Isaiah 64 Cross References - MSTC

¹ O that thou wouldest cleave the heaven in sunder, and come down: that the mountains might melt away at thy presence, ² like as at a hot fire; that the malicious might boil away, as the water doth upon the fire. Whereby thy name might be known among thine enemies, and that the Gentiles might tremble before thee. ³ When thou wroughtest wondrous strange works, we looked not for them: thou camest down and the hills melted at thy presence. ⁴ For since the beginning of the world there was none except thou, O God, that heard or perceived; neither hath any eye seen what thou doest, for them that put their trust in thee. ⁵ Thou helpest him that doth right with cheerfulness, and them that think upon thy ways. But lo, thou art angry: for we offend, and have been ever in sin, and there is not one whole. ⁶ We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind. ⁷ There is no man that calleth upon thy name, that standeth up to take hold by thee. Therefore hidest thou thy face from us and consumest us, because of our sins. ⁸ But now O LORD, thou father of ours: we are the clay, and thou art our potter, and we all are the work of thy hands. ⁹ Be not too sore displeased, O LORD, and keep not our offenses too long in thy remembrance: but consider that we all are thy people. ¹⁰ The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert. ¹¹ Our holy house which is our beauty, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away. ¹² Wilt thou not be intreated, LORD, for all this? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and scourge us so sore?

⁸ and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and of the Jebusites.

¹¹ that they may be ready against the third day. For the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

¹⁸ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful. ¹⁹ And the voice of the horn blew and waxed louder, and louder. Moses spake, and God answered him and that with a voice.

⁴ LORD, when thou departedest out of Seir and camest from the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heaven rained, and the clouds dropped water: ⁵ the mountains melted before the LORD, even mount Sinai before the LORD God of Israel.

⁷ The earth trembled and quaked; the very foundations also of the hills shook and were removed, because he was wroth. {TYNDALE: And the earth trembled and quoke, and the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was angry.} ⁸ There went a smoke out in his presence, and a consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were kindled at it. {TYNDALE: Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and consuming fire out of his mouth, that coals were kindled of him.} ⁹ He bowed the heavens, also, and came down, and it was dark under his feet. {TYNDALE: And he bowed heaven and came down, and darkness underneath his feet.} ¹⁰ He rode upon the Cherub, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. {TYNDALE: And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.} ¹¹ He made darkness his secret place, his pavilion round about him; with dark waters and thick clouds to cover him. {TYNDALE: And he made darkness a tabernacle round about him, with water gathered together in thick clouds.} ¹² At the brightness of his presence, his clouds removed hailstones and coals of fire. {TYNDALE: Of the brightness that was before him, coals were set on fire.} ¹³ The LORD also thundered out of the heaven, and the highest gave his thunder, with hailstones and coals of fire. {TYNDALE: The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most high put out his voice.} ¹⁴ He sent out his arrows and scattered them, he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them. {TYNDALE: And he shot arrows and scattered them, and hurled lightning and turmoiled them.} ¹⁵ The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O LORD, at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasures. {TYNDALE: And the bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by the reason of the rebuking of the LORD, and through the blasting of the breath of his nostrils.}

⁶ The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.

⁸ the earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of God, even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God, who is the God of Israel.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like young sheep. ⁵ What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? And thou Jordan, that thou turnest back? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? And ye little hills, like young sheep? ⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

⁵ Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke withal. ⁶ Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them; shoot out thine arrows, and consume them.

¹⁵ Look down then from heaven, and behold the dwelling place of thy Sanctuary and thy glory. How is it that thy jealousy, thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies and thy loving-kindness, will not be entreated of us?

⁵ For when the LORD God of hosts toucheth a land, it consumeth away, and all they that dwell therein, must needs mourn: And why? Their destruction shall arise as every stream and run over them, as the flood in Egypt.

¹³ "Behold, the days will come," saith the LORD, "that the earer shall overtake the reaper, and treader of grapes the sower of seed. And the mountains shall drop sweetness, and the hills shall be earable.

³ For why? Behold, the LORD shall go out of his place, and come down, and tread upon the high things of the earth. ⁴ The mountains shall consume under him, and the valleys shall cleave asunder: like as wax consumeth at the fire, and as the waters run downward. ⁵ The mountains tremble for him, the hills consume. At the sight of him the earth quaketh: yea, the whole world, and all that dwell therein. ⁶ Who may endure before his wrath? Or who is able to abide his grim displeasure? His anger taketh on like fire, and the hard rocks burst in sunder before him.

¹ {A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk for the ignorances} O LORD, I have heard thy voice, and was afraid. 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. ³ God cometh from Teman, and the holy one from the mount of Paran. Selah. ⁴ His glory covereth the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise. His shine is as the sun, and beams of light go out of his hands; there is his power hid. ⁵ Destruction goeth before him, and burning cressettes go from his feet. ⁶ He standeth, and measureth the earth. He looketh, and the people consume away, the mountains of the world fall down to powder, and the hills are fain to bow themselves, for his goings are everlasting and sure. ⁷ I saw, that the pavilions of the Ethiopians and the tents of the land of Midian were vexed for weariness. ⁸ Wast thou not angry, O LORD, in the waters? Was not thy wrath in the floods, and thy displeasure in the sea? Yes, when thou sattest upon thine horse, and when thy chariots had the victory. ⁹ Thou showedest thy bow openly, like as thou hadst promised with an oath unto the tribes. Selah. Thou didst divide the waters of the earth. ¹⁰ The mountains saw thee, and they tembled, the water stream went away: the deep made a noise at the lifting up of thine hand. ¹¹ The Sun and Moon remained still in their habitation. Thine arrows went out glistering, and thy spears as the shine of the lightning. ¹² Thou troddest down the land in thine anger, and didst thrash the Heathen in thy displeasure. ¹³ Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for the salvation of thine anointed. Thou smotest down the head in the house of the ungodly, and discoveredest his foundations, even unto the neck of him. Selah.

¹⁰ And as soon as he was come out of the water, John saw the heavens open, and the holy ghost descending upon him like a dove.

¹⁰ Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn. ¹¹ If all these things shall perish, what manner persons ought ye to be in holy conversation, and godliness: ¹² looking for, and hasting unto, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall perish with fire, and the elements shall be consumed with heat.

¹¹ And I saw a great white seat and him that sat on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found.

⁴ And I will harden his heart, that he shall follow after them, that I may get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD." And they did even so.

¹⁴ The nations heard, and were afraid. Pangs came upon the Philistines. ¹⁵ Then the dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint-hearted. ¹⁶ Let fear and dread fall upon them through the greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass through, O LORD; while the people pass through, which thou hast gotten.

²⁵ This day I will begin to send the fear and dread of thee upon all nations that are under all ports of heaven: so that when they hear speak of thee, they shall tremble and quake for fear of thee.'

⁴⁶ This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth — and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel. ⁴⁷ And all this congregation shall know that the LORD saveth not with the sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and he shall give you into our hands."

⁴¹ And likewise, if a stranger that is not of thy people Israel come out of a far country for thy name's sake ⁴² — for they shall hear of thy great name and of thy mighty hand and stretched-out arm — and therefore if he come and pray at this place, ⁴³ hear thou up to heaven thy dwelling place and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all nations of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee as do thy people Israel, and that it may be known that this house which I have built is called after thy name.

²⁰ O LORD, put a schoolmaster over them, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

¹⁰ "Be still then, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the Heathen, I will be exalted upon earth."

⁴ For lo, the kings of the earth were gathered, and gone by together. ⁵ They marveled, to see such things: they were astonished, and suddenly cast down. ⁶ Fear came there upon them, and sorrow as upon a woman in her travail.

¹ {To the Chanter, in Neginoth, a Psalm and song} God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and show us the light of his countenance. Selah. ² That we may know thy way upon earth, thy saving health among all heathen.

¹⁰ Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight.

¹³ O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind.

¹ O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvelous things. With his own righthand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory. ² The LORD hath declared his salvation, and his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen.

¹ The LORD is king, be the people never so inpatient; he sitteth upon the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet.

¹⁵ The Heathen shall fear thy name, O LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy majesty, ¹⁶ when the LORD shall build up Zion, and when his glory shall appear;

⁸ Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known.

²⁰ Deliver us then, O LORD our God, from the hands of Sennacherib, that all kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou only art the LORD."

¹² how he had led Moses by the righthand with his glorious arm; how he had divided the water before them, whereby he gat himself an everlasting name;

²² Fear ye not me, sayeth the LORD? Are ye not ashamed, to look me in the face? Which bind the sea with the sand, so that it cannot pass his bounds: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing; and though the waves thereof do swell, yet may they not go over.

⁹ And this shall get me a name, and praise and honour, among all people of the earth, which shall hear all the good, that I will show unto them: Yea, they shall be afraid and astonished at all the good deeds and benefits that I will do for them.

²² With pestilence and blood will I punish him: stormy rain and hail stones, fire and brimstone, will I cause to rain upon him and all his heap, yea and upon all that great people that is with him. ²³ Thus will I be magnified, honored, and known among the Heathen: that they may be sure how that I am the LORD.'"

²⁷ And when I have brought them again from among the people, when I have gathered them together out of their enemies' lands, and am praised in them before many Heathen: ²⁸ then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which suffered them to be led into captivity among the Heathen, but now have brought them again into their own land, and not left one of them yonder.

¹ Nebuchadnezzar, king, unto all people, kindreds and tongues that dwell upon the whole earth: peace be multiplied among you. ² I thought it good to show the tokens and marvelous works that the high God hath wrought upon me. ³ O how great are his tokens, and how mighty are his wonders? His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power lasteth for ever and ever.

³² Thou shalt be cast out of men's company: thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, so that thou shalt eat grass like as an ox, till seven years be come and gone over thee: even until thou knowest, that the highest hath power upon the kingdoms of men, and that he may give them, unto whom it pleaseth him.'" ³³ The very same hour was this matter fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: so that he was cast out of men's company, and ate grass like an ox; His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were as great as Eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws. ³⁴ When this time was past, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lift up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding was restored unto me again. Then gave I thanks to the highest. I magnified and praised him that liveth for evermore, whose power endureth alway, and his kingdom from one generation to another: ³⁵ in comparison of whom, all they that dwell upon the earth are to be reputed as nothing. He handleth according to his will, among the powers of heaven and among the inhabiters of the earth - and there is none that may resist his hand, or say, 'What doest thou?' ³⁶ At the same time was mine understanding given me again, and I was restored to the honour of my kingdom, to my dignity, and to my own shape again. My great estates and princes sought unto me, and I was set in my kingdom again, so that I had yet greater worship. ³⁷ Then did I, Nebuchadnezzar, love, magnify and praise the King of heaven: for all his works are true, and his ways right. As for those that go on proudly, he is able to bring them down.

²⁵ After this, wrote king Darius, "Unto all people kindreds and tongues, that dwelt in all lands, peace be multiplied with you. ²⁶ My commandment is, in all my dominion and kingdom, that men fear and stand in awe of Daniel's God. For he is the living God, which abideth ever: his kingdom shall not fail and his power is everlasting. ²⁷ It is he that delivereth and saveth: he doth wonders and marvelous works, in heaven and in earth: he hath preserved Daniel from the power of the Lions."

¹⁶ The LORD shall roar out of Zion, a cry out of Jerusalem; that the heavens and the earth shall quake withal. But the LORD shall be a defense to his own people, and a refuge for the children of Israel. ¹⁷ And ye shall know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion my holy mount. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and there shall no stranger pass through there any more.

¹⁵ Marvelous things will I show them, like as when they came out of Egypt. ¹⁶ This shall the Heathen see, and be ashamed for all their power: so that they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, and stop their ears. ¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like a serpent, as the worms of the earth, that tremble in their holes. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and they shall fear thee.

¹¹ And after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood up upon their feet: and great fear came upon them which saw them. ¹² And they heard a great voice from heaven, saying unto them, "Come up hither." And they ascended up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them. ¹³ And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain names of men seven thousand. And the remnant were afeared, and gave glory to God of heaven.

¹⁰ And he said, "Behold, I make an covenant before all this people; that I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the world, neither among any nation. And all the people, among which thou art, shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

³⁴ Either, whether God assayed to go and take him a people from among nations, through temptations and signs and wonders and through war and with a mighty hand and a stretched-out arm and with mighty terrible sights, according unto all that the LORD your God did unto you in Egypt before your eyes.

²¹ for he is thy praise, and he is thy God that hath done these great and terrible things for thee, which thine eyes have seen.

²³ And what one people in the earth is like thy people Israel? Which God went and delivered to be his people, and to make him a name, and to show them great and terrible things in the earth, before thy people which thou redeemest to thee out of Egypt, even from the people and from their gods.

⁵ Thou shalt show us wonderful things in thy righteousness, O God of our salvation, thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea - ⁶ who in his strength setteth fast the mountains, and is girded about with power;

³ Say unto God, "O how wonderful are thy works? Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee.

⁵ O come hither and behold the works of God; which is so wonderful in his doings among the children of men.

¹² Which taketh away the breath of princes, and is wonderful among the kings of the earth.

²⁷ These did his tokens among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent darkness, and it was dark; for they were not obedient unto his word. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. ³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs; yea, even in their king's chambers. ³¹ He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters. ³² He gave them hail stones for rain, and flames of fire in their land. ³³ He smote their vineyards and fig trees, and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts. ³⁴ He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable, ³⁵ and did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruits of their ground. ³⁶ He smote all the firstborn in their land, even the chief of all their strength.

²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea.

¹ O that thou wouldest cleave the heaven in sunder, and come down: that the mountains might melt away at thy presence,

³ God cometh from Teman, and the holy one from the mount of Paran. Selah.

⁶ He standeth, and measureth the earth. He looketh, and the people consume away, the mountains of the world fall down to powder, and the hills are fain to bow themselves, for his goings are everlasting and sure.

¹⁸ After thy saving look I, LORD.

¹⁹ O how plentiful is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the sons of men!

¹ {To the Chanter, for by Jeduthun, a Psalm of David} My soul truly waiteth still upon God; for of him cometh my salvation.

⁵ I look for the LORD; my soul doth wait for him, and in his word is my trust.

⁹ In that day shall it be said, "Lo, this is our God: we have waited for him, and he shall save us. This is the LORD in whom we have hoped: Let us rejoice, and delight in his salvation.

¹⁸ Yet standeth the LORD waiting, that he may have mercy upon you, and lifteth himself up, that he may receive you to grace. For the LORD God is righteous. Happy are all they that wait for him.

²⁵ {Tet} O how good is the LORD unto them that put their trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh after him? ²⁶ O how good is it, with stillness, to wait and tarry for the health of the LORD?

³⁴ Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed children of my father, inherit ye the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world.

²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon. And the same man was just and feared God, and longed for the consolation of Israel, and the holy ghost was in him.

³ And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again: and receive you even unto myself, that where I am, there may ye be also.

¹⁹ Also, the fervent desire of the creatures abideth looking when the sons of God shall appear;

²³ Not they only, but even we also: which have the first fruits of the spirit mourn in ourselves and wait for the adoption and look for the deliverance of our bodies. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is no hope. For how can a man hope for that which he seeth? ²⁵ But and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience abide for it.

⁷ so that ye are behind in no gift, and wait for the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ

⁹ But as it is written, "The eye hath not seen, and the ear hath not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." ¹⁰ But God hath opened them unto us by his spirit. For the spirit searcheth all things, yea the bottom of God's secrets.

⁵ which mystery in times past was not opened unto the sons of men as it is now declared unto his holy apostles and prophets by the spirit: ⁶ That the gentiles should be inheritors also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise that is in Christ, by the means of the gospel, ⁷ whereof I am made a minister, by the gift of the grace of God given unto me, through the working of his power. ⁸ Unto me, the least of all saints, is this grace given; that I should preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, ⁹ and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, which made all things through Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ to the intent that now, unto the rulers and powers in heaven, might be known by the congregation the manifold wisdom of God,

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ might be able to comprehend with all saints, what is that breadth and length, depth and height: ¹⁹ and to know what is the love of Christ, which love passeth knowledge: that ye might be fulfilled with all manner of fullness which cometh of God. ²⁰ Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, ²¹ be praise in the congregation by Jesus Christ, throughout all generations from time to time. Amen.

²⁶ that mystery, hid since the world began, and since the beginning of generations: But now is opened to his saints, ²⁷ to whom God would make known the glorious riches of this mystery among the gentiles, which riches is Christ in you, the hope of glory,

¹⁰ and for to look for his son from heaven, whom he raised from death: I mean Jesus, which delivereth us from wrath to come.

¹⁶ And without nay, great is that mystery of godliness. God was showed in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen of angels, was preached unto the gentiles, was believed on in earth and received up in glory.

¹⁶ But now they desire a better, that is to say a heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them, even to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience there upon, until he receive the early and the latter rain.

¹ Behold what love the father hath showed on us, that we should be called the sons of God. For this cause the world knoweth you not; because it knoweth not him. ² Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it doth not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is.

¹⁰ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make a satisfaction for our sins.

¹ And I saw a new heaven, and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were vanished away, and there was no more sea. ² And I, John, saw that holy city, new Jerusalem, come down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride garnished for her husband. ³ And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them. And they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. ⁴ And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, neither crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the old things are gone.

²² And there was no temple therein. For the Lord God almighty and the lamb are the temple of it. ²³ And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to lighten it. For the brightness of God did light it: and the lamb was the light of it. ²⁴ And the people which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory unto it.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the seat of God and of the lamb. ² In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river was there wood of life; which bare twelve manner of fruits, and gave fruit every month: and the leaves of the wood served to heal the people withal. ³ And there shall be no more curse, but the seat of God and the lamb shall be in it: and his servants shall serve him. ⁴ And they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. ⁵ And there shall be no more night there and they need no candle, neither light of the sun: for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for evermore.

²⁴ An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and thereon offer thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, and thy sheep and thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remembrance of my name, thither I will come unto thee and bless thee.

²² "There I will meet thee and will commune with thee from upon the mercy seat from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of witness, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

⁴² And it shall be a continual burnt offering among your children after you, in the door of the tabernacle of witness before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak unto you there. ⁴³ There I will meet with the children of Israel, and will be sanctified in mine honour.

⁶ And thou shalt put it before the veil that hangeth before the ark of witness, and before the mercy seat that is before the witness, where I will meet thee.

¹⁰ All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

⁴ Delight thou in the LORD, and he shall give thee thy heart's desire.

⁷ For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. ⁸ Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

¹⁷ But the merciful goodness of the LORD endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him, and his righteousness upon their children's children;

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, and hath great delight in his commandments.

⁸ Therefore, LORD, we have a respect unto the way of thy judgments; thy name and thy remembrance rejoice the soul. ⁹ My soul lusteth after thee all the night long, and my mind hasteth freely to thee. For as soon as thy judgment is known to the world, then the inhabiters of the earth learn righteousness.

¹ Thus sayeth the LORD: Keep equity, and do right, for my saving health shall come shortly, and my righteousness shall be opened. ² Blessed is the man that doth this, and the man's child which keepeth the same. He that taketh heed, that he unhallow not the Sabbath; that is, he that keepeth himself that he do no evil. ³ Then shall not the stranger, which cleaveth to the LORD, say, "Alas the LORD hath shut me clean out from his people." Neither shall the gelded man say, "Lo, I am a dried tree." ⁴ For thus sayeth the LORD, first unto the gelded that keepeth my Sabbath - namely, that holdeth greatly of the thing that pleaseth me, and keepeth my covenant - ⁵ Unto them will I give in my household and within my walls, a better heritage and name than if they had been called sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall not perish. ⁶ Again, he sayeth unto the strangers that are disposed to stick to the LORD, to serve him, and to Love his name: That they shall be no bondman. And all they, which keep themselves, that they unhallow not the Sabbath - namely, that they fulfill my covenant - ⁷ Them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar. For my house shall be a house of prayer for all people.

¹⁰ But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.

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.

³ Then shall we have understanding, and endeavor ourselves to know the LORD. He shall go forth as the spring of the day, and come unto us as the evening and morning rain upon the earth."

⁸ What great things have I given thee, O Ephraim? How faithfully have I defended thee, O Israel? Have I dealt with thee as with Adam? Or have I entreated thee like Zeboim? No, my heart is otherwise minded. Yea, my mercy is to fervent:

⁶ For I am the LORD that change not, and ye, O children of Jacob, will not leave off.

² a devout man, and one that feared God with all his household, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed God always. ³ The same man saw in a vision evidently, about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming into him, and saying unto him, "Cornelius." ⁴ When he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, "What is it Lord?" He said unto him, "Thy prayers and thy alms are come up into remembrance before God.

³⁵ but in all people, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

¹³ Brethren, I count not myself that I have gotten it: but one thing I say: I forget that which is behind me, and stretch myself unto that which is before me; ¹⁴ and press unto that mark appointed, to obtain the reward of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus wise minded: and if ye be otherwise minded, I pray God open even this unto you.

¹⁶ Let us therefore go boldly unto the seat of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

⁴ Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? What hath he, which is born of a woman, whereby he might be known to be righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, he doth not trust his saints; yea, the very heavens are not clean in his sight. ¹⁶ How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?

⁴ But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

⁴ "Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.

⁵ I have given diligent ear unto thee, and now I see thee with mine eyes. ⁶ Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

⁴ As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.

⁵ Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

⁵ As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly like the grass. ⁶ In the morning it is green and groweth up; but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

⁵ Then I said, "O woe is me! For I am lost: inasmuch as I am a man of unclean lips, and dwell among people that hath unclean lips also. For mine eyes have seen the King and LORD of Hosts."

⁶ The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field. ⁷ When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them. ⁸ Nevertheless whether the grass wither, or the flower fade away: Yet the word of our God endureth forever."

¹² Hear me, O ye that are of a high stomach, but far from righteousness:

¹ Hear this, O thou house of Jacob; ye that are called by the name of Israel, and are come out of one stock with Judah; which swear by the name of the LORD, and bear witness by the God of Israel - but not with truth and right.

⁶ And we went astray as sheep, and turned every man his way: and the LORD put on him the wickedness of us all.

¹² Yea, verily, I will declare thy goodness and thy works, but they shall not profit thee. ¹³ When thou cryest, let thy chosen heap deliver thee. But the wind shall take them all away, and carry them into the air. Nevertheless, they that put their trust in me, shall inherit the land, and have my holy hill in possession.

¹¹ Then shall it be said to the people and to Jerusalem, "A strong wind in the high places of the wilderness cometh through the way of my people; but neither to fan nor to cleanse. ¹² After that shall there come unto me a strong wind, and then will I also give sentence upon them."

¹⁹ A wind shall take hold of their feathers, and they shall be confounded in their offerings.

³ Now Joshua was clothed in unclean raiment, and stood before the angel:

⁸ And he said, 'This is ungodliness.' So he cast her into the midst of the measure, and threw the lump of lead up in to a hole. ⁹ Then lift I up mine eyes, and looked: and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings, for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lift up the measure betwixt the earth and the heaven. ¹⁰ Then spake I to the angel that talked with me, 'Whither will these bear the measure?' ¹¹ And he said unto me, 'Into the land of Shinar, to build them a house: which when it is prepared, the measure shall be set there in his place.'

¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is to say, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing. To will is present with me: but I find no means to perform that which is good.

²⁴ O wretched man that I am: who shall deliver me from this body of death?

¹ And you hath he quickened also, that were dead in trespass and sin: ² in the which, in time past, ye walked, according to the course of this world, and after the governor that ruleth in the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of unbelief,

⁹ and might be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law: But that which springeth of the faith which is in Christ. I mean, the righteousness which cometh of God through faith

³ For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

¹⁰ and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away. ¹¹ The sun riseth with heat, and the grass withereth and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man perish with his abundance.

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away, ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endureth ever. And this is the word which by the gospel was preached among you.

¹⁷ because thou sayest thou art rich and increased with goods, and hast need of nothing, and knowest not how thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich: and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, that thy filthy nakedness do not appear: and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.

¹³ And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, "What are these which are arrayed in long white garments, and whence came they?"

¹⁷ And then my wrath will wax hot against them, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed. And when much adversity and tribulation is come upon them, then they will say, 'Because our God is not among us, ¹⁸ these tribulations are come upon us.' But I will hide my face that same time for all the evil's sake which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto strange gods.

¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters. ²⁰ And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith. ²¹ They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation. ²² For fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn unto the bottom of hell; and shall consume the earth with her increase; and set afire the bottoms of the mountains. ²³ I will heap mischiefs upon them and will spend all mine arrows at them. ²⁴ Burnt with hunger and consumed with heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, and poison serpents. ²⁵ Without forth, the sword shall rob them of their children; and within in the chamber, fear: both young men and young women, and the sucklings with the men of gray heads.

⁴ When thy sons sinned against him, did not he punish them for their wickedness?

⁴ Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD?

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.

⁵ Or who will enforce me to keep or make peace?

² For why would no man receive me, when I came? And when I called, no man gave me answer. Was my hand clean smitten off, that it might not help? Or had I not power to deliver? Lo, at a word I drink up the sea, and of water floods I make dry land: so that for want of water, the fish corrupt and die of thirst.

⁸ When I was angry, I hid my face from thee for a little season, but through everlasting goodness shall I pardon thee, sayeth the LORD thine avenger.

⁴ For thus sayeth the LORD, first unto the gelded that keepeth my Sabbath - namely, that holdeth greatly of the thing that pleaseth me, and keepeth my covenant -

¹⁷ I am wroth with him for his covetousness and lust, I smite him, I hide me, and am angry, when he turneth himself, and followeth the byway of his own heart.

² But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not.

⁴ No man regardeth righteousness, and no man judgeth truly. Every man hopeth in vain things, and imagineth deceit; conceiveth weariness, and bringeth forth evil.

¹⁶ He saw also, that there was no man which had pity thereof, or was grieved at it. And he held him by his own power, and cleaved to his own righteousness.

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?

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, 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. 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."

³⁰ And I sought in the land for a man, that would make up the hedge, and set himself in the gap before me in the lands behalf, that I should not utterly destroy it: but I could find none.

¹¹ Moreover, set the pot empty upon the coals, that it may be warm and the metal hot: that the filth and rustiness may be consumed.

¹⁵ I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.

⁷ they are altogether as hot as an oven. They have devoured their own judges, all their kings are fallen: yet is there none of them that calleth upon me.

¹⁴ They call not upon me with their hearts, but lie howling upon their beds. Whereas they come together, it is but for meat and drink, and me will they not obey.

²² And tell Pharaoh, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Israel is mine eldest son,

⁶ "Dost thou so reward the LORD? O foolish nation and unwise. Is not he thy father and thine owner? Hath he not made thee and ordained thee?

⁸ "Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me altogether round about. Wilt thou then destroy me suddenly? ⁹ O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again.

³ Be ye sure, that the LORD he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves. We are but his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

⁷³ {Yod} Thy hands have made me and fashioned me, O give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

⁸ The LORD shall make good his loving-kindness toward me. Yea, thy mercy, O LORD, endureth forever; despise not then the works of thine own hands.

¹⁶ Doubtless, your destruction is, in reputation, as the potter's clay. And doth the work say of him that made it, "He made me not?" And doth an earthen vessel say of the potter, "He understandeth not?"

⁷ Namely, all those that be called after my name. For them have I created, fashioned, and made for mine honour.'"

²¹ Consider this, O Jacob and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have made thee, that thou mightest serve me. O Israel, forget me not.

²⁴ For thus sayeth the LORD thy redeemer, even he that fashioned thee from thy mother's womb: I am the LORD, which do all things myself alone. I only have spread out the heavens, and I only have laid the foundation of the earth.

⁹ Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"

¹⁶ Yet art thou our father: For Abraham knoweth us not, neither is Israel acquainted with us. But thou LORD art our father and redeemer, and thy name is everlasting.

² "Arise, and go down into the Potter's house, and there shall I tell thee more of my mind." ³ Now when I came to the Potter's house, I found him making his work upon a wheel. ⁴ The vessel that the Potter made of clay, brake among his hands: So he began anew, and made another vessel, according to his mind. ⁵ Then said the LORD thus unto me, ⁶ "May not I do with you, as this Potter doth, O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD? Behold, ye house of Israel: ye are in my hand, even as the clay in the Potter's hand.

²⁰ But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?" ²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, even of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? ²² Even so, God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, suffered with long patience the vessels of wrath, ordained to damnation, ²³ that he might declare the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared unto glory: ²⁴ that is to say, us which he called, not of the Jews only, but also of the gentiles.

²⁶ For ye are all the sons of God, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

²⁹ If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs by promise.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, unto the which God ordained us before, that we should walk in them.

¹ {To the Chanter in Neginoth upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation, neither chasten me in thy displeasure.

¹ {To the Chanter, To Bring Remembrance} Put me not to rebuke, O LORD, in thy anger; O chasten me not in thy heavy displeasure.

¹ {An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? ² O think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased, and redeemed of old; the staff of thine inheritance, whom thou hast redeemed, even this hill of Zion wherein thou dwellest.

⁵ LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? ⁶ Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. ⁸ O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery. ⁹ Help us, O God our saviour, for the glory of thy name; O deliver us, and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake.

¹³ So we, that be the people and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks forever, and will always be showing forth thy praise, from generation to generation.

⁹⁴ I am thine; O save me, for I seek thy commandments.

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.

¹⁰ Strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall do thee service. For when I am angry, I smite thee; and when it pleaseth me, I pardon thee.

¹⁹ And we are become even as we were from the beginning: but thou art not their LORD, for they have not called upon thy name.

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:

²⁴ Therefore chasten thou us, O LORD; but with favour, and not in thy wrath. Bring us not utterly to naught.

²⁰ Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long?

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. ²⁰ Thou shalt keep thy trust with Jacob, and thy mercy for Abraham, like as thou hast sworn unto our fathers long ago.

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 And though Edom said, "Well, we are destroyed, we will go build up again the places that be wasted": yet sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "What they builded, that brake I down: so that it was called a cursed land and people, whom the LORD hath ever been angry withal."

¹⁷ These are wells without water, and clouds carried about of a tempest, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

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.

⁹ and burnt the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire.

¹⁹ And they burnt the house of God and brake down the walls of Jerusalem and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire with all the goodly stuff thereof, and marred it. ²⁰ And he carried away them that had escaped the sword to Babylon, where they were servants to him and his children, until the kingdom of Persia began to rule; ²¹ to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had her pleasure of her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath until she had fulfilled seventy years.

¹ {A Psalm of Asaph} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem a heap of stones. ² The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air, and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land. ³ Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them. ⁴ We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us. ⁵ LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? ⁶ Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

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.

¹ {Aleph} Alas, how sitteth the city so desolate, that some time was full of people? How is she become like a widow, which was the lady of all nations? How is she brought under tribute, that ruled all lands? ² {Beth} She weepeth sore in the night, so that the tears run down her cheeks: for among all her lovers, there is none that giveth her any comfort. Yea, her next friends transgress against her, and are become her enemies. ³ {Gimel} Judah is taken prisoner, because she was defiled: and for serving so many strange gods, she dwelleth now among the heathen. She findeth no rest: all they that persecuted her, took her in strait places where she could not escape. ⁴ {Daleth} The streets of Zion mourn, because no man cometh to the solemn feasts. All her gates are desolate; her priests make lamentation; her maidens are careful; and she herself is in great heaviness.

⁴ {Daleth} He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath fastened his righthand as an adversary: and everything that was pleasant to see, he hath smitten it down. He hath poured out his wrath like a fire, into the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. ⁵ {He} The LORD is become like as it were an enemy: he hath cast down Israel and all his places. Yea, all his strongholds hath he destroyed, and filled the daughter of Judah with much sorrow and heaviness. 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. ⁷ {Zayin} The LORD hath forsaken his own altar, and is wroth with his own sanctuary, and hath given the walls of their towers into the hands of the enemy. Their enemies made a noise in the house of the LORD, as it had been in a solemn feast day. ⁸ {Khet} The LORD thought to break down the walls of the daughter Zion; he spread out his line, and drew not in his hand, till he had destroyed them. Therefore mourn the turrets and the broken walls together.

¹⁸ because of the hill of Zion that is destroyed: Insomuch that the foxes run upon it.

²⁶ After these sixty two weeks, shall Christ be slain, and they shall have no pleasure in him. Then shall there come a people with the prince, and destroy the city and the Sanctuary: and his end shall come as the water flood. But the desolation shall continue till the end of the battle. ²⁷ He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of the abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

⁷ Then heard I the man with the linen clothes, which stood above upon the waters of the flood: when he held up his right and left hand unto heaven, and sware by him which liveth forever, that, "It shall tarry for a time, two times and half a time: when the power of the holy people is clean scattered abroad, then shall all these things be fulfilled."

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.

²¹ Then let them which are in Jewry fly to the mountains. And let them which are in the midst of it, depart out. And let not them that are in other countries, come therein.

²⁴ And they shall fall on the edge of the sword. And they shall be led captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden underfoot of the gentiles, until the time of the gentiles be fulfilled.

¹ And then was given me a reed, like unto a rod, and it was said unto me, "Rise and mete the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein; 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.

¹⁴ And the king turned his face and blessed all the congregation of Israel, all the congregation standing.

⁵⁶ "Blessed be the LORD that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he promised: so that there is not one word escaped of all the good promises which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

⁴ And he said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel which spake with his mouth to my father David and hath fulfilled it with his hands. For God said,

³ And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down and the glory of the LORD upon the house, and stooped with their faces to the earth upon the pavement and bowed themselves and confessed unto the LORD, that he was good and that his mercy lasted ever.

⁶ And the priests waited on their offices, and the Levites with instruments of music of the LORD which king David made to confess unto the LORD that his mercy lasteth ever, when David gave praise through their hands. And the priests blew trumpets fast by them: and all Israel stood.

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.

¹⁹ And they burnt the house of God and brake down the walls of Jerusalem and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire with all the goodly stuff thereof, and marred it.

⁵ He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work. ⁶ But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers. ⁷ They have set fire upon thy holy places, and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name, even to the ground.

¹³ and burnt up the house of the LORD. He burnt up also the king's palace, all the houses, and all the gorgeous buildings in Jerusalem.

⁷ {Zayin} Now doth Jerusalem remember the time of her misery and disobedience, yea the joy and pleasure that she hath had in times past: seeing her people is brought down through the power of their enemy, and there is no man for to help her. Her enemies stand looking at her, and laughing her Sabbath days to scorn.

¹⁰ {Yod} The enemy hath put his hand to all the precious things that she had, yea even before her eyes came the Heathen in and out of the Sanctuary: whom thou, nevertheless, hast forbidden to come within thy congregation. ¹¹ {Khaf} All her people seek their bread with heaviness, and look: what precious things every man hath, that giveth he for meat to save his life. Consider, O LORD, and see, how vile I am become.

⁷ {Zayin} The LORD hath forsaken his own altar, and is wroth with his own sanctuary, and hath given the walls of their towers into the hands of the enemy. Their enemies made a noise in the house of the LORD, as it had been in a solemn feast day.

²⁰ because they made thereof not only costly Jewels for their pomp and pride, but also abominable images and Idols. For this cause will I make them to be abhorred. ²¹ Moreover, I will give it into the hands of the strangers to be spoiled: and to the wicked for to be robbed, and they shall destroy it.

²¹ 'Tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will suspend my sanctuary: even the glory of your power, that pleasure of your eyes, and the thing that ye love: your sons and daughters whom ye have left, shall fall through the sword.

²⁵ "But behold, O thou son of man: In the day when I take from them their power, their joy and honour, the lust of their eyes, the burden of their bodies - namely, their sons and daughters -

² Jesus said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be here left one stone upon another, that shall not be cast down."

¹ Why standest thou so far off, O LORD, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble?

¹⁰ O God, how long shall the adversary do this dishonour? How long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name? Forever? ¹¹ Why withdrawest thou thy hand? Why pluckest thou not thy righthand out of thy bosom, to consume thy enemies?

¹⁸ Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy rebuketh, and how the foolish people blaspheme thy name. ¹⁹ O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the beasts, and forget not the congregation of the poor forever.

⁵ LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever?

³ Turn us again, O God: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. ⁴ O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people?

¹ {A song and Psalm of Asaph} Hold not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence; refrain not thyself, O God.

⁴⁶ LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire? ⁴⁷ O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought? ⁴⁸ What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah. ⁴⁹ LORD, where are thy old loving-kindnesses, which thou sworest unto David in thy truth? ⁵⁰ Remember, LORD, the rebuke that the multitude of the people do unto thy servants, and how I have borne it in my bosom; ⁵¹ wherewith thine have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed.

¹⁴ I have long time holden my peace, sayeth the LORD, should I therefore be still, and keep silence for ever? I will cry like a travailing woman, and at once will I destroy, and devour.

¹² Then the LORD's angel gave answer, and said, 'O LORD of Hosts, how long wilt thou be unmerciful to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, with whom thou hast been displeased now these seventy years?'

¹⁰ and they cried with a loud voice saying, "How long tarriest thou Lord holy and true, to judge and to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"