so will I go to thine altar,

¹⁴ Eschew evil, and do good; seek peace, and ensue it.

²⁷ Flee from evil, and do the thing that is good, and dwell for evermore.

³⁸ As for the transgressors, they shall perish together; and the ungodly shall be rooted out at the last.

³ There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure; neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin. ⁴ For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear. ⁵ My wounds stink, and are corrupt, through my foolishness.

⁶ Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not, but mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required.

⁴ The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling of the most highest.

¹ {A Song of a Psalm of the children of Korah} Great is the LORD, and highly to be praised, in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill.

⁸ Like as we have heard, so see we in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God. God upholdeth the same forever. Selah.

⁴ He shall call the heavens from above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.

⁸ I reprove thee not because of thy sacrifice; thy burnt-offerings are always before me.

⁷ Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

¹⁶ For if thou hadst pleasure in sacrifice, I would give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

¹ {To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David} Hear my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition.

³ The ungodly are froward, even from their mother's womb; as soon as they be born, they go astray and speak lies.

¹⁸ If I incline unto wickedness with my heart, the LORD will not hear me.

²⁷ For lo, they that forsake thee shall perish; thou destroyest all them that commit fornication against thee.

² In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort.

⁸ And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.

⁴⁰ O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert?

³ Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right. ⁴ Deliver the outcast and poor, and save them from the hand of the ungodly.

¹⁸ The LORD is our defense, and the holy one of Israel is our king. ¹⁹ Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

⁹ For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, lo, thine enemies shall perish, and all the workers of wickedness shall be scattered abroad.

⁸ Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

³⁵ As for the sinners, they shall be consumed out of the earth, and the ungodly shall come to an end. But praise thou the LORD, O my soul: Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

³⁴ A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

³⁹ When they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or trouble,

⁵ As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness, the LORD shall lead them forth with the evil doers; but peace shall be upon Israel.

² how he swore unto the LORD, and vowed a vow unto the almighty one of Jacob,

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and praise the LORD.

²⁵ but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught. ²⁶ Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:

²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

⁶ Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise.

⁸ The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

²³ The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness.

¹ He that is stiff necked and will not be reformed, shall suddenly be destroyed without any help.

²⁴ Whoso keepeth company with a thief, hateth his own soul; he heareth blasphemies, and telleth it not forth.

⁹ With thy mouth defend the thing that is lawful and right, and the cause of the poor and helpless.

¹ Be not hasty with thy mouth,

²¹ How happeneth it then that the righteous city, which was full of equity, is become unfaithful as an whore? Righteousness dwelt in it, but now murder. ²² Thy silver is turned to dross, and thy wine mixed with water. ²³ Thy princes are traitors and companions of thieves. They love gifts altogether, and gape for rewards. As for the fatherless, they help him not to his right, neither will they let the widows causes come before them.

¹ The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in a vision, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

⁸ For Jerusalem is overthrown, and Judah must fall to the ground, because that both their words and counsels are against the LORD, they provoke the presence of his Majesty unto anger. ⁹ The changing of their countenance betrayeth them; yea, they declare their own sins themselves, as Sodom, and hide them not. Woe be unto their souls, for they shall be heavily rewarded. ¹⁰ Bid the righteous do well, for they shall enjoy the fruits of their studies. ¹¹ But woe be unto the ungodly and unrighteous, for they shall be rewarded after their works.

¹⁴ The LORD shall come forth to reason with the senators and princes of his people, and shall say thus unto them, "It is ye that have burnt up my vineyard; the robbery of the poor is in your house.

²⁵ Their husbands and their mighty men shall perish with the sword in battle.

⁴ what time as the LORD shall wash away the desolation of the daughters of Zion, and purge the blood out from Jerusalem with the wind of his smoke and fire.

¹ Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground. ² This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.

⁵ Well, now I shall tell you how I will do with my vineyard: I will take the hedge from it, that it may perish, and break down the wall, that it may be trodden under foot. ⁶ I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.

⁶ I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it. ⁷ As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.

⁹ The LORD of Hosts roundeth me thus in mine ear: Shall not many greater and more gorgeous houses be so waste, that no man shall dwell in them?

¹² In those companies are harps and lutes, tabrets and pipes, and wine. But they regard not the work of the LORD, and consider not the operation of his hands.

¹⁶ But the LORD of Hosts, that holy God: shall be exalted and untouched, when he shall declare his equity and righteousness after this manner. ¹⁷ Then shall the sheep eat their appointed fodder; and the rich mens' lands, that were laid waste, shall strangers devour.

¹⁹ Which used to speak on this manner: "Let him make haste now, and go forth with his work, that we may see it! Let that counsel of the holy one of Israel come, and draw nigh, that we may know it!"

²⁴ Therefore like as fire licketh up the straw, and as the flame consumeth the stubble: Even so - when their root is full - their blossom shall vanish away like dust or smoke. For they have cast away the law of the LORD of Hosts, and blaspheme the word of the holy maker of Israel.

¹ In the same year that king Uzziah died, I saw the LORD sitting upon a high and glorious seat, and his train filled the temple.

¹¹ Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.

¹¹ Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded. ¹² For the LORD shall take the men far away, so that the land shall lie waste. ¹³ Nevertheless, the tenth part shall remain therein, for it shall convert and be fruitful. And likewise as the Terebinths and Oak trees in winter cast their leaves and yet have their sap in them, so shall the holy seed continue in their substance."

¹³ Nevertheless, the tenth part shall remain therein, for it shall convert and be fruitful. And likewise as the Terebinths and Oak trees in winter cast their leaves and yet have their sap in them, so shall the holy seed continue in their substance."

¹ It happened in the time of Ahaz the son of Jotham, which was the son of Uzziah, king of Judah: that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to besiege it, but won it not.

¹³ Wherefore the LORD said, "Hearken, ye of the house of David: Is it so small a thing for you, to be grievous to men, but that ye should also be painful unto God?

⁸ And shall break in upon Judah, increasing in power, till he get him by the throat. He shall fill also the wideness of thy land with his broad wings, O Immanuel."

¹⁷ Thus I wait upon the LORD that hath turned his face from the house of Jacob, and I look unto him.

²⁰ If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.

⁵ Moreover all temerarious and seditious power, yea, where there is but a coat filled with blood, shall be burnt, and feed the fire.

¹³ For the people turneth not unto him, that chastiseth them, neither do they seek the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁹ For this cause shall the wrath of the LORD of Hosts fall upon the land, and the people shall be consumed, as it were with fire: no man shall spare his brother,

²¹ Manasseh shall eat Ephraim and Ephraim Manasseh, and they both shall eat Judah. After all this shall not the LORD's wrath cease, but yet shall his hand be stretched out still.

¹ Woe be unto you that make unrighteous laws, and devise things, which be too hard for to keep: ² wherethrough the poor are oppressed on every side, and the innocents of my people are therewith robbed of judgment: that widows may be your prey, and that ye may rob the fatherless.

⁶ For I shall send him among those hypocritical people, among the people that have deserved my disfavour shall I send him: that he may utterly rob them, spoil them, and tread them down like the mire in the street.

²⁰ After that day shall the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped out of the house of Jacob, seek no more comfort at him that smote them, but shall comfort themselves with faithfulness and truth in the LORD, the holy one of Israel. ²¹ The remnant, yea and the Posterity of Jacob, shall convert unto God the mighty one. ²² For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, yet shall but the remnant of them only convert unto him. Perfect is the judgment of him that floweth in righteousness,

³² yet shall he remain at Nob that day. After that, shall he lift up his hand against the mount Zion, against the hill of Jerusalem.

⁶ Cry and shout thou inhabiter of Zion, for great among you is the holy of Israel.

¹ This is the heavy burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos did see.

²⁰ and art not buried with them. Even because that thou hast wasted thy land, and destroyed thy people. For the generation of the wicked shall be without honour, forever.

⁶ Some gathering indeed shall there be left in it, even as in the shaking of an olive tree, there remain two of three berries in the upper bough, and four or five in the branches. Thus the LORD God of Israel hath spoken.

² Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings.

¹⁰ the wicked cities shall be broken down, all houses shall be shut that no man may come in. ¹¹ In the streets shall there be lift up a cry because of wine, all men's cheer shall vanish away, and all joy of the earth shall pass. ¹² Desolation shall remain in the cities, and the gates shall be smitten with destruction. ¹³ For it shall happen unto all lands and to all people, like as when a man smiteth down the olives, that are left upon the tree: or seeketh after grapes, when the wine gathering is out.

¹¹ LORD, when thine hand is lift up to strike, they see it not: but they shall see it, and be confounded, when thou shalt devour them with the wrath of the people, and with the fire of thine enemies.

⁴ I hear no evil will in my mind. Who will compel me that I, greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?

¹¹ Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

¹⁴ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye mockers that rule the LORD's people, which is at Jerusalem.

¹ Woe be unto thee O Ariel, thou city that David won. Take ye yet some years, and let some feasts yet pass over:

¹⁹ The meek-spirited shall hold a merry feast in the LORD, and the poor among them that be lowly shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel.

¹ Alas, for those disobedient children," sayeth the LORD, "that will take counsel without me. Alas, that they will take a secret advice, and not out of my spirit: and therefore add they sin unto sin.

⁹ For it is an obstinate people, unfaithful children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD.

¹¹ Tread out of the way, go out of the path, turn the holy one of Israel from us." ¹² Therefore, thus sayeth the holy one of Israel, "Insomuch as ye have cast off your beauty, and comforted yourselves with power and nimbleness, and put your confidence therein: ¹³ therefore shall ye have this mischief again for your destruction and fall, like as a high wall, that falleth because of some rift or blast, whose breaking cometh suddenly.

¹⁵ For the LORD God, even the holy one of Israel, hath promised this: "In repentance and in rest shall ye be safe; in quietness and hope shall your strength lie."

²² Ye shall destroy also the covering of your silver images, and the decking of your golden idols. Even as filthiness shall ye put them away, and say, "Get you hence."

²⁹ But ye shall sing, as the use is in the night of the holy solemnity. Ye shall rejoice from your heart, as they that come with the pipe, when they go up to the mount of the LORD, unto the rock of Israel.

⁶ Therefore, O ye children of Israel, turn again from that infidelity wherein you drowned yourselves. ⁷ For in that day every man shall cast out his Idols of silver and gold, which ye have made with your sinful hands.

¹ Behold, a king shall govern after the rule of righteousness, and the princes shall rule according to the balance of equity. ² He shall be unto men, as a defense for the wind, and as a refuge for the tempest, like as a river of water in a thirsty place, and the shadow of a great rock in a dry land.

⁵ Stand up LORD, thou that dwellest on high: Let Zion be filled with equity and righteousness.

¹⁴ The sinners at Zion are afraid, and a sudden fearfulness is come upon the hypocrites. "What is he among us," say they, "that will dwell by that consuming fire? Which of us may abide that everlasting heat?" ¹⁵ He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.

²⁴ There lieth no man that sayeth, "I am sick," but all evil is taken away from the people, that dwell there.

⁹ Thy floods shall be turned to pitch, and thine earth to brimstone, and therewith shall the land be kindled,

⁹ Thy floods shall be turned to pitch, and thine earth to brimstone, and therewith shall the land be kindled, ¹⁰ so that it shall not be quenched day nor night, but smoke evermore and so forth to lie waste. And no man shall go through thy land forever.

⁴ Say unto them that are of a fearful heart, "Be of good cheer, and fear not. Behold, your God cometh, to take vengeance, and to reward, God cometh his own self, and will deliver you."

⁴ The LORD thy God, no doubt, hath well considered the words of Rabshakeh, whom his lord the king of the Assyrians hath sent, to defy and blaspheme the living God: with such words as the LORD thy God hath heard right well. And therefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that yet are left.'"

²² this is the answer, that the LORD hath given concerning him: Despised art thou, and mocked, O daughter of Zion, he hath shaken his head at thee, O daughter of Jerusalem. ²³ But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and exalted thy proud looks? Even against the holy one of Israel.

³¹ And such of the house of Judah as are escaped, shall come together, and the remnant shall take root beneath, and bring forth fruit above. ³² For the escaped shall go out of Jerusalem, and the remnant from the mount Zion. And this shall the jealousy of the LORD of Hosts bring to pass.'

⁵ For the glory of the LORD shall appear, and all flesh shall at once see it. For why? The mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."

⁹ Moreover the voice cried thus, "Go up unto the hill, O Zion, thou that bringest good tidings; lift up thy voice with power, O thou preacher Jerusalem. Lift it up without fear, and say unto the cities of Judah, 'Behold, your God!'

¹ Be still, ye Islands, and hearken unto me. Be strong ye people; Come hither, and show your cause: we will go to the law together.

¹⁴ Be not afraid, thou little worm Jacob, and thou despised Israel: for I will help thee, sayeth the LORD, and the holy one of Israel thine avenger.

¹⁶ Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them. But thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shall delight in praising the holy one of Israel.

²⁰ All this do I, that they altogether may see a mark, perceive with their hearts and consider, that the hand of the LORD maketh these things, and that the holy one of Israel bringeth them to pass. ²¹ Stand at your cause, sayeth the LORD, and bring forth your strongest ground, counseleth the King of Jacob.

¹⁷ Which bringeth forth the chariots and horses, the host and the power, that they may fall asleep and never rise, and be extinct, like as towe is quenched:

²⁴ But thou hast laden me with thy sins, and wearied me with thine ungodliness.

²⁴ But thou hast laden me with thy sins, and wearied me with thine ungodliness. ²⁵ Whereas I yet am even he only, that for mine own self's sake do away thine offenses, and forget thy sins: so that I will never think upon them. ²⁶ Put me now in remembrance, for we will reason together, and show what thou hast for thee, to make thee righteous.

¹⁸ Yet men neither consider nor understand; because their eyes are stopped that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they can not perceive.

²² As for thine offenses, I drive them away like the clouds, and thy sins as the mist. Turn ye again unto me, and I will deliver thee.

¹⁶ Confounded be ye, and put to dishonour: go hence together with shame, all ye that be workmasters of error: that is, worshipers of Idols.

²¹ Let men draw nigh, let them come hither, and ask counsel one at another, and show forth: "What is he, that told this before?" Or, "Who spake of it, ever since the beginning?" Have not I, the LORD, done it: without whom there is none other God? The true God and Saviour, and there is else none but I. ²² And therefore turn you unto me, all ye ends of the earth; so shall ye be saved, for I am God, and there is else none. ²³ I swear by myself: out of my mouth cometh the word of righteousness, and that may no man turn: but all knees shall bow unto me, and all tongues shall swear by me, ²⁴ saying, "Verily in the LORD is my righteousness and strength. To him shall men come: but all they that think scorn of him, shall be confounded." ²⁵ And the whole seed of Israel shall be justified, and make their boast in the LORD.

³ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all ye that remain yet of the household of Israel, whom I have borne from your mother's womb, and brought you up from your birth, till ye were grown: ⁴ I, I which shall bear you unto your last age, I have made you; I will also nourish you, bear you and save you.

² Which are called free men of the holy city, as they that look for comfort in the God of Israel, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

²⁶ And will feed thine enemies with their own flesh, and make them drink of their own blood, as of sweet wine. And all flesh shall know, O Jacob, that I am the LORD - thy Saviour and strong avenger.

¹¹ But take heed, ye have all kindled a fire, and girded yourselves with the flame. Ye walk in the glistering of your own fire, and in the flame that ye have kindled. This cometh unto you from my hand, namely that ye shall sleep in sorrow.

¹¹ Away, away, get you out from thence and touch no unclean thing. Go out from among such. And be clean ye that bear the vessel of the LORD.

¹ Come to the waters, all ye that be thirsty, and ye that have no money. Come buy, that ye may have to eat. Come buy wine and milk, without any money, or money worth. ² Wherefore do ye lay out your money, for the thing that feedeth not, and spend your labour about the thing that satisfieth you not? But hearken rather unto me, and ye shall eat of the best, and your soul shall have her pleasure in plenteousness. ³ Incline your ears, and come unto me, take heed, and your soul shall live. For I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

⁶ Seek the LORD, while he may be found, and call upon him while he is nigh. ⁷ Let the ungodly man forsake his ways and the unrighteous his imaginations, and turn again unto the LORD: so shall he be merciful unto him; and to our God, for he is ready to forgive.

³ Come hither, therefore, ye charmer's children; ye sons of the adulterer and the whore.

³ Come hither, therefore, ye charmer's children; ye sons of the adulterer and the whore. ⁴ Wherein take ye your pleasure? Upon whom gape ye with your mouth, and blear out your tongue? Are ye not children of adultery, and a seed of dissimulation?

⁴ Wherein take ye your pleasure? Upon whom gape ye with your mouth, and blear out your tongue? Are ye not children of adultery, and a seed of dissimulation? ⁵ Ye take your pleasure under the oaks, and under all green trees. And ye offer children in the valleys, and dens of stone.

⁵ Ye take your pleasure under the oaks, and under all green trees. And ye offer children in the valleys, and dens of stone. ⁶ Thy part shall be with the stony rocks by the river: Yea, even these shall be thy part. For there thou hast poured meat and drink offerings unto them. Should I delight in that? ⁷ Thou hast made thy bed upon high mountains; thou wentest up thither, and there hast thou slain sacrifices. ⁸ Behind the doors and posts, hast thou set up thy remembrance: When thou hast uncovered thyself to another than me, when thou wentest down and made thy bed wider, when thou didst carve the certain of yonder Idols, and lovedest their couches, where thou sawest them. ⁹ Thou wentest straight to kings with oil and divers ointments - that is, thou hast sent thy messengers far off, and yet art thou fallen into the pit thereby.

¹ Cry with the throat and spare not. Lift up thy voice as a trumpet, and tell my people their offences and the house of Jacob their sins. ² For me they seek day by day; and will know my ways, as a people that doth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the equity of their God.

⁷ Yea, and to break the bread to the hungry; and to bring the poor that are harborless unto house; and when thou seest a naked, that thou clothe him and that thou shouldest withdraw thyself from helping thine own flesh?

¹¹ The LORD shall ever be thy guide, and satisfy the desire of thine heart, and fill thy bones with marrow. Thou shalt be like a fresh watered garden, and like the fountain of water, that never leaveth running.

¹⁴ Then shalt thou have thy pleasure in the LORD, which shall carry thee high above the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the LORD's own mouth hath so promised.

² But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not. ³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with unrighteousness; Your lips speak lies, and your tongue setteth out wickedness.

¹⁴ Moreover, those shall come kneeling unto thee that have vexed thee: and all they that despised thee, shall fall down at thy foot. Thou shalt be called the city of the LORD, the holy Zion of Israel.

¹⁶ Thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and kings' breasts shall feed thee. And thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and defender, the mighty one of Jacob. ¹⁷ For brass will I give thee gold, and for iron, silver: for wood, brass, and for stones, iron. I will make peace thy ruler, and righteousness thine officer. ¹⁸ Violence and robbery shall never be heard of in thy land, neither harm and destruction within thy borders. Thy walls shall be called health, and thy gates the praise of God.

²¹ Thy people shall be all godly and possess the land forever: the flower of my planting, the work of my hands whereof I will rejoice.

² That I might declare the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of the vengeance of our God; that I might comfort all them that are in heaviness.

⁸ For I the LORD, which love right and hate robbery, though it were offered me, shall make their works full of faithfulness, and make an everlasting covenant with them.

¹ For Zion's sake therefore will I not hold my tongue, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not cease: until their righteousness break forth as a shining light, and their salvation as a burning lamp. ² Then shall the Gentiles see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory. Thou shalt be named with a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall show.

¹¹ Behold, the LORD will make it known unto the ends of the world. And say ye unto the daughter of Zion, "Behold, he that is thy saviour cometh and his reward with him and his work before him. ¹² And they shall be called a people of holiness, redeemed of the LORD. And thou shalt be called a haunted city and not forsaken.

⁴ For that day of vengeance that I have taken in hand, and the year of my deliverance, is come.

⁹ In their troubles he forsook them not, but the angel that went forth from his presence delivered them. Of very love and kindness that he had unto them, he redeemed them: He hath born them, and carried them up ever since the world began. ¹⁰ But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.

² For thus long have I ever holden out my hands to an unfaithful people, that go not the right way, but after their own imaginations: ³ To a people that is ever defying me to my face. They make their oblations in gardens, and their smoke upon altars of brick;

¹¹ But as for you, ye are they that have forsaken the LORD, and forgotten my holy hill. Ye have set up an altar to Fortune, and given rich drink offerings unto the planets. ¹² Therefore will I number you with the sword, that ye shall be destroyed all together. For when I called, no man gave me answer: when I spake, ye hearkened not unto me, but did wickedness before mine eyes, and chose the thing that pleased me not.

³ For whoso slayeth an ox for me, doth me so great dishonour, as he that killeth a man. He that killeth a sheep for me, choketh a dog. He that bringeth me meat offerings, offereth swine's blood. Who so maketh me a memorial of incense, praiseth the thing that is unright. Yet take they such ways in hand, and their soul delighteth in these abominations.

¹⁷ Such as have made themselves holy and clean in the gardens, and those that have eaten swine's flesh, mice, and other abominations, shall be taken away together, sayeth the LORD.

²⁴ And they shall go forth and look upon the carrions of them that have transgressed against me. For their worms shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and all flesh shall abhor them.

⁵ Thus sayeth the LORD unto you, "What unfaithfulness found your fathers in me, that they went so far away from me, falling to lightness, and being so vain?

⁵ Thus sayeth the LORD unto you, "What unfaithfulness found your fathers in me, that they went so far away from me, falling to lightness, and being so vain? ⁶ They thought not in their hearts, 'Where have we left the LORD, that brought us out of the land of Egypt? That led us through the wilderness; through a desert and rough land; through a dry and deadly land; yea a land that no man had gone through, and wherein no man had dwelt?' ⁷ And when I had brought you into a pleasant well builded land, that ye might enjoy the fruits and all the commodities of the same: ye went forth and defiled my land, and brought mine heritage to abomination. ⁸ The priests themselves said not once, 'Where is the LORD?' They that have the law in their hands, know me not: The shepherds offend against me. The Prophets do service unto Baal, and follow such things as shall bring them no profit. ⁹ "Wherefore I am constrained, sayeth the LORD, to make my complaint upon you, and upon your children. ¹⁰ Go into the Isles of Chittim, and look well; send unto Kedar, and take diligent heed; and see, whether such things be done there, ¹¹ whether the Gentiles themselves deal so falsely and untruly with their gods - which yet are no gods indeed! But my people hath given over their high honour, for a thing that may not help them. ¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, be afraid, and abashed at such a thing, sayeth the LORD. ¹³ For my people hath done two evils: They have forsaken me, the well of the water of life; and digged them pits, yea, vile and broken pits, that hold no water.

¹³ For my people hath done two evils: They have forsaken me, the well of the water of life; and digged them pits, yea, vile and broken pits, that hold no water.

¹⁵ Why do they roar and cry then upon him, as a lion? They have made his land waste, his cities are so burnt up, that there is no man dwelling in them.

¹⁷ Cometh not this unto thee, because thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, ever since he led thee by the way?

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts. ²⁰ "I have ever broken thy yoke of old, and bursten thy bonds: yet sayest thou, 'I will no more serve.' But like a harlot thou runnest about upon all high hills,

²⁰ "I have ever broken thy yoke of old, and bursten thy bonds: yet sayest thou, 'I will no more serve.' But like a harlot thou runnest about upon all high hills, ²¹ and among all green trees. Whereas I planted thee out of noble grapes and good roots. How art thou turned then into a bitter, unfruitful, and strange grape?

³⁰ It is but lost labour, that I smite your children, for they receive not my correction. Your own sword destroyeth your prophets, like a devouring lion. ³¹ If ye be the people of the LORD, then hearken unto his word: Am I then become a wilderness unto the people of Israel? Or a land that hath no light? Wherefore sayeth my people then, 'We are lords; and we will come no more unto thee'?

³³ Why boastest thou thy ways so highly, to obtain favour therethrough, when thou hast yet stained them with blasphemies?

¹ Commonly, when a man putteth away his wife, and she goeth from him, and marrieth with another, then the question is: should he resort unto her any more after that? Is not this field then defiled and unclean? But as for thee, thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, yet turn again to me, sayeth the LORD.

⁶ The LORD said also unto me, in the time of Josiah the king, "Hast thou seen what that shrinking Israel hath done? How she hath run up upon all high hills, and among all thick trees, and there played the harlot?

¹² and therefore go preach these words toward the north, and say, 'Thou shrinking Israel, turn again, sayeth the LORD; and I will not turn my face from you, for I am merciful, sayeth the LORD. And I will not always bear displeasure against thee: ¹³ but on this condition, that thou know thy great blasphemy: Namely, that thou hast unfaithfully forsaken the LORD thy God, and hast made thyself partaker of strange gods under all green trees, but hast had no will to hear my voice, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁴ O ye shrinking children, turn again, sayeth the LORD: and I will be married with you. For I will take one out of the city, and two out of one generation from among you, and bring you out of Zion:

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be helped. How long shall thy noisesome thoughts remain with thee?

¹⁷ They shall give them warning in every place, like as the watchmen in the field. For they have provoked me to wrath, sayeth the LORD.

²² "Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom."

³ Where as thou, O LORD, lookest only upon faith and truth. Thou hast scourged them, but they took no repentance: thou hast corrected them for amendment, but they refused thy correction. They made their faces harder than stone, and would not amend.

⁵ Therefore will I go unto their heads and rulers, and talk with them: if they know the way of the LORD, and the judgments of our God." But these, in like manner, have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds in sunder.

²⁸ hereof are they fat and wealthy, and are run away from me with shameful blasphemies. They minister not the law, they make no end of the fatherless cause, they judge not the poor according to equity. ²⁹ Should I not punish these things, sayeth the LORD? Should I not be avenged of all such people as these be?"

³¹ The Prophets teach falsely, and the priests follow them, and my people hath pleasure therein. What will come thereof at the last?

⁸ Amend thee, O Jerusalem, lest I withdraw my heart from thee, and make thee desolate: and thy land also, that no man dwell in it."

¹⁴ And beside that, they heal the hurt of my people with sweet words, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace at all.

¹⁹ Hear thou earth also: behold, I will cause a plague come upon this people, even the fruit of their own imaginations. For they have not been obedient unto my words and to my law, but abhorred them. ²⁰ Wherefore bring ye me incense from Sheba, and sweet smelling Calamus from far countries? Your burnt offerings displease me, and I rejoice not in your sacrifices.

²⁸ For they are all unfaithful and fallen away, they hang upon filthy lucre; they are clean brass and iron, for they hurt and destroyed every man. ²⁹ The bellows are burnt in the fire, the lead is consumed, the melter melteth in vain, for the evil is not taken away from them.

²⁹ The bellows are burnt in the fire, the lead is consumed, the melter melteth in vain, for the evil is not taken away from them. ³⁰ Therefore shall they be called reprobate silver, because the LORD hath cast them out."

⁸ But take heed: ye trust in counsels that beguile you and do you no good. ⁹ For when ye have stolen, murdered, committed adultery and penury; When ye have offered unto Baal, following strange and unknown gods; ¹⁰ Then come ye, and stand before me in this house, which hath my name given unto it, and say 'Tush, we are absolved quite, though we have done all these abominations.'

¹⁹ Howbeit, they hurt not me," sayeth the LORD, "but rather confound, and shame themselves."

²¹ Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "Yea, heap up your burnt offerings with your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.

²⁶ yet would they not hearken, nor offer me their ears; but were obstinate and worse than their fathers.

⁷ The Stork knoweth her appointed time; the Turtledove, the Swallow and the Crane consider the time of their travail: but my people will not know the time of the punishment of the LORD.

²¹ I am sore vexed, because of the hurt of my people: I am heavy and abashed, ²² for there is no more treacle at Gilead, and there is no Physician, that can heal the hurt of my people.

³ They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD.

³ They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD. ⁴ Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another. ⁵ Yea, one dissesembleth with another, and they deal with no truth. They have practiced their tongues to lie, and taken great pains to do mischief. ⁶ They have set their stole in the midst of deceit, and for very dissembling falsity they will not know me, sayeth the LORD. ⁷ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "Behold, I will melt them, and try them, for what should I else do to my people?

²⁶ The Egyptians, the Jews, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the shaven Midianites that dwell in the wilderness. For all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in the flesh, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart."

⁸ They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

¹⁴ His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all casters of images, for that they cast is but a vain thing, and hath no life.

¹⁵ Be obedient, give ear, take no disdain at it, for it is the LORD himself that speaketh!

¹² For though they fast, I will not hear their prayers. And though they offer burnt offerings and sacrifices, yet will not I accept them. For I will destroy them with the sword, hunger, and pestilence."

¹¹ Then make thou them this answer: Because your fathers have forsaken me, sayeth the LORD, and have cleaved unto strange gods, whom they have honored and worshiped: but me have they forsaken, and have not kept my law. ¹² And ye, with your shameful blasphemies, have exceeded the wickedness of your fathers. For every one of you followeth the froward and evil imagination of his own heart, and is not obedient unto me.

⁵ Thus sayeth the LORD, "Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, and that taketh flesh for his arm: and he, whose heart departeth from the LORD. ⁶ He shall be like the heath that groweth in the wilderness. As for the good thing that is for to come, he shall not see it: but dwell in a dry place of the wilderness, in a salt and unoccupied land."

³ Thus the LORD commandeth: Keep equity and righteousness, deliver the oppressed from the power of the violent: do not grieve nor oppress the stranger, the fatherless nor the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

¹⁵ Thinkest thou to reign, now that thou provokest me to wrath with thy Cedar trees? Did not thy father eat and drink, and prosper well, as long as he dealt with equity and righteousness? ¹⁶ Yea when he helped the oppressed and poor to their right, then prospered he well. From whence came this? But only because he had me before his eyes, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

²⁹ O thou earth, earth, earth: hear the word of the LORD!

¹⁴ I have seen also among the Prophets of Jerusalem foul adultery, and presumptuous lies. They take the most shameful men by the hand, flattering them, so that they cannot return from their wickedness. All these with their citizens are, unto me, as Sodom and as the inhabiters of Gomorrah."

¹⁶ And therefore the LORD of Hosts giveth you this warning, "Hear not the words of the prophets, that preach unto you, and deceive you: for they speak the meaning of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

⁵ He said, 'Turn again every man from his evil way, and from your wicked imaginations, and so shall ye dwell forever in the land that the LORD promised you and your forefathers:

¹² Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Thy bruisings are perilous, and thy wounds ready to cast thee into sickness.

⁹ They departed from hence in heaviness, but with joy will I bring them hither again. I will lead them by the rivers of water in a straight way, where they shall not stumble: For I will be Israel's father, and Ephraim shall be my firstborn.

¹² And they shall come, and rejoice upon the hill of Zion, and shall have plenteousness of goods, which the LORD shall give them: Namely, wheat, wine, oil, young sheep and calves. And their conscience shall be as a well-watered garden, for they shall no more be hungry.

¹⁸ Moreover, I heard Ephraim, that was led away captive, complain on this manner, 'O LORD, thou hast corrected me, and thy chastening have I received, as an untamed calf. Convert thou me, and I shall be converted, for thou art my LORD God. ¹⁹ Yea, as soon as thou turnest me, I shall reform myself: and when I understand, I shall smite upon my thigh. For verily I have committed shameful things: O let my youth bear this reproof and confusion.' ²⁰ Upon this complaint, I thought thus by myself: Is not Ephraim my dear son? Is he not the child, with whom I have had all mirth and pastime? For since the time that I first communed with him, I have him ever in remembrance: therefore my very heart driveth me unto him; gladly and lovingly will I have mercy upon him, sayeth the LORD.

²³ For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: It will come thereto, that when I have brought Judah out of captivity, these words shall be heard in the land and in his cities, 'The LORD, which is the fair bridegroom of righteousness, make thee fruitful O thou holy hill!'

⁶ Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will heal their wounds and make them whole: I will open them the treasure of peace and truth. ⁷ And I will return the captivity of Judah and Israel: and will set them up again as they were afore.

¹¹ Shall the voice of gladness be heard again; the voice of the Bridegroom and of the bride; the voice of them that shall sing, 'Praise the LORD of Hosts, for he is loving and his mercy endureth forever,' and the voice of them that shall offer up gifts in the house of the LORD. For I will restore the captivity of this land, as it was afore, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁵ Behold, the days will come saith the LORD, that I will stir up unto David a righteous branch, and he shall reign a king, and shall be wise, and shall do equity and justice in the earth. ¹⁶ And in his days Judah shall be safe, and Israel shall dwell without fear. And this is the name that they shall call him: 'The LORD our righteousness.' ¹⁷ "For thus the LORD promiseth: David shall never want one to sit upon the stool of the house of Israel:

²⁹ 'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel.

³⁴ But their avenger and redeemer is mighty, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: he shall maintain their cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therein, one with another.

⁵ As for Israel and Judah, they shall not be forsaken of their God, of the LORD of Hosts, of the holy one of Israel: no, though they have filled all their land full of sin.

⁸ {Khet} Jerusalem sinned ever more and more, therefore is she come in decay. All they that had her in honour, despise her: for they have seen her filthiness. Yea she sigheth and is ashamed of herself. ⁹ {Tet} Her skirts are defiled, she remembered not what would follow: therefore is her fall so great, and there is no man to comfort her. O LORD, consider my trouble, for my enemy hath the upper hand.

¹ {Aleph} Alas, how hath the LORD darkened the daughter of Zion so sore in his wrath? As for the honour of Israel, he hath casten it down from heaven: How happeneth it, that he remembered not his own foot stool when he was angry?

⁶ {Vav} Her tabernacle - which was like a garden of pleasure - hath he destroyed; her high solemn feasts hath he put down. The LORD hath brought it so to pass, that the high solemn feasts and Sabbaths in Zion are clean forgotten. In his heavy displeasure hath he made the king and priests to be despised.

²² {Khet} Namely, that the mercies of the LORD are not clean gone, and that his loving-kindness ceaseth not.

¹ {Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street? ² {Beth} The children of Zion that were always in honour, and clothed with the most precious gold: how are they now become like the earthen vessels which be made with the potter's hand?

⁶ {Vav} The sin of the daughter of my people is become greater than the wickedness of Sodom, that suddenly was destroyed, and not taken with hands.

² Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, and our houses to the aliens.

¹³ Thus will I perform my indignation and set my wrath against them, and ease myself. So that when I have fulfilled mine anger against them, they shall know that I am the LORD, which with a fervent jealousy have spoken it.

⁸ "Those that among you have escaped the sword, will I leave among the Gentiles, for I will scatter you among the nations.

¹³ And so shall ye learn to know that I am the LORD, when your slain men lie among your gods, and about your altars; upon all high hills and tops of mountains; among all green trees; among all thick oaks; even in the places where they did sacrifice to all their idols.

¹⁷ And he said unto me, "Hast thou seen this thou son of man? Thinketh the house of Israel that it is but a trifle to do these abominations here? Should they fill the land full of wickedness, and undertake to provoke me unto anger? Yea, and purposely to cast up their noses upon me? ¹⁸ Therefore will I also do something in my wrathful displeasure: so that mine eye shall not oversee them, neither will I spare them. Yea, and though they cry in mine ears with loud voice, yet will I not hear them."

²² yet shall there be a remnant saved therein, which shall bring forth their sons and daughters. Behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way, and what they take in hand, and ye shall be comforted, as touching all the plagues that I have brought upon Jerusalem.

¹ Again, the word of the LORD spake unto me, saying, ² "Thou son of man, show the city of Jerusalem their abominations, ³ and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God unto Jerusalem: Thy progeny and kindred came out of the land of Canaan, thy father was an Amorite, thy mother a Hittite. ⁴ In the day of thy birth when thou wast born, the string of thy navel was not cut off; thou wast not bathed in water to make thee clean; thou wast neither rubbed with salt, nor swaddled in clouts; ⁵ No man regarded that so much, as to do any of these things for thee, or to show thee such favour, but thou wast utterly cast out upon the field: yea, despised wast thou in the day of thy birth. ⁶ "'Then came I by thee, and saw thee trodden down in thine own blood, and said unto thee, 'Thou shalt be purged from thine own blood; from thine own blood, I say, shalt thou be cleansed.'

⁶ "'Then came I by thee, and saw thee trodden down in thine own blood, and said unto thee, 'Thou shalt be purged from thine own blood; from thine own blood, I say, shalt thou be cleansed.' ⁷ So I planted thee, as the blossom of the field. Thou art grown up, and waxen great: thou hast gotten a marvelous pleasant beauty, thy breasts are come up, thy hair is goodly grown; whereas thou wast naked and bare afore.

⁷ So I planted thee, as the blossom of the field. Thou art grown up, and waxen great: thou hast gotten a marvelous pleasant beauty, thy breasts are come up, thy hair is goodly grown; whereas thou wast naked and bare afore. ⁸ Now when I went by thee, and looked upon thee: behold, thy time was come; yea, even the time to vow thee. Then spread I my clothes over thee, to cover thy dishonesty: Yea, I made an oath unto thee, and married myself with thee, sayeth the LORD God; and so thou becamest mine own.

⁸ Now when I went by thee, and looked upon thee: behold, thy time was come; yea, even the time to vow thee. Then spread I my clothes over thee, to cover thy dishonesty: Yea, I made an oath unto thee, and married myself with thee, sayeth the LORD God; and so thou becamest mine own. ⁹ Then washed I thee with water, and purged thy blood from thee; I anointed thee with oil,

⁹ Then washed I thee with water, and purged thy blood from thee; I anointed thee with oil, ¹⁰ I gave thee change of raiments; I made thee shoes of Taxus leather; I girded thee about with white silk; I clothed thee with kerchiefs;

¹⁰ I gave thee change of raiments; I made thee shoes of Taxus leather; I girded thee about with white silk; I clothed thee with kerchiefs; ¹¹ I decked thee with costly apparel; I put rings upon thy fingers,

¹¹ I decked thee with costly apparel; I put rings upon thy fingers, ¹² a chain about thy neck, spangles upon thy forehead, earrings upon thine ears, and set a beautiful crown upon thine head.

¹² a chain about thy neck, spangles upon thy forehead, earrings upon thine ears, and set a beautiful crown upon thine head. ¹³ Thus wast thou decked with silver and gold, and thy raiment was of fine white silk, of needle work and divers colors. Thou didst eat nothing but simnels, honey and oil: marvelous goodly wast thou, and beautiful, yea even a very Queen wast thou.

¹³ Thus wast thou decked with silver and gold, and thy raiment was of fine white silk, of needle work and divers colors. Thou didst eat nothing but simnels, honey and oil: marvelous goodly wast thou, and beautiful, yea even a very Queen wast thou. ¹⁴ Insomuch, that thy beauty was spoken of among the Heathen, for thou wast excellent in my beauty, which I put upon thee, sayeth the LORD God.

¹⁴ Insomuch, that thy beauty was spoken of among the Heathen, for thou wast excellent in my beauty, which I put upon thee, sayeth the LORD God. ¹⁵ "'But thou hast put confidence in thine own beauty, and played the harlot, when thou hadst gotten thee a name. Thou hast committed whoredom with all that went by thee, and hast fulfilled their desires: ¹⁶ Yea, thou hast taken thy garments of divers colors, and decked thine altars therewith, whereupon thou mightest fulfill thine whoredom, of such a fashion as never was done, nor shall be. ¹⁷ The goodly ornaments and Jewels which I gave thee of mine own gold and silver, hast thou taken, and made thee men's images thereof, and committed whoredom withal. ¹⁸ Thy garments of divers colors hast thou taken, and decked them therewith: mine oil and incense hast thou set before them. ¹⁹ My meat which I gave thee, as simnels, oil and honey to feed thee withal, that hast thou set before them, for a sweet savour. And this came also to pass, sayeth the LORD God. ²⁰ Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou, ²¹ that thou slayest my children, and givest them over to be burnt unto them? ²² And yet in all thy abominations and whoredom, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth:, how naked and bare thou wast at that time, and trodden down in thine own blood. ²³ After all these thy wickednesses, woe, woe unto thee, sayeth the LORD. ²⁴ Thou hast builded thy stews and brothel houses in every place: yea, at the head of every street hast thou builded thee an altar. ²⁵ Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast laid out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thine whoredom. ²⁶ Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, which had much flesh: and thus hast thou used thine whoredom to anger me. ²⁷ Behold, I will stretch out mine hand over thee, and will diminish thy store of food, and deliver thee over into the wiles of the Philistines thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abominable way. ²⁸ Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, which might not satisfy thee. Yea, thou hast played the harlot, and not had enough. ²⁹ Thus hast thou still committed thy fornication from the land of Canaan unto the Chaldeans, and yet thy lust not satisfied. ³⁰ How should I circumcise thine heart, sayeth the LORD God, seeing thou doest all these things, thou precious whore? ³¹ Building thy stews at the head of every street, and thy brothel houses in all places? Thou hast not been as another whore, that maketh boast of her winning; ³² but as a wife that breaketh wedlock, and taketh other instead of her husband. ³³ Gifts are given to all other whores, but thou givest rewards unto all thy lovers; and offerest them gifts, to come unto thee out of all places and to commit fornication with thee.

³³ Gifts are given to all other whores, but thou givest rewards unto all thy lovers; and offerest them gifts, to come unto thee out of all places and to commit fornication with thee. ³⁴ It is come to pass with thee in thy whoredoms, contrary to the use of other women: yea, there hath no such fornication been committed after thee, seeing that thou profferest gifts unto other, and no regard is given thee. This is a contrary thing. ³⁵ "'Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O thou harlot. ³⁶ Thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast spent thy money, and discovered thy shame - through thy whoredom with all thy lovers, and with all the Idols of thy abominations, in the blood of thy children whom thou hast given them - ³⁷ Behold therefore, I will gather together all thy lovers, unto whom thou hast made thy self common. Yea, and all them whom thou favourest, and euery one that thou hatest: and will uncover thy shame before them, that they all may see thy filthiness. ³⁸ Moreover, I will judge thee as a breaker of wedlock and a murderer, and recompense thee thine own blood in wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ I will give thee over into their power, that shall break down thy stews, and destroy thy brothel houses: they shall strip thee out of thy clothes, all thy fair and beautiful Jewels shall they take from thee, and so let thee sit naked and bare. ⁴⁰ Yea, they shall bring the common people upon thee, which shall stone thee, and slay thee down with their swords. ⁴¹ They shall burn up thy houses, and punish thee in the sight of many women. Thus will I make thy whoredom to cease, so that thou shalt give out no more rewards. ⁴² Should I make my wrath to be still, take my jealousy from thee, be content, and no more to be displeased?

⁴² Should I make my wrath to be still, take my jealousy from thee, be content, and no more to be displeased? ⁴³ Seeing thou rememberest not the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me to wrath in all these things? Behold therefore, I will bring thine own ways upon thine head, sayeth the LORD God: howbeit, I never did unto thee, according to thy wickedness and all thy abominations. ⁴⁴ "'Behold, all they that use common proverbs, shall use this proverb also against thee: 'Like mother, like daughter.' ⁴⁵ Thou art even thy mother's own daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children. Yea, thou art the sister of thy sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Thine eldest sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell upon thy left hand. But thy youngest sister that dwelleth on thy righthand, is Sodom and her daughters.

⁴⁶ Thine eldest sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell upon thy left hand. But thy youngest sister that dwelleth on thy righthand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they. ⁴⁸ As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, Sodom thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil as thou and thy daughters. ⁴⁹ Behold, the sins of thy sister Sodom, were these: Pride, fullness of meat, abundance and Idleness: these things had she and her daughters. Besides that, they reached not their hand to the poor and needy,

⁴⁹ Behold, the sins of thy sister Sodom, were these: Pride, fullness of meat, abundance and Idleness: these things had she and her daughters. Besides that, they reached not their hand to the poor and needy, ⁵⁰ but were proud - And did abominable things before me, wherefore I took them away when I had seen it. ⁵¹ Neither hath Samaria done half of thy sins. Yea, thou hast exceeded them in wickedness: Insomuch that in comparison of all the abominations which thou hast done, thou hast made thy sisters good women. ⁵² Therefore thou which didst condemn thy sister: bear thine own shame, for thine own offences that thou hast committed - more abominable than they did, which indeed are more righteous than thou art. Be thou, I say, ashamed; and bear thy shameful rebuke, seeing that thou has proven thy sisters in comparison of the righteous. ⁵³ As for their captivity, namely the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters: I will bring them again. So will I also bring again thy captivity among them: ⁵⁴ that thou mayest take thine own confusion upon thee, and be ashamed of all that thou hast done, and to comfort them. ⁵⁵ Thus thy sisters, namely Sodom and her daughters, Samaria and her daughters, with thyself and thy daughters, shall be brought again to your old estate. ⁵⁶ When thou wast in thy pride, ⁵⁷ and before thy wickedness came to light: thou wouldest not hear speak of thy sister Sodom, until the time that the Syrians with all their towns, and the Philistines, with all that lie round about them, brought thee to shame and confusion: ⁵⁸ that thou mightest bear thine own filthiness and abomination, sayeth the LORD. ⁵⁹ For thus sayeth the LORD God: I should, by right, deal with thee, as thou hast done. Thou hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant. ⁶⁰ "'Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant that I made with thee in thy youth, insomuch that it shall be an everlasting covenant: ⁶¹ So that thou also remember thy ways, and be ashamed of them. Then shalt thou receive of me thy elder and younger sisters, whom I will make thy daughters: and that beside thy covenant. ⁶² And so I will renew my covenant with thee, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD: ⁶³ That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"

⁶³ That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"

⁹ Speak thou therefore, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Shall this vine prosper? Shall not his roots be plucked out, his fruit be broken off, his green branches wither and fade away? Yea without either strong armies or many people, shall it be plucked up by the roots. ¹⁰ Behold, it was planted: shall it prosper therefore? Shall it not be dried up and withered, yea even in the shooting out of his blossoms, as soon as the east wind bloweth?'"

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know, that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, and set the low tree up: that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: Even I the LORD that spake it, have also brought it to pass.'"

³⁰ "As for me, I will judge every man, according to his ways, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD God. Wherefore be converted, and turn you clean from all your wickedness, so shall there no sin do you harm. ³¹ Cast away from you all your ungodliness that ye have done: make you new hearts and a new spirit. Wherefore will ye die, O ye house of Israel?

⁵ "'In the day when I chose Israel, and lift up mine hand upon the seed of the house of Jacob, and showed myself unto them in the land of Egypt; Yea, when I lift up mine hand over them, and said, 'I am the LORD your God,' ⁶ even in the day that I lift up mine hand over them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land that I have provided for them, which floweth with milk and honey, and it is a pleasant land among all others: ⁷ Then said I unto them, 'Cast away every man the abominations that he hath before him, and defile not yourselves with the Idols of Egypt, for I am the LORD your God.' ⁸ But they rebelled against me, and would not follow me: to cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and to forsake the Idols of Egypt. Then I made me to pour my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them: Yea, even in the midst of the land of Egypt. ⁹ But I would not do it, for my name's sake: that it should not be unhallowed before the Heathen, among whom they dwelt, and among whom I showed myself unto them, that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ "'Now when I had carried them out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness, ¹¹ I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them. ¹² I gave them also my holy days, to be a token betwixt me and them, and thereby to know that I am the LORD which halloweth them. ¹³ And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They would not walk in my commandments; they have cast away my laws, which whoso keepeth should live in them; and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness. ¹⁴ Yet I would not do it, for my name's sake: lest it should be dishonored before the Heathen, from the which I had carried them away. ¹⁵ But I swore unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land, which I gave them: a land that floweth with milk and honey, and is a pleasure of all lands. ¹⁶ And that because they refused my laws, and walked not in my commandments, but had unhallowed my Sabbaths - for their heart was gone after their Idols. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, mine eye spared them, so that I would not utterly slay them, and consume them in the wilderness. ¹⁸ Moreover, I said unto their sons in the wilderness, 'Walk not in the statutes of your forefathers; keep not their ordinances, and defile not yourselves with their idols, ¹⁹ for I am the LORD your God. But walk in my statutes; keep my laws and do them; ²⁰ hallow my Sabbaths: for they are a token betwixt me and you, that ye may know how that I am the LORD.' ²¹ Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness. ²² Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand for my name's sake, lest it should be unhallowed among the Heathen, before whom I had brought them forth. ²³ I lift up mine hand over them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Heathen, and straw them among the nations: ²⁴ because they had not kept my laws, but cast aside my commandments, unhallowed my Sabbaths, and lift up their eyes to their fathers' Idols. ²⁵ Wherefore I gave them also commandments that were not good, and laws through the which they should not live, ²⁶ and I unhallowed them in their own gifts when I appointed for myself all their firstborn, to make them desolate: that they might know, how that I am the LORD.' ²⁷ "Therefore, O thou son of man, tell the house of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Beside all this, your forefathers have yet blasphemed me more, and greatly offended against me. ²⁸ For after I had brought them into the land that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made there offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet savours there, and poured out their drink offerings. ²⁹ Then I ask them, 'What is that hill altar that you go to it?' And therefore is it called Bamah unto this day. ³⁰ Wherefore, speak unto the house of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Ye are even as unclean as your forefathers, and commit whoredom also with their abominations. ³¹ In all your idols, whereunto ye bring your oblations, and to whose honour ye burn your children: ye defile yourselves, even unto this day. How dare ye then come, and ask any question at me? O ye household of Israel: As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, ye get no answer of me. ³² And as for the thing that ye go about, it shall not come to pass, whereas ye say, 'We will be as the Heathen, and do as other people in the land: wood and stone will we worship.'

³⁸ The forsakers also and the transgressors will I take from among you, and bring them out of the land of your habitations: As for the land of Israel, they shall not come in it: that they may know how that I am the LORD. ³⁹ Go now then, sayeth the LORD God: ye house of Israel, cast away, and destroy every man his Idols. Then shall ye hear me, and no more blaspheme my holy name with your offerings and Idols.

⁴⁷ and say to the wood toward the south, 'Hear the word of the LORD, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, that shall consume thee green trees with the dry. No man shall be able to quench his flame, but all that looketh from the south to the north shall be burnt therein. ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see, that I the LORD have kindled it, so that no man may quench it.'"

¹⁷ I will smite my hands together also and satisfy my wrathful indignation: Even I the LORD have said it."

¹ Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, and said, ² "Thou son of man, wilt thou not reprove this bloodthirsty city? Show them their abominations, ³ and tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: O thou city, that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come also: and makest thee Idols to defile thee withal. ⁴ Thou hast made thyself guilty in the blood that thou hast shed, and defiled thee in the Idols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy days to draw nigh, and made the time of thy years to come. Therefore will I make thee to be confounded among the heathen, and to be despised in all the lands. ⁵ Whether they be nigh or far from thee, they shall laugh thee to scorn; thou that hast gotten thee so foul a name, and art full of mischief. ⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel have brought every man his power, to shed blood in thee.

⁶ Behold, the rulers of Israel have brought every man his power, to shed blood in thee. ⁷ In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

⁷ In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless. ⁸ Thou hast despised my Sanctuary, and unhallowed my Sabbath.

⁸ Thou hast despised my Sanctuary, and unhallowed my Sabbath. ⁹ Murderers are there in thee, that shed blood, and eat upon the hills, and in thee they use unhappiness.

⁹ Murderers are there in thee, that shed blood, and eat upon the hills, and in thee they use unhappiness. ¹⁰ In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness.

¹⁰ In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness. ¹¹ Every man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbour's wife, and abominably defiled his daughter-in-law. In thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father's daughter.

¹¹ Every man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbour's wife, and abominably defiled his daughter-in-law. In thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father's daughter. ¹² Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God.

¹² Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God. ¹³ Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee. ¹⁴ Is thy heart able to endure it, or may thy hands defend themselves, in the time that I shall bring upon thee? Even I the LORD that speak it, will bring it also to pass. ¹⁵ I will scatter thee among the heathen, and straw thee about in the lands, and will cause thy filthiness to cease out of thee. ¹⁶ Yea, and I will have thee in possession in the sight of the Heathen, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD.'" ¹⁷ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ¹⁸ "Thou son of man, the house of Israel is turned to dross. All they that should be brass, tin, iron and lead, are in the fire become dross.

¹⁸ "Thou son of man, the house of Israel is turned to dross. All they that should be brass, tin, iron and lead, are in the fire become dross. ¹⁹ Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as ye all are turned into dross, behold: I will bring you together unto Jerusalem,

¹⁹ Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as ye all are turned into dross, behold: I will bring you together unto Jerusalem, ²⁰ like as silver, and brass, iron, tin, and lead, are put together in the furnace and the fire blown there under to melt them: Even so will I gather you, put you in together, and melt you in my wrath and indignation.

²⁰ like as silver, and brass, iron, tin, and lead, are put together in the furnace and the fire blown there under to melt them: Even so will I gather you, put you in together, and melt you in my wrath and indignation.

²⁰ like as silver, and brass, iron, tin, and lead, are put together in the furnace and the fire blown there under to melt them: Even so will I gather you, put you in together, and melt you in my wrath and indignation. ²¹ I will bring you together, and kindle the fire of my cruel displeasure under you, that ye may be melted therein.

²¹ I will bring you together, and kindle the fire of my cruel displeasure under you, that ye may be melted therein. ²² Like as the silver is melted in the fire, so shall ye also be melted therein: that ye may know, how that I the LORD have poured my wrath upon you."

²² Like as the silver is melted in the fire, so shall ye also be melted therein: that ye may know, how that I the LORD have poured my wrath upon you."

²² Like as the silver is melted in the fire, so shall ye also be melted therein: that ye may know, how that I the LORD have poured my wrath upon you." ²³ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

¹³ Thy filthiness is abominable, for I would have cleansed thee, but thou wouldest not be cleansed. Thou canst not be purged from thine uncleanness, till I have poured my wrathful indignation upon thee.

¹² I will dry up their floods of water, and sell the land into the hands of wicked people. The land and all that is therein, will I destroy through the enemies. Even I the LORD have said it.

⁴ The waters made him great, and the deep set him up on high. Round about the roots of him ran there floods of water; he sent out his little rivers unto all the trees of the field. ⁵ Therefore was he higher than all the trees of the field, and through the multitude of waters that he sent from him, he obtained many and long branches. ⁶ All fowls of the air made their nests in his branches, under his boughs gendered all these beasts of the field, and under his shadow dwelt all people. ⁷ Fair and beautiful was he in his greatness and in the length of his branches, for his root stood beside great waters; ⁸ no Cedar tree might hide him. In the pleasant garden of God, there was no fir tree like his branches, the plain trees were not like the boughs of him. All the trees in the garden of God might not be compared unto him in his beauty: ⁹ So fair and goodly had I made him with the multitude of his branches: Insomuch that all the trees in the pleasant garden of God, had envy at him. ¹⁰ "'Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as he hath lift up himself so high, and stretched his top into the clouds, and seeing his heart is proud in his highness: ¹¹ I will deliver him into the hands of the mightiest among the Heathen, which shall root him out. According to his wickedness will I cast him away. ¹² The enemies shall destroy him, and the mighty men of the Heathen shall so scatter him, that his branches shall lie upon all mountains and in all valleys: his boughs shall be broken down to the ground throughout the land. Then all the people of the land shall go from his shadow, and forsake him. ¹³ When he is fallen, all the fowls of the air shall sit upon him, and all wild beasts of the field shall go about among his branches: ¹⁴ so that from henceforth, no tree in the water shall attain to his highness, nor reach his top unto the clouds, neither shall any tree of the water stand so high, as he hath done. For unto death shall they all be delivered under the earth, and go down to the grave, like other men. ¹⁵ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: In the day when he goeth down to the grave, I will cause a lamentation to be made, I will cover the deep upon him, I will staunch his floods, and the great waters shall be restrained. I shall cause Lebanon to be sorrowful for his sake, and all the trees of the field shall be smitten. ¹⁶ I will make the Heathen shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell, with them that descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, with all the chosen and best trees of Lebanon, yea, and all they that are planted upon the waters, shall mourn with him also in the lower habitations: ¹⁷ for they shall go down to hell with him, unto them that be slain with the sword, which dwelt afore under the shadow of his arm among the Heathen. ¹⁸ To whom shalt thou be likened, that art so glorious and great, among the trees of Eden? Yet art thou cast down under the earth, among the trees of Eden, where thou must lie among the uncircumcised, with them that be slain with the sword. Even thus is it with Pharaoh and all his people, sayeth the LORD God.'"

²¹ The mighty worthies and his helpers, that be gone down and lie with the uncircumcised and with them that be slain with the sword: shall speak to him out of the hell.

²³ I will raise up to them one only shepherd: even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. ²⁴ I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David shall be their prince: Even I the LORD have spoken it.

⁴ Therefore, hear the word of the LORD God, O ye mountains of Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD God unto the mountains, and hills; valleys and dales; to the void wilderness and desolate cities, which are spoiled and had in derision on every side among the residue of the Heathen.

³¹ Then shall ye remember your own wicked ways, and your imaginations, which were not good: so that ye shall take displeasure at your own selves, by reason of your sins and abominations.

²⁴ David my servant shall be their king, and they all shall have one shepherd only. They shall walk in my laws, and my commandments shall they both keep and fulfill. ²⁵ They shall dwell in the land that I gave unto Jacob my servant, whereas your fathers also have dwelt. Yea even in the same land shall they, their children, and their children's children dwell for evermore: and my servant David shall be their everlasting prince.

⁸ This shall be his own land in Israel, that my princes be no more chargeable unto my people. And such as remaineth yet over in the land, shall be given unto the house of Israel according to their tribes.

²⁷ Wherefore, O king, be content with my counsel, that thou mayest lose thy sins with righteousness, and thine offenses with mercy to poor people: for such things shall prolong thy peace."

⁵ We have sinned, we have offended, we have been disobedient and gone back: yea, we have departed from all thy precepts and judgments. ⁶ We would never follow thy servants the Prophets, that spake in thy name to our kings and princes, to our forefathers, and to all the people of the land.

⁸ Yea O LORD: Unto us, to our kings and princes, to our forefathers, even to us all that have offended thee, belongeth open shame. ⁹ But unto thee O LORD our God, pertaineth mercy and forgiveness. As for us, we are gone back from him, ¹⁰ and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he laid before us by his servants the Prophets. ¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed, and gone back from thy law, so that they have not hearkened unto thy voice. Wherefore the curse and oath, that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, against whom we have offended, is poured upon us.

¹ This is the word of the LORD, that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah kings of Judah: and in the time of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel.

¹³ They make sacrifices upon the high mountains, and burn their incense upon the hills, yea among the oaks, groves and bushes, for there are good shadows. Therefore your daughters are become harlots, and your spouses have broken their wedlock.

¹⁸ Their drunkenness hath put them back, and brought them to whoredom. Their rulers love rewards; "Bring," say they, to their own shame.

¹² Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as a caterpillar. ¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his disease: Ephraim went unto Assyria, and sent unto king Jareb: yet could not he help you, nor ease you of your pain.

⁴ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, how shall I entreat thee? Seeing your love is like a morning cloud, and like a dew that goeth early away.

³ They make the king and the princes, to have pleasure in their wickedness and lies. ⁴ All these burn in adultery, as it were an oven that the baker heateth when he hath left kneading, till the dough be leavened. ⁵ Even so goeth it this day with our kings and princes, for they begin to be wood drunken through wine: they use familiarity with such as deceive them.

⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength, yet he regardeth it not: he waxeth full of gray hairs, yet will he not know it.

⁷ They have sown wind, therefore shall they reap a whirlwind. Their seed shall bear no corn, there shall no meal be made of their increase: though they reap, yet shall strangers devour it up.

¹⁵ All their wickedness is done at Gilgal, there do I abhor them. For the ungraciousness of their own inventions, I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more, for all their princes are unfaithful.

¹² But Ephraim goeth about me with lies, and the house of Israel dissembleth. Only Judah holdeth him with God, and with the true holy things.

¹ Turn Israel unto the LORD thy God: For thou art fallen for thy wickednesses' sake. ² Take words with you and turn unto the Lord. And say unto him, "Remit all wickedness and given things, and we will pay thee openly ³ Assyria shall not save us, neither will we ride on horses: neither will we say to the works of our own hands, 'Ye are our Gods,' for thou hast compassion on the friendless.

³ Assyria shall not save us, neither will we ride on horses: neither will we say to the works of our own hands, 'Ye are our Gods,' for thou hast compassion on the friendless. ⁴ I will heal their obedience and will love them of mine own accord: for my wrath is ceased from them.

⁸ Ephraim, what have ye any more to do with idols? I have healed him and looked on him. I will be as a great fir tree, and of me shall thy fruit be found.

¹⁴ Proclaim a fasting, call the congregation, gather the elders and all the inhabiters of the land together in to the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.

¹⁵ Blow a trumpet in Zion, proclaim fasting and call a congregation.

²⁶ And ye shall eat and have enough and praise the name of the LORD your God, which hath wrought wonders with you. And my people shall not be in shame forever.

³² And the time shall come: that whosoever calleth upon the name of the LORD, shall be saved. For upon the mount Zion and at Jerusalem, there shall be a salvation, like as the LORD hath promised. Yea, and among the other remnant, whom the LORD shall call.

¹ These are the sermons that were showed unto Amos, which was one of the shepherds at Tekoa, upon Israel, in the time of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the time of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

¹³ Behold, I will crash you in sunder, like as a wain crasheth, that is full of sheaves:

¹ Hear, what the LORD speaketh unto you, O ye children of Israel: namely, unto all the tribes, whom I brought out of Egypt, and said,

⁸ When a lion roareth, who will not be afraid? Seeing then that the LORDE God himself speaketh, who will not prophesy?

¹¹ 'Some of you have I overthrown as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah: so that ye were as a brand plucked out of the fire. Yet will ye not turn unto me,' sayeth the LORD.

¹⁵ Hate the evil, and love the good. Set up right again in the port and, no doubt, the LORD God of hosts shall be merciful unto the remnant of Joseph.

²¹ "'I hate and abhor your holidays, and whereas ye cense me when ye come together I will not accept it.

⁷ O ye children of Israel, are ye not unto me, even as the Ethiopian?" sayeth the LORD, "Have not I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphthor, and the Syrians from Kir?

¹ This is the word of the LORD, that came to Micah the Morasthite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: which was showed him upon Samaria and Jerusalem. ² Hear all ye people, mark this well, O earth, and all that therein is: Yea, the LORD God himself be witness among you, even the Lord from his holy temple.

¹ Hear, O ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye leaders of the house of Israel: Should not ye know, what were lawful and right? ² But ye hate the good, and love the evil: ye pluck off men's skins, and the flesh from their bones; ³ ye eat the flesh of my people, and flay of their skin; ye break their bones, ye chop them in pieces as it were into a cauldron, and as flesh into a pot. ⁴ Now the time shall come, that when they call unto the LORD, he shall not hear them, but hide his face from them, because that through their own Imaginations they have dealt so wickedly.

⁸ As for me, I am full of strength, and of the spirit of the LORD; full of judgment and boldness, to show the house of Jacob their wickedness, and the house of Israel their sin.

⁸ As for me, I am full of strength, and of the spirit of the LORD; full of judgment and boldness, to show the house of Jacob their wickedness, and the house of Israel their sin. ⁹ O hear this, ye rulers of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: ye that abhor the thing that is lawful, and wrest aside the thing that is straight;

⁹ O hear this, ye rulers of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: ye that abhor the thing that is lawful, and wrest aside the thing that is straight; ¹⁰ Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong.

¹⁰ Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong. ¹¹ O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

¹¹ O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

¹¹ O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us." ¹² Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.

⁴ But every man shall sit under his vineyard and under his fig tree, and no man to fray him away: for the mouth of the LORD of Hosts hath spoken it.

¹ Hearken now what the LORD sayeth: Up, reprove the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. ² O hear the punishment of the LORD, ye mountains, and ye mighty foundations of the earth: for the LORD will reprove his people, and reason with Israel.

² O hear the punishment of the LORD, ye mountains, and ye mighty foundations of the earth: for the LORD will reprove his people, and reason with Israel.

⁷ Hath the LORD a pleasure in many thousand rams, or innumerable streams of oil? Or shall I give my firstborn for mine offenses, and the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" ⁸ I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.

³ yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.

¹⁸ Where is there such a God as thou? That pardonest wickedness, and forgivest the offenses of the remnant of thine heritage? He keepeth not his wrath for ever. And why? His delight is to have compassion. ¹⁹ He shall turn again, and be merciful to us: he shall put down our wickednesses, and cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea.

¹ This is the heavy burden of Nineveh, which Nahum of Elkosh did write, as he saw it.

¹⁹ Thy wound cannot be hid, thy plague is so sore. All they that hear this of thee, shall clap their hands over thee. For what is he, to whom thou hast not always been doing hurt?

² But the LORD answered me, and said, "Write the vision plainly upon thy tables, that whoso cometh by, may read it:

² O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in thy wrath remember mercy.

⁴ I will stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all such as dwell at Jerusalem. Thus will I root out the remnant of Baal from this place, and the names of the Chemarims and priests: ⁵ yea, and such as upon their house-tops worship and bow themselves unto the host of heaven: which swear by the LORD, and by their Milcom also: ⁶ which start back from the LORD, and neither seek after the LORD, nor regard him.

³ Yea, or the day of the LORD's sore displeasure come upon you. Seek the LORD, all ye meek hearted upon earth, ye that work after his judgment: seek righteousness, seek lowliness, that ye may be defended in the wrathful day of the LORD.

⁹ Therefore as truly as I live, sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and Ammon as Gomorrah: even dry thorn hedges, salt pits and perpetual wilderness. The residue of my folk shall spoil them, the remnant of my people shall have them in possession.

¹ Woe to the abominable, filthy and cruel city:

¹ Woe to the abominable, filthy and cruel city: ² which will not hear, nor be reformed. Her trust is not in the LORD, neither will she hold her to her God.

² which will not hear, nor be reformed. Her trust is not in the LORD, neither will she hold her to her God. ³ Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.

³ Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow. ⁴ Her prophets are light persons and unfaithful men: her priests unhallow the Sanctuary, and do wrong under the pretence of the law.

⁹ And then will I cleanse the lips of the people, that they may every each one call upon the name of the LORD, and serve him with one shoulder.

¹¹ In that time shalt thou no more be confounded, because of all thy imaginations, wherethrough thou hadst offended me: for I will take away the proud boasters of thine honour from thee, so that thou shalt no more triumph because of my holy hill.

¹³ The remnant of Israel shall do no wickedness, nor speak lies: neither shall there any deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. For they shall be fed, and take their rest, and no man shall make them afraid.

³ And say thou unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Turn you unto me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts; and I will turn me unto you, sayeth the LORD of Hosts. ⁴ Be not ye like your forefathers, unto whom the Prophets cried afore time, saying, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of hosts: Turn you from your evil ways, and from your wicked imaginations.' But they would not hear, nor regard me, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁰ "Shout and be glad, daughter of Zion! For behold, I come and dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD.

⁹ "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Execute true judgment, and show mercy and loving-kindness, every man to his brother. ¹⁰ Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."

¹⁰ Do the widow, the fatherless, the stranger, and poor no wrong: and let no man imagine evil against his brother in his heart."

¹³ And thus is it come to pass, that like as he spake and they would not hear: "Even so, they cried and I would not hear, sayeth the LORD of Hosts,

³ Thus saith the LORD: I will return to Zion and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called the city of truth and the hill of the LORD Sabaoth and a holy hill.

⁸ and will bring them that they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.

¹⁶ Now the things that ye shall do, are these: Speak every man the truth unto his neighbour, execute judgment truly, and peaceably within your ports,

⁹ Rejoice thou greatly, O daughter Zion; be glad, O daughter Jerusalem. For lo, thy King cometh unto thee, even the righteous and Saviour: Lowly and simple is he, he rideth upon an ass, and upon the foal of an ass.

⁸ Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.

⁷ "Arise, O thou sword, upon my shepherd, and upon the prince of my people, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad, and so will I turn mine hand to the little ones. ⁸ And it shall come to pass, sayeth the LORD, that in all the land two parts shall be rooted out, but the third part shall remain therein. ⁹ And the same third part will I bring through the fire, and will cleanse them, as the silver is cleansed: Yea and try them, like as gold is tried. Then shall they call upon my name, and I will hear them: I will say, 'It is my people.' And they shall say, 'LORD, my God.'"

⁶ "Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'

¹⁰ Yea, what is he among you, that will do so much as to shut the doors, or to kindle the fire upon mine altar for naught? I have no pleasure in you, sayeth the LORD of Hosts: and as for the meat offering, I will not accept it at your hand.

¹⁷ Ye grieve the LORD with your words, and yet ye say, 'Wherewithal have we grieved him?' In this, that ye say: 'All that do evil are good in the sight of God, and such please him.' Or else where is the God that punisheth?

³ And he shall sit trying and purging silver, and shall purify the sons of Levi, and shall fine them as gold and silver. And they shall bring offering unto the LORD of righteousness.

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

¹ For mark, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven: and all the proud, yea and all such as do wickedness, shall be straw: and the day that is for to come, shall burn them up, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. ² But unto you that fear my name, shall the Son of righteousness arise, and health shall be under his wings: ye shall go forth, and multiply as the fat calves.

⁷ When he saw many of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, "O generation of vipers, who hath taught you to flee from the vengeance to come? ⁸ Bring forth therefore the fruits belonging to repentance:

¹⁰ Even now is the axe put unto the root of the trees: so that every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

¹² Which hath also his fan in his hand, and will purge his floor, and gather the wheat into His garner; and will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire."

⁷ "And when ye pray, babble not much, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard, for their much babbling's sake.

¹⁴ But strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

¹² When Jesus heard that, he said unto them, "The whole need not the physician, but they that are sick. ¹³ Go and learn, what that meaneth: 'I have pleasure in mercy, and not in offering.' For I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."

²⁸ Come unto me all ye that labor, and are laden, and I will ease you.

¹³ Therefore speak I to them in similitudes: For though they see, they see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither understand. ¹⁴ And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which prophecy saith, 'With the ears ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and with the eyes ye shall see, and shall not perceive." ¹⁵ For this people's hearts are waxed gross. And their ears were dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their hearts, and should turn, that I might heal them.

¹⁹ Whosoever heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the evil man, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. And this is he which was sown by the wayside.

⁹ But in vain they worship me, teaching doctrines which are nothing but men's precepts.'"

⁹ And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, "See that ye tell the vision to no man, till the son of man be risen again from death."

¹³ And said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.'"

¹⁹ and spied a fig tree in the way, and came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said to it, "Never fruit grow on thee hence forwards." And anon the fig tree withered away.

²⁸ "What say ye to this? A certain man had two sons, and came to the elder and said, 'Son, go and work today in my vineyard.' ²⁹ He answered and said, 'I will not.' But afterward, repented and went. ³⁰ Then came he to the second, and said likewise, and he answered and said, 'I will sir.' Yet went he not. ³¹ Whether of these twain did the will of the father?" And they said unto him, "The first." Jesus said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots shall come into the kingdom of God before you. ³² For John came unto you, in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not. But the publicans and the harlots believed him. And yet ye, though ye saw it, were not yet moved with repentance; that ye might afterward have believed him.

⁵ All their works they do, for to be seen of men. They set abroad their phylacteries, and make large borders on their garments,

¹³ Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.

³³ ye serpents and generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell?

⁴³ Wherefore, if thy hand offend thee, cut him off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than to go, having two hands, into hell: into fire that never shall be quenched, ⁴⁴ where their worm dieth not, and the fire never goeth out. ⁴⁵ Likewise, if thy foot offend thee, cut him off. For it is better for thee to go halt into life, than, having two feet, to be cast into hell: into fire that never shall be quenched, ⁴⁶ where their worm dieth not, and the fire never goeth out. ⁴⁷ Even so, if thine eye offend thee, pluck him out. It is better for thee to go into the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire: ⁴⁸ where their worm dieth not, and the fire never goeth out. ⁴⁹ "Every man therefore shall be salted with fire: And every sacrifice shall be seasoned with salt.

¹⁷ And he taught, saying unto them, "Is it not written, how that my house shall be called 'The house of prayer unto all nations?' But ye have made it a den of thieves."

³⁴ and went to him, and bound up his wounds, and poured in wine, and oil, and put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and made provision for him.

⁴² But woe be to you Pharisees: for ye tithe the mint, and rue, and all manner herbs; and pass over judgment, and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and yet not to have left the other undone.

⁴⁵ But and if the evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My master will defer his coming,' and shall begin to smite the servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken: ⁴⁶ the Lord of that servant will come in a day, when he thinketh not, and at a hour when he is not aware, and will divide him, and will give him his reward, with the unbelievers.

²⁵ When the good man of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, ye shall begin to stand without, and to knock at the door saying, 'Lord, Lord, open unto us.' And he shall answer and say unto you, 'I know you not whence ye are.' ²⁶ Then shall ye begin to say, 'We have eaten, and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.' ²⁷ And he shall say, 'I tell you, I know you not whence ye are: depart from me all ye workers of iniquity.' ²⁸ There shall be weeping, and gnashing of teeth: when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out a doors.

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee: how often would I have gathered thy children together, as the hen gathereth her nest under her wings, but ye would not.

²⁰ And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which lay at his gate full of sores, ²¹ desiring to be refreshed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's board. Nevertheless, the dogs came, and licked his sores.

²⁹ And even the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. ³⁰ "After these examples, shall it be in the day when the son of man shall appear.

² saying, "There was a Judge in a certain city, which feared not God neither regarded man. ³ And there was a certain widow in the same city, which came unto him saying, 'Avenge me of mine adversary.' ⁴ And he would not for a while. But afterward he said unto himself, 'Though I fear not God, nor care for man, ⁵ yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her: lest at the last she come, and hag on me.'"

⁴³ For the days shall come upon thee; that thy enemies shall cast a bank about thee, and compass thee round and keep thee in on every side; ⁴⁴ And make thee even with the ground, with thy children which are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another, because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation."

⁴⁶ saying unto them, "It is written, 'My house is the house of prayer.' But ye have made it a den of thieves."

¹⁵ "Fear not, daughter of Zion: Behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt."

⁵ And it chanced on the morrow that their rulers, and elders, and scribes: ⁶ as Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest: were gathered together at Jerusalem, ⁷ and set the other before them, and asked, "By what power, or in what name, have ye done this, sirs?" ⁸ Then Peter, full of the holy ghost, said unto them, "Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we this day are examined of the good deed done to the sick man by what means he is made whole: ¹⁰ be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, and whom God raised from death again, even by him doth this man stand here present before you whole. ¹¹ This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is set in the chief place of the corner.

²⁰ For we cannot but speak that which we have seen and heard."

⁵¹ "Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. ⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.

⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them, which showed before of the coming of that Just, whom ye have betrayed and murdered.

¹⁷ While Peter mused in himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold: the men which were sent from Cornelius, had made inquirance for Simon's house, and stood before the door.

² And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them: and three Sabbath days declared out of the scripture unto them,

⁴ And he preached in the synagogue every Sabbath day; And exhorted the Jews and the gentiles.

¹⁶ And now: why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptised, and wash away thy sins, in calling on the name of the Lord.'

²⁵ And as he preached of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come; Felix trembled, and answered, "Thou hast done enough at this time: depart. When I have a convenient time, I will send for thee."

¹⁹ "Wherefore king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

²⁸ And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,

¹ What preferment, then, hath the Jew? Other, what advantageth circumcision? ² Surely, very much. First: unto them was committed the word of God.

²⁴ but are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ²⁵ — whom God hath set forth for a mercy seat through faith in his blood, to show the righteousness which before him is of valour, in that he forgiveth the sins that are passed, ²⁶ which God did suffer to show at this time: the righteousness that is allowed of him, that he might be counted just, and a justifier of him which believeth on Jesus.

²⁰ But the law, in the meantime, entered in that sin should increase. Neverthelater, where abundance of sin was, there was more plenteousness of grace.

²¹ What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death.

⁷ because that the fleshly mind is enmity against God: For it is not obedient to the law of God, neither can be.

⁴ Which are the Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants and the law that was given and the service of God, and the promises, ⁵ whose also are the fathers, and they of whom; as concerning the flesh; Christ came: which is God over all things, blessed forever. Amen.

²⁷ But Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet shall a remnant be saved.

²⁹ And as Isaiah said before, "Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been made as Sodom, and had been likened to Gomorrah."

⁴ But what saith the answer of God to him again? "I have reserved unto me seven thousand men which have not bowed their knees to Baal." ⁵ Even so at this time is there a remnant left through the election of grace. ⁶ If it be of grace, then is it not of works. For then were grace no more grace. If it be by the deserving of works, then is it no more grace. For then were deserving no longer deserving.

²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved. As it is written, "There shall come out of Zion he that doth deliver, and shall turn away the ungodliness of Jacob. ²⁷ And this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins."

⁹ Let love be without dissimulation. Hate that which is evil, and cleave unto that which is good.

³⁰ And unto him pertain ye, in Christ Jesus, which of God is made unto us wisdom, and also righteousness, and sanctifying, and redemption.

²² Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he?

¹⁷ This I warn you of, and commend not that ye come together: not after a better manner but after a worse.

¹⁷ For we are not as many are, which chop and change with the word of God: but even out of pureness, and by the power of God and in the sight of God, so speak we in Christ.

²¹ for he hath made him to be sin for us, which knew no sin, that we by his means should be that righteousness which before God is allowed.

¹ Seeing that we have such promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, and grow up to full holiness in the fear of God.

¹ It is not expedient for me, no doubt, to rejoice; Nevertheless I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved. ⁷ By whom we have redemption through his blood, that is to say, even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, ⁸ which grace he shed on us abundantly in all wisdom, and prudence.

²² so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts, ²³ and be ye renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and put on that new man, which after the image of God is shapen in righteousness, and true holiness. ²⁵ Wherefore, put away lying, and speak every man truth unto his neighbor, forasmuch as we are members one of another. ²⁶ Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath, ²⁷ neither give place unto the backbiter. ²⁸ Let him that stole, steal no more; but let him rather labour with his hands some good thing, that he may have to give unto him that needeth. ²⁹ Let no filthy communication proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good to edify withal, when need is, that it may have favour with the hearers. ³⁰ And grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

¹⁵ Some there are which preach Christ of envy and strife, and some of goodwill.

²⁴ Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -

³ For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

⁸ in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ which shall be punished with everlasting damnation, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power,

⁸ I will, therefore, that the men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.

² which is after godliness upon the hope of eternal life; which life God, that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began:

¹¹ For the grace of God, that bringeth salvation unto all men, hath appeared ¹² and teacheth us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and that we should live sober minded, righteously, and godly in this present world, ¹³ looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the mighty God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ: ¹⁴ which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

¹⁴ which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

¹ Wherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things which we have heard, lest we perish. ² For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast — so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward - ³ how shall we escape if we despise so great salvation? Which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it;

⁹ and was made perfect, and the cause of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him:

¹³ and from henceforth tarrieth till his foes be made his footstool.

⁵ And ye have forgotten the consolation which speaketh unto you, as unto children, "My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him: ⁶ For whom the Lord loveth, him he chasteneth: yea, and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth." ⁷ If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸ If ye be not under correction — whereof all are partakers — then are ye bastards and not sons.

²² But ye are come unto the mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the celestial Jerusalem: and to an innumerable sight of angels,

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded.

¹⁸ Forasmuch as ye know how that ye were not redeemed with corruptible gold and silver from your vain conversation, which ye received by the traditions of the fathers, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb undefiled, and without spot,

¹ Wherefore, lay aside all maliciousness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envy, and all backbiting:

¹¹ Let him eschew evil and do good: let him seek peace, and ensue it.

²¹ For the scripture came never by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.

⁶ and turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, overthrew them, damned them, and made of them an example unto all that after should live ungodly;

⁵ This they know not — and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God:

⁷ But the heavens verily and earth which are now, are kept by the same word in store, and reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.

¹⁴ And heaven vanished away, as a scroll when it is rolled together. And all mountains and isles were moved out of their places. ¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and in rocks of the hills, ¹⁶ and said to the hills, and rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the seat, and from the wrath of the lamb, ¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath is come; And who can endure it?"

¹⁴ And I said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest." And he said unto me, "These are they which came out of great tribulation and made their garments large, and made them white in the blood of the lamb:

² but the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is given unto the gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty two months.

⁸ And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Eygpt, where our Lord was crucified.

¹⁰ the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured in the cup of his wrath. And he shall be punished in fire and brimstone, before the holy angels, and before the lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up evermore. And they have no rest day nor night, which worship the beast, and his image, and whosoever receiveth the print of his name."

⁸ And the fourth angel poured out his vial on the sun, and power was given unto him to vex men with heat of fire. ⁹ And the men raged in great heat, and spake evil of the name of God which hath power over those plagues, and they repented not, to give him glory. ¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom waxed dark, and they gnawed their tongues for sorrow, ¹¹ and blasphemed the God of heaven for sorrow, and pain of their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

⁵ For her sins are gone up to heaven, and God hath remembered her wickedness.

⁸ Therefore shall her plagues come at one day; death, and sorrow, and hunger, and she shall be burnt with fire: for strong is the Lord God which judgeth her.

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that received the beast's mark, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast into a pond of fire burning with brimstone:

¹⁰ and the devil that deceived them, was cast into a lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet were and shall be tormented day and night for ever more.

⁸ But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

²⁷ And there shall enter into it none unclean thing; neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh lies, but they only which are written in the Lamb's book of life.