Proverbs 28 Cross References - MSTC

¹ The ungodly fleeth, no man chasing him; but the righteous standeth stiff as a lion. ² Because of sin the land doth oft change her prince; but through men of understanding and wisdom a realm endureth long. ³ One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit. ⁴ They that forsake the law, praise the ungodly; but such as keep the law, abhor them. ⁵ Wicked men discern not the thing that is right, but they that seek after the LORD, discuss all things. ⁶ A poor man leading a godly life, is better than the rich that goeth in froward ways. ⁷ Whoso keepeth the law, is a child of understanding; but he that feedeth riotous men, shameth his father. ⁸ Whoso increaseth his riches by vantage and winning, let him gather them to help the poor withal. ⁹ He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, his prayer shall be abhorred. ¹⁰ Whoso leadeth the righteous in to an evil way, shall fall into his own pit; but the just shall have the good in possession. ¹¹ The rich man thinketh himself to be wise; but the poor that hath understanding, can perceive him well enough. ¹² When righteous men are in prosperity, then doth honour flourish; but when the ungodly come up, the state of men changeth. ¹³ He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper; but who so knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall have mercy. ¹⁴ Well is him that standeth always in awe; as for him that hardeneth his heart, he shall fall into mischief. ¹⁵ Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people. ¹⁶ Where the prince is without understanding, there is great oppression and wrong; but if he be such one as hateth covetousness, he shall long reign. ¹⁷ He that by violence sheddeth any man's blood, shall be a renagade unto his grave; and no man shall be able to succor him. ¹⁸ Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life, shall be safe; but he that goeth froward ways, shall once have a fall. ¹⁹ He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, shall have poverty enough. ²⁰ A faithful man is greatly to be commended, but he that maketh too much haste for to be rich, shall not be unguilty. ²¹ To have respect of persons in judgment is not good: And why? He will do wrong; yea, even for a piece of bread. ²² He that will be rich all too soon, hath an evil eye; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. ²³ He that rebuketh a man, shall find more favour at the last, than he that flattereth him. ²⁴ Who so robbeth his father and mother, and sayeth it is no sin; the same is like unto a murderer. ²⁵ He that is of a proud stomach, stirreth up strife; but he that putteth his trust in the LORD, shall be well fed. ²⁶ He that trusteth in his own heart, is a fool; but he that dealeth wisely, shall be safe. ²⁷ He that giveth unto the poor, shall not want; but he that turneth away his eyes from such as be in necessity, shall suffer great poverty himself. ²⁸ When the ungodly are come up, men are fain to hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.

¹² And Adam answered, "The woman which thou gavest to bear me company, she took me of the tree, and I ate." ¹³ And the LORD God said unto the woman, "Wherefore didst thou so?" And the woman answered, "The serpent deceived me and I ate."

⁹ And the LORD said unto Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?" And he said, "I can not tell, am I my brother's keeper?"

⁶ so that he which sheddeth man's blood, shall have his blood shed by man again: for God made man after his own likeness.

¹⁰ Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt. ¹¹ Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other. ¹² Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan: And Lot in the cities of the plain, and tented till he came to Sodom. ¹³ But the men of Sodom were wicked, and sinned exceedingly against the LORD.

¹⁷ When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish."

⁵ And now be not grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing in your eyes, that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save life. ⁶ For this is the second year of dearth in the land, and five more are behind in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. ⁷ Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. ⁸ So now it was not ye that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me father unto Pharaoh and lord over all his house, and ruler in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly. ¹⁵ And the king of Egypt said unto the midwives of the Hebrews' women, of which the one's name was Shiphrah and the other Puah, ¹⁶ "When ye midwife the women of the Hebrews and see in the birth time that it is a boy, kill it. But if it be a maid, let it live."

²² Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "All the men children that are born, cast into the river; and save the maid children alive."

²² And the enchanters of Egypt did likewise with their enchantments, so that Pharaoh's heart was hardened and did not regard them, as the LORD had said.

¹⁶ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. ¹⁷ Forgive me yet my sin only this once, and pray unto the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death only."

⁸ And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and fall before me and say, 'Get thee out and all the people that are under thee!' And then will I depart." And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.

²³ And the Egyptians followed and went in after them to the midst of the sea, with all Pharaoh's horses, and his chariots and his horsemen.

²¹ Moreover, seek out, among all the people, men of activity which fear God; and men that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten.

¹⁴ If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar that he die.

²⁵ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress him with usury.

² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest, to follow many, turn aside from the truth;

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

³⁶ And thou shalt take none usury of him, nor yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

¹⁷ And I will set my face against you and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when no man followeth you.

³⁶ "'And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them.

⁴⁰ And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers; in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have walked contrary unto me. ⁴¹ Therefore I also will walk contrary unto them, and will bring them into the land of their enemies. And then at the least way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and then they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds. ⁴² "'And I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham, and will think on the land.

³² And the angel of the LORD said unto him, "Wherefore smitest thou thine ass this three times? Behold, I came out to resist thee, for the way is contrary unto me,

¹⁵ and said unto them, "Have ye saved the women alive? ¹⁶ Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD by the reason of Peor: and there followed a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

¹⁴ three ye shall give on this side Jordan and three in the land of Canaan. ¹⁵ And these six free cities shall be for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for him that dwelleth among you, that all they which kill any person unawares, may flee thither. ¹⁶ "'If any man smite another with a weapon of iron that he die, then he is a murderer, and shall die for it. ¹⁷ If he smite him with a throwing stone that he die therewith, then he shall die: For he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore. ¹⁸ If he smite him with a hand weapon of wood that he die therewith, then he shall die: for he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore. ¹⁹ The judge of blood shall slay the murderer, as soon as he findeth him. ²⁰ "'If he thrust him of hate, or hurl at him with laying of wait that he die, ²¹ or smite him with his hand of envy that he die; he that smote him shall die, for he is a murderer. The justice of blood shall slay him as soon as he findeth him. ²² But and if he pushed him by chance and not of hate, or cast at him with any manner of thing and not of laying of wait, ²³ or cast any manner of stone at him that he die therewith, and saw him not, and he cast it upon him and he died, but was not his enemy, neither sought him any harm; ²⁴ then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the executer of blood in such cases. ²⁵ And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the judge of blood, and shall restore him again unto the franchised city whither he was fled. And he shall bide there unto the death of the high priest which was anointed with holy oil. ²⁶ "'But and if he came without the borders of his privileged city whither he was fled, ²⁷ if the blood avenger find him without the borders of his free town, he shall slay the murderer and be guiltless, ²⁸ because he should have bidden in his free town until the death of the high priest, and after the death of the high priest, he shall return again unto the land of his possession. ²⁹ And this shall be an ordinance and a law unto you, among your children after you in all your habitations. ³⁰ Whosoever slayeth, shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses. For one witness shall not answer against one person to put him to death. ³¹ Moreover ye shall take none amends for the life of the murderer, which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to death. ³² Also ye shall take none atonement for him that is fled to a free city, that he should come again and dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. ³³ "'And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it. ³⁴ Defile not therefore the land which ye inhabit, and in the midst of which I also dwell, for I am the LORD which dwell among the children of Israel.'"

¹² If ye shall hearken unto these laws and shall observe and do them, then shall the LORD thy God keep covenant with thee, and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers, ¹³ and will love thee, bless thee and multiply thee: he will bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy field, thy corn, thy wine and thy oil, the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. ¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all nations; there shall be neither man nor woman unfruitful among you, nor anything unfruitful among your cattle.

⁷ When one of thy brethren among you is waxed poor in any of thy cities within thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou harden not thine heart nor shut to thine hand from thy poor brother:

¹⁰ But give him, and let it not grieve thine heart to give. Because that for that thing, the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand to.

⁷ The LORD shall smite thine enemies that rise against thee before thy face. They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

²⁵ And the LORD shall plague thee before thine enemies: Thou shalt come out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them, and shalt be scattered among all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁴ And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light persons which went with him.

² which said unto his mother, "The eleven hundred silverlings that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst and saidst in mine ears: Behold, the silver is with me for I took it away." Then said his mother, "Blessed be thou my son, in the LORD."

¹³ And when Samuel was come to Saul, Saul said unto him, "Blessed be thou in the LORD. I have done the commandment of the LORD." ¹⁴ And Samuel answered, "What meaneth then the bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the noise of the oxen which I hear?" ¹⁵ And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites. For the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God. And the remnant we have destroyed." ¹⁶ But Samuel said to Saul, "Cease, and let me tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night." And he said unto him, "Say on." ¹⁷ And Samuel said, "When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel? And the LORD anointed thee king over Israel. ¹⁸ And then the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said unto thee, 'See that thou utterly destroy those sinners, the Amalekites and fight against them until ye have utterly destroyed them.' ¹⁹ And wherefore hast thou now not obeyed the voice of the LORD: But didst turn to the prey and hast wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD?" ²⁰ And Saul said unto Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and went the way which the LORD sent me; and have brought Agag the king of the Amalekites, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ²¹ And the people took of the spoil, sheep, oxen, and the chiefest of the things which should have been destroyed, to offer unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal." 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. ²³ For rebelliousness is as the sin of witchcraft; and stubbornness is wickedness and idolatry. Because therefore thou hast cast away the word of the LORD, therefore hath the LORD cast away thee also, from being king." ²⁴ Then said Saul to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the mouth of the LORD, and thy words; because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

²⁴ Then said Saul to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the mouth of the LORD, and thy words; because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

³⁰ Then he said, "I have sinned. But yet honour me before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may pray unto the LORD thy God."

¹⁴ And Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who is so faithful among all thy servants as David and thereto the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is had in honour in thine house?

¹⁴ And Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who is so faithful among all thy servants as David and thereto the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is had in honour in thine house? ¹⁵ Have I this day begun first to ask counsel of God for him? God forbid that from me: let not the king put such a thing unto his servant and on all the house of my father. For thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, either less or more."

¹⁷ Then said the king unto his footmen that stood about him, "Turn and slay the priests of the LORD, both because their hand is with David and because they knew when David fled and showed it not to me." But the servants of the king would not move their hands, to run upon the priests of the LORD. ¹⁸ Then said the king to Doeg, "Turn thou and smite the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and ran upon the priests, and slew that same day four score and five persons that did wear each man a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword: both man and woman, child and suckling, with ox, ass and sheep.

¹⁹ Then came the Ziphites to Saul, to Gibeah, saying, "David hideth himself fast by us in strongholds that are in a thicket in the hill of Hachilah on the rightside of the wilderness. ²⁰ Now therefore, sir king, come down with all the lust that thy soul hath to come. And our part shall be to deliver him into the hands of the king." ²¹ Then said Saul, "Blessed are ye in the LORD: for ye have compassion on me.

¹¹ And moreover my father, see yet the tip of thy coat in my hand. And inasmuch as I killed thee not too, when I cut off the tip of thy coat; understand and see that there is neither evil nor rebelliousness in me, and that I have not sinned against thee. And yet thou huntest after my soul to take it.

¹⁹ Now hear therefore, my lord king, the words of thy servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, he shall smell the savour of sacrifice. But and if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD. For they have cast me out from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Hence and go serve other gods.'

⁶ and shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and because he had no pity." ⁷ Then Nathan said to David, "Thou art the man. Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'I anointed thee king over Israel and rid thee out of the hands of Saul.

²³ And they told the king, saying, "Here cometh Nathan the prophet." And when he was come before the king, he made obeisance unto the king upon his face unto the ground,

³² Then said king David, "Call me Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." And when they came before the king, ³³ the king said unto them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and set Solomon my son upon mine own mule and carry him down to Gihon. ³⁴ And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there, to be king over Israel. And then blow ye with a trumpet and say, 'God save king Solomon.' ³⁵ And then come up after him, and let him come and sit upon my seat. For he shall be king in my stead. And him I have commanded to be captain over Israel and Judah." ³⁶ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, "Amen, and so I pray God that the LORD God of my lord the king say so too. ³⁷ And as the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so I pray God he may be with Solomon, and that he make his seat greater than the seat of my lord king David." ³⁸ And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and Pelethites went down, and set Solomon upon king David's mule and led him to Gihon. ³⁹ And Zadok the priest took a horn of oil out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. And they blew a trumpet, and they all said, "God save king Solomon!" ⁴⁰ And all the people came up after him piping with pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the earth rang with the sound of them.

⁴⁷ yet if they turn again unto their hearts in the land where they be in captivity, and return and pray unto thee in the land of them that hold them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have done wickedly and have trespassed,' ⁴⁸ and so turn again unto thee with all their hearts and all their souls in the land of their enemies which hold them captive, and pray unto thee, toward the land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: ⁴⁹ then hear thou their prayer and supplication up to heaven thy dwelling place, and judge their causes,

¹⁰ And the young men that were brought up with him, answered him, saying, "This people that have said unto thee, 'Thy father made our yoke heavy, make thou it us lighter' — thus answer them: 'My little finger shall be weightier than my father's loins!

¹⁴ and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke grievous, but I will make it grievouser. For where my father chastised you with whips, I will chastise you with scorpions."

²⁵ And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign upon Israel, the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned upon Israel two years.

²⁸ And it was the third year of Asa king of Judah, when Baasha slew him, and reigned in his stead.

⁸ The twenty sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and continued two years. ⁹ And his servant Zimri captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah drinking of strong drink, in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah. ¹⁰ And Zimri came and smote him and killed him the twenty seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. ¹¹ And as soon as he was king and sat his seat, he slew all the house of Baasha and left not a pisser against a wall. And thereto he slew all his kin and friends, ¹² and so Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD which he spake to Baasha through Jehu the Prophet; ¹³ for all the sins of Baasha and sins of Elah his son, wherewith they sinned and made Israel sin, to anger the LORD of Israel with their vanities. ¹⁴ The rest of the deeds of Elah and all he did, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ¹⁵ The twenty seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah, the people besieging Gibbethon a city of the Philistines. ¹⁶ And when the people that lay in the siege, heard say how Zimri had conspired, and how he had slain the king also: then all Israel made Omri the captain of the men of war king the same day over Israel even in the host. ¹⁷ And Omri departed from Gibbethon and all Israel with him, and besieged Tirzah. ¹⁸ And when Zimri saw that the city must needs be taken, he went into the palace of the king's house, and set the king's house afire upon himself; and there died, ¹⁹ for his sins which he sinned in doing wickedness in the sight of the LORD, and for walking in the way of Jeroboam and in his sins which he did and made Israel sin. ²⁰ The rest of the Acts of Zimri and the treason that he wrought, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ²¹ Moreover, that same season was Israel divided in twain, for half the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and the other half followed Omri. ²² But the people that followed Omri prevailed against them that followed Tibni the son of Ginath. And so Tibni died and Omri reigned. ²³ The thirty first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel twelve years and he ruled six years in Tirzah. ²⁴ And he bought the hill of Samaria of one Shemer for two hundred talents of silver, and built in the hill, and called the name of the city which he had built Samaria after the name of Shemer, the lord of the hill. ²⁵ And this Omri wrought wickedness in the eyes of the LORD worse than all that were before him, ²⁶ and walked in all the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin, to anger the LORD God of Israel with their vanities. ²⁷ The rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his power that he used, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. ²⁸ And Omri laid him to rest with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. ²⁹ The thirty eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and reigned in Samaria twenty two years.

³ "Get thee hence and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself in the brook Cherith that lieth before Jordan. ⁴ Drink of the river for I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there." ⁵ And he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that lieth before Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh every morning and every evening, and he drank of the brook. ⁷ And it chanced after a while that the brook dried up, because there fell no rain upon the earth. ⁸ Then came the word of the LORD unto him, saying, ⁹ "Up, and get thee to Zarephath a city of Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee." ¹⁰ And he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, there was a widow there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, "Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a dish that I may drink." ¹¹ And as she went to fetch it, he cried to her and said, "Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand." ¹² And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die." ¹³ And Elijah said unto her, "Fear not, but go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first of all, and bring it out to me, and afterward make for thee and thy son. ¹⁴ For thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'The pitcher of meal shall not be wasted, neither shall thy oil cruse be without oil, until the LORD have sent rain upon the earth.'" ¹⁵ And she went and did as Elijah bade. And she and he and her house did eat a good space, ¹⁶ and the pitcher of meal wasted not neither was the oil cruse without oil according to the word of the LORD which he spake through Elijah. ¹⁷ And after these things, it happened that the son of the wife of the house fell sick. And his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. ¹⁸ Then said she unto Elijah, "What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me, that my sin should be thought on and my son slain?" ¹⁹ And Elijah said unto her, "Give me thy son." And he took him out of her lap and carried him up into a loft where he lay, and laid him upon his own bed, ²⁰ and called unto the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, hast thou been so evil unto the widow with whom I sojourn, that thou hast slain her son?" ²¹ And he stretched himself upon the lad three times, and called unto the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, let the lad's soul come into him again." ²² And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the lad came into him again and he revived. ²³ And Elijah took the boy and brought him down out of the chamber into the house and delivered him unto his mother and said, "See, thy son liveth." ²⁴ Then the wife said to Elijah, "Now I know that thou art God's man, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth."

¹³ Was it not told my lord what I did, when Jezebel slew the Prophets of the LORD? How I hid a hundred of the LORD's Prophets, fifty in one cave and as many in another, and provided them of bread and water?

¹⁸ And he said, "It is not I that trouble Israel, but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and hast followed Baal.

²¹ And Elijah came unto all the people and said, "Why halt ye between two opinions? If the LORD be very God, follow him: or if Baal be he, follow him." And the people answered him not one word.

³ When he saw that, he arose and went for his life, and came to Beersheba in Judah, and left his lad there.

⁴¹ And he hasted and took the ashes away from his eyes: and the king of Israel knew him, that he was of the Prophets. ⁴² And he said unto the king, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Because thou hast let go a man that ought to have died, thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his."

¹⁹ And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'"

¹⁹ And say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou hast killed and thereto gotten possession.' And say moreover unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: in the place where dogs lapped the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lap even thy blood also.'" ²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, "Hast thou found me thine enemy at any time?" And he said, "Yea, because thou art utterly given to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD.

²³ And thereto against Jezebel came the word of the LORD, saying, "Dogs shall eat Jezebel, under the walls of Jezreel.

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." ²⁴ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, "How is the spirit of the LORD gone from me, to speak in thee?" ²⁵ And Micaiah said, "Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go from chamber to chamber to hide thee." ²⁶ And the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and carry him back again into Amon the governor of the city, and unto Joab the king's son, ²⁷ and say, 'Thus sayeth the king. Put ye this fellow in the prison house and feed him with bread and water straightly, until I return in peace.'" ²⁸ Then Micaiah said, "If thou come safe again, the LORD hath not spoken in me." And he said moreover, "Hearken to the people every one of you."

²⁴ And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came two bears out of the wood and tare forty two of the boys.

¹³ And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with thee? Get thee to the prophets of thy father and of thy mother." And the king of Israel said unto him, "Oh nay, but hath the LORD called these three kings to deliver them into the hands of the Moabites?" ¹⁴ And Elisha said, "As sure as the LORD of Hosts liveth — in whose sight I stand — and it were not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor yet see ye."

²⁰ And when he was departed from him a furlong of ground, Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, "Behold, my master hath spared Naaman, this Syrian, so that he hath not taken from him that which he brought! As surely as the LORD liveth, I will run after him and take somewhat." ²¹ And so Gehazi went after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him coming after him, he came down off the chariot against him, and said, "Is all well?" ²² And he said, "Yea. But my master hath sent me, saying, 'See, there be two young men come to me out of Ephraim of the children of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, one talent of silver and a couple of good garments." ²³ And Naaman said, "Adventure and take two talents of silver in two bags, with two goodly garments." — and delivered them unto two of his servants, to bear it before him. ²⁴ And he went in the dark and took it of their hands and bestowed it in the house, and let the men go, and they departed. ²⁵ Then he went and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, "Whence cometh Gehazi?" And he said, "Thy servant went no whither." ²⁶ And he said, "Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned and came of his chariot against thee? Is it a time to receive silver and to receive garments, olive trees, vineyards, oxen, sheep, menservants and maidservants? ²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever." And he went out from him a leper as white as snow.

⁶ For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians hear a noise of chariots and a noise of horses, and the noise of a great Host. Insomuch that they said one to another, "See, the king of Israel hath hired against us, the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt, to come upon us." ⁷ And upon that they arose and fled in the dark, and left their tents, their horses, their asses and the field they had pitched even as it was, and fled for their lives.

¹⁵ And they followed after them even unto Jordan: and see, all the way was full of clothes and vessels which the Syrians had cast from them for haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

¹³ And Hazael said, "What is thy servant, which am but a dog, that I should do this great thing?" And Elisha said, "For the LORD hath showed me, that thou shalt be king of Syria."

²⁶ 'I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and of his sons,' said the LORD, 'and I will quite him in this ground,' sayeth the LORD. Now therefore take him and cast him in the plot of ground according to the word of the LORD."

⁸ In the thirty eighth year of Uzziah king of Judah, was Zechariah the son of Jeroboam made king upon Israel in Samaria, and reigned six months; ⁹ and did that displeased the LORD, as did his fathers, and turned not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which made Israel sin. ¹⁰ And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his stead. ¹¹ The rest of the deeds of Zechariah are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ¹² This is the saying that the LORD spake unto Jehu, saying, "Thy sons shall sit on the seat of Israel in the fourth generation." And it came to pass. ¹³ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign the thirty ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned a month in Samaria. ¹⁴ For Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and went to Samaria and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. ¹⁵ The rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the treason which he conspired, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁶ The same time, Menahem destroyed Tappuah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah — because they opened not to him — he smote, and rent all the women with child.

¹⁶ The same time, Menahem destroyed Tappuah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah — because they opened not to him — he smote, and rent all the women with child. ¹⁷ The thirty ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign upon Israel, and continued ten years in Samaria. ¹⁸ And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and turned not all his days from the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which made Israel sin. ¹⁹ And Pul, king of Assyria, came upon the land. And Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, to help him to establish his kingdom. ²⁰ And Menahem raised the money in Israel, upon all men of substance, for to give the king of Assyria fifty sicles of silver apiece. And the king of Assyria turned back again and tarried not there in the land. ²¹ The rest of the deeds of Menahem and all he did, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ²² And when Menahem was laid to rest with his fathers, Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. ²³ The fiftieth year of Uzziah king of Judah, began Pekahiah the son of Menahem to reign over Israel in Samaria, and continued two years, ²⁴ and wrought wickedly in the sight of the LORD and left not off from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat which made Israel sin. ²⁵ And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, a lord of his, conspired against him and slew him in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh and fifty men with him that were Gileadites: and when he had killed him, reigned in his room. ²⁶ The rest of the acts of Pekahiah and all he did are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ²⁷ And the fifty second year of Uzziah king of Judah, began Pekah the son of Remaliah to reign over Israel in Samaria and continued twenty years, ²⁸ and did evil in the sight of the LORD, and turned not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat that made Israel sin. ²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, came Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, and took Ijon, Abelbethmaacah, Janoah, Kadesh, Hazor, Gilead, Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and carried them away to Assyria. ³⁰ And Hoshea the son of Elah conspired treason against Pekah the son of Remaliah and smote him and slew him and reigned in his stead, the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. ³¹ The rest of the acts of Pekah, and all he did, are written in the Stories of the Kings of Israel.

¹⁶ And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

²⁵ And David and the elders of Israel and the Captains over thousands went to fetch the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with gladness. ²⁶ And when God had helped the Levites that bare the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, they offered seven oxen and seven rams. ²⁷ And David had on him an alb of bysse, and so had the Levites that bare the Ark, and so had the singers, and Chenaniah the ruler of the song and of the singers. And David had moreover upon him an Ephod of linen. ²⁸ And all Israel brought the Ark of the LORD's covenant with shouting and blowing of horns, and with trumpets and cymbals that sounded, and with psalteries and harps.

⁷ And that same time David did appoint chiefly to thank the LORD by Asaph and his brethren: ⁸ "Thank the LORD, call on his name, make his acts known among the people! ⁹ Sing unto him and play unto him: and record all his wonderful deeds! ¹⁰ Praise his holy name, and let the hearts of them that seek the LORD rejoice! ¹¹ Seek the LORD and his strength: Seek his presence always! ¹² Remember his marvels which he did, and his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth: ¹³ The seed of Israel are his servants, the children of Jacob are his chosen! ¹⁴ He is the LORD our God: in all lands are his judgments. ¹⁵ Think on his covenant ever, and on the word he commanded to a thousand generations. ¹⁶ Of his covenant to Abraham, and of his oath to Isaac: ¹⁷ which he set before Jacob for a decree, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, saying, ¹⁸ 'To thee I will give the land of Canaan, to be the portion of your inheritance.' ¹⁹ When you were a small company in number, even but a few, and thereto strangers therein. ²⁰ And they went from people to people, and from one kingdom to another nation. ²¹ He suffered no man to do them wrong: But rebuked kings for their sakes. ²² 'Touch not mine anointed, nor do my Prophets any harm.' ²³ Sing unto the LORD all the earth: and show from day to day his victories. ²⁴ Tell among the heathen of his glory: and among all nations of his wonderful deeds. ²⁵ For great is the LORD and to be praised exceedingly: and terrible is he above all Gods. ²⁶ For all the gods of the heathen are idols: But the LORD made heaven! ²⁷ Praise and honour are in his presence: strength and gladness are in his place. ²⁸ Ascribe to the LORD ye kindreds of people; Ascribe to the LORD Glory and strength. ²⁹ Give honour unto the LORD's name: bring presents and come before him, and bow to the LORD in holy apparel. ³⁰ All the earth fear him: he established the earth that it cannot move. ³¹ The heaven rejoice and the earth be glad, and let men tell among the nations that the LORD is a king. ³² Let the sea thunder and his fullness, and let the fields rejoice and all that is therein. ³³ Moreover, let the trees of the wood ring at the presence of the LORD: for he cometh to judge the earth. ³⁴ Thank the LORD for he is good, and his mercy lasteth ever! ³⁵ And say, 'Save us o God our saviour and gather us together and deliver us from among the heathen, to thank thy holy name, and to praise thee with the praise that becometh thee. ³⁶ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever!' And all nations say 'Amen,' so praising the LORD."

²⁰ And David said to all the congregation, "Bless the LORD your God." And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and stooped and bowed themselves unto the LORD and to the king. ²¹ And they offered offerings unto the LORD. And on the morrow after the said day, they offered in burnt offerings unto the LORD a thousand oxen, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs with their drink offerings. ²² And they slew plenteously throughout all Israel, and did eat and drink before the LORD the same day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king of Israel the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD, to be ruler, and Zadok to be the priest.

¹⁰ And the twenty third day of the seventh month, he let the people depart unto their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had showed to David, to Solomon and to Israel his people.

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. ²² And so Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, "The LORD see, and require a reckoning!" ²³ And when the year was out, the host of the Syrians came against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the lords of the people from among the people and sent all the spoil of them unto the king to Damascus. ²⁴ And though the army of Syria came with a small company of men, yet the LORD delivered a very great host into their hands, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. And thereto they served Joash according. ²⁵ And as soon as they were departed from him, though they left him in great diseases: yet his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the children of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed. And when he was dead, they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchers of the kings.

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.

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.

¹ And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king for his father in Jerusalem. ² And Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. ³ For the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem and merced the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ⁴ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king upon Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name unto Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz his brother, Neco took and carried him to Egypt. ⁵ And Jehoiakim was twenty five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that displeased the LORD his God. ⁶ Against him came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. ⁷ Thereto the king Nebuchadnezzar carried off the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon. ⁸ The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his Abominations, and that was laid to his charge, are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. ⁹ Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and did that displeased the LORD. ¹⁰ And when the year was out, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and fetched him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem. ¹¹ And Zedekiah was twenty one years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. ¹² And he did that displeased the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet at the mouth of the LORD.

⁷ and I advised so in my mind, that I rebuked the councilors and the rulers, and said unto them, "Will ye require usury one of another?" And I brought a great congregation against them, ⁸ and said unto them, "We, after our ability, have bought our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen. And will ye sell your brethren, whom we have bought unto us?" Then held they their peace, and could find nothing to answer. ⁹ Also I said, "It is not good, that ye do. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of God because of the rebuke of the Heathen our enemies? ¹⁰ I and my brethren, and my servants have lent them money and corn: but as for usury, let us leave it. ¹¹ Therefore this same day see that ye restore them their lands again, their vineyards, oil gardens, and houses, and the hundredth part of the money of the corn, wine, and oil, that ye have won of them." ¹² Then said they, "We will restore them again and will require nothing of them and will do as thou hast spoken." And I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do so. ¹³ And I shook my lap, and said, "God shake out every man after the same manner from his house and labour, that maintaineth not this word: even thus be he shaken out, and void." And all the congregation said, "Amen," and praised the LORD. And the people did so.

¹⁵ For the old captains that were before me, had been chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, and forty sicles of silver: yea and their servants had oppressed the people. But so did not I, and that because of the fear of God.

² And I commanded my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace at Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God more than did many others,

⁸ and it grieved me sore, and I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chest, ⁹ and commanded them to cleanse the chest. And thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, the meat offering and the incense. ¹⁰ And I perceived that the portions of the Levites were not given them, for the which cause the Levites and singers were fled, everyone, to his land for to work. ¹¹ Then reproved I the rulers, and said, "Why forsake we the house of God?" But I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

¹⁵ At the same time saw I some treading wine presses on the Sabbath and bringing in clusters, and asses laden with wine, grapes, figs, and bringing all manner of burdens unto Jerusalem, upon the Sabbath day. And I rebuked them earnestly the same day that they sold the victuals.

¹⁷ Then reproved I the rulers in Judah, and said unto them, "What evil thing is this that ye do, and break the Sabbath day? ¹⁸ Did not our fathers even thus, and our God brought all this plague upon us and upon this city? And ye make the wrath more yet upon Israel, in that ye break the Sabbath." ¹⁹ And it fortuned, that when the ports of Jerusalem began to be dark in the evening before the Sabbath, I commanded to shut the gates, and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day. ²⁰ Then remained the chapmen and merchants once or twice overnight without Jerusalem with all manner of wares.

²³ And at the same time saw I Jews, that married wives of Ashdod, Ammon, and of Moab; ²⁴ and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of the one people and the other people. ²⁵ And I reproved them, and cursed them, and smote certain men of them, and plucked them up, and took an oath of them by God, "Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. ²⁶ Did not Solomon the king of Israel sin therein? And yet among many Heathen was there no king like him, and he was dear unto his God, and God made him king over all Israel, and yet nevertheless outlandish women caused him to sin?

²⁸ And one of the children of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, had made a contract with Sanballat the Horonite: but I chased him from me.

⁶ and thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: for they had showed him the nation of Mordecai. Wherefore, he sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus and were of the nation of Mordecai. ⁷ In the first month, that is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus they cast Pur - that is, a lot - before Haman, on what day and what month this should be done: and it went out the twelfth month, that is the month Adar. ⁸ And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, "There is a people scattered abroad and dispersed among all people in all the lands of thine empire, and their law is contrary unto all people, and they do not after the king's laws, neither is it the king's profit to suffer them after this manner. ⁹ If it please the king, let him write that they may be destroyed, and so will I weigh down ten thousand talents of silver, under the hands of the workmen, to be brought into the king's chamber." ¹⁰ Then took the king his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

¹⁵ As for Mordecai, he went out from the king in royal apparel of yellow and white, and with a great crown of gold, being arrayed with a garment of linen and purple, and the city of Susa rejoiced and was glad: ¹⁶ but unto the Jews was come light and gladness, and joy, and worship. ¹⁷ And in all lands and cities, into what places soever the king's word and commandment reached, there was joy and mirth, prosperity and good days among the Jews: insomuch that many of the people in the land became of the Jews' belief: for the fear of the Jews came upon them.

¹⁷ And in all lands and cities, into what places soever the king's word and commandment reached, there was joy and mirth, prosperity and good days among the Jews: insomuch that many of the people in the land became of the Jews' belief: for the fear of the Jews came upon them.

⁴ He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength. Who ever prospered that took part against him?

¹⁸ But he shall labour, and yet have nothing to eat. Great travail shall he make for riches, but he shall not enjoy them. ¹⁹ And why? He hath oppressed the poor, and not helped them: houses hath he spoiled, and not builded them. ²⁰ His belly could never be filled; therefore shall he perish in his covetousness. ²¹ He devoured so greedily that he left nothing behind; therefore his goods shall not prosper. ²² Though he had plenteousness of everything, yet was he poor, and therefore he is but a wretch on every side.

²⁸ Then, look what thou takest in hand: he shall make it to prosper with thee, and the light shall shine in thy ways. ²⁹ For who so humbleth himself, him shall he set up: and who so looketh meekly, shall be healed. ³⁰ If thou be innocent, he shall save thee: and through the unguiltiness of thine hands shalt thou be delivered."

⁴ that thrust the poor out of the way, and oppress the simple of the world together.

¹⁶ Though he have as much money as the dust of the earth, and raiment as ready as the clay, ¹⁷ he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.

²⁸ And unto man he said, 'Behold, to fear the LORD is wisdom: and to forsake evil, is understanding.'"

¹¹ When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good. ¹² "For I delivered the poor when he cried, and the fatherless that wanted help. ¹³ He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me. ¹⁴ And why? I put upon me righteousness, which covered me as a garment, and equity was my crown. ¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame; ¹⁶ I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently. ¹⁷ I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. ¹⁸ "Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea. ¹⁹ For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn. ²⁰ My honor increased more and more, and my bow was ever the stronger in my hand.

³³ "Have I kept secret my sin, and hid mine iniquity as Adam did?

⁹ Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.

²⁷ Such a respect hath he unto men. Therefore let a man confess, and say, 'I offended, but he hath chastened and reformed me: I did unrighteously nevertheless he hath not recompensed me thereafter.

¹¹ Serve the LORD in fear, and rejoice unto him in reverence.

¹⁵ He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others. ¹⁶ For his travail shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

¹⁵ The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

³ For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

⁸ I have set the LORD always before me; for he is on my righthand. Therefore I shall not fall.

¹⁴ The secret of the LORD is among them that fear him, and he showeth them his covenant.

²¹ Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope hath been in thee.

¹¹ But as for me, I will walk innocently: O deliver me, and be merciful unto me.

¹ {A Psalm of David} The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom then should I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid? ² When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

³ For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining. ⁴ For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah. ⁵ I will acknowledge my sin unto thee; and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. I said, "I will confess my sins unto the LORD." And so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Selah.

¹¹ But the meek spirited shall possess the earth, and shall be refreshed in the multitude of peace.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread. ²⁶ The righteous is ever merciful, and lendeth gently; therefore shall his seed be blessed.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Blessed is he, that considereth the poor; the LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble. ² The LORD shall preserve him, and keep him alive: he shall make him to prosper upon earth, and shall not deliver him into the will of his enemies. ³ The LORD shall refresh him, when he lieth sick upon his bed, yea thou makest his bed in all his sickness.

² Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea; ³ Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. Selah.

¹⁸ For while he lived, he counted himself a happy man; and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee.

¹ {To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. ² Wash me well from my wickedness, and cleanse me from my sin. ³ For I acknowledge my faults, and my sin is ever before me. ⁴ Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and clear when thou shalt judge. ⁵ Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

¹⁰ Make in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

⁵ They are afraid where no fear is; for God breaketh the bones of them that besiege thee. Thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them.

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

¹⁸ Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them. ¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end! ²⁰ Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

¹¹ For the LORD God is a light and defense; the LORD will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life. ¹² O LORD God of Hosts, blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee.

⁶ An unwise man will not know this, and a fool will not understand it —

⁸ Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

⁶ Mine eyes shall look for such as be faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life, he shall be my servant.

⁷ When sentence is given upon him, let him be condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.

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

⁴ Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness: he is merciful, loving and righteous. ⁵ A good man is merciful, and lendeth gladly, and pondereth his words with discretion. ⁶ For he shall never be moved, and the righteous shall be had in an everlasting remembrance. ⁷ He will not be afraid of any evil tidings, for his heart standeth fast, and believeth in the LORD.

⁷ He will not be afraid of any evil tidings, for his heart standeth fast, and believeth in the LORD. ⁸ His heart is stablished, and will not shrink, until he sees his desire upon his enemies. ⁹ He hath dispersed abroad, and given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honor.

¹⁰⁰ Yea, I am wiser than the aged, for I keep thy commandments.

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.

⁵ Let the righteous rather smite me friendly, and reprove me: so will I take it as though he had poured oil on my head; it shall not hurt my head. Yea, I will pray yet for their wickedness.

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and keep my commandments by thee, ² that thou wilt incline thin ears unto wisdom; apply thine heart then to understanding. ³ For if thou criest after wisdom, and callest for knowledge; ⁴ If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures; ⁵ then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For it is the LORD that giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

¹ My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments. ² For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace. ³ Let mercy and faithfulness never go from thee: bind them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thine heart. ⁴ So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and men. ⁵ Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

⁵ Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. ⁶ In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings. ⁷ Be not wise in thine own conceit, but fear the LORD, and depart from evil: ⁸ so shall thy navel be whole, and thy bones strong. ⁹ Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstlings of all thine increase: ¹⁰ So shall thy barns be filled with plenteousness, and thy presses shall flow over with sweet wine. ¹¹ My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD, neither faint when thou are rebuked of him. ¹² For whom the LORD loveth, him he chasteneth: and yet delighteth in him even as a father in his own son. ¹³ Well is him that findeth wisdom, and obtaineth understanding, ¹⁴ for the getting of it is better than any merchandise of silver, and the profit of it is better than gold. ¹⁵ Wisdom is more worth than precious stones, and all the things that thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. ¹⁶ Upon her righthand is long life, and upon her left hand is riches and honour. ¹⁷ Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peaceable. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and blessed are they that keep her fast. ¹⁹ With wisdom hath the LORD laid the foundation of the earth, and through understanding hath he established the heavens. ²⁰ Through his wisdom the depths break up, and the clouds drop down of the dew. ²¹ My son, let not these things depart from thine eyes, but keep my law and my counsel: ²² So shall it be life unto thy soul, and grace unto thy mouth. ²³ Then shalt thou walk safely in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble. ²⁴ If thou sleepest thou shalt not be afraid, but shall take thy rest and sleep sweetly. ²⁵ Thou needest not to be afraid of any sudden fear, neither for the violent rushing of the ungodly, when it cometh. ²⁶ For the LORD shall be beside thee, and keep thy foot that thou be not taken. ²⁷ Refuse not to do good unto him that should have it, so long as thine hand is able to do it. ²⁸ Say not unto thy neighbour, "Go thy way and come again, tomorrow will I give thee" ²⁹ whereas thou hast now to give him. Intend no hurt unto thy neighbour, seeing he hopeth to dwell in rest by thee. ³⁰ Strive not lightly with any man, wher as he hath done thee no harm. ³¹ Follow not a wicked man, and choose none of his ways: ³² for the LORD abhorreth the froward, but his secret is among the righteous. ³³ The curse of the LORD is in the house of the ungodly, but he blesseth the dwellings of the righteous. ³⁴ As for the scornful, he shall laugh them to scorn, but he shall give grace unto the lowly. ³⁵ The wise shall have honour in possession, but shame is the promotion that fools shall have.

³ The LORD will not let the soul of the righteous suffer hunger; but he putteth the ungodly from his desire.

⁶ Loving and favorable is the face of the righteous; but the forehead of the ungodly is past shame, and presumptuous.

⁹ He that leadeth an innocent life, walketh surely; but whoso goeth a wrong way, shall be known.

¹² Evil will stirreth up strife; but love covereth the multitude of sins.

²⁵ The ungodly is like a tempest that passeth over, and is no more seen; but the righteous remaineth sure forever.

³ The innocent dealing of the just shall lead them; but the unfaithfulness of the despisers shall be their own destruction. ⁴ Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death. ⁵ The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness. ⁶ The righteousness of the just shall deliver them; but the despisers shall be taken in their own ungodliness.

¹⁰ When it goeth well with the righteous, the city is merry; and when the ungodly perish, there is gladness.

²⁴ Some man giveth out his goods, and is richer; but the niggard, having enough, will depart from nothing, and yet is ever in poverty. ²⁵ He that is liberal in giving, shall have plenty; and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself. ²⁶ Whoso hordeth up his corn, shall be cursed among the people; but blessing shall light upon his head that selleth it.

¹¹ He that tilleth his land, shall have plenteousness of bread; but he that followeth idleness, is a very fool.

⁴ The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.

¹⁰ Among the proud there is ever strife; but among those that do all things with advisement, there is wisdom. ¹¹ Hastily gotten goods are soon spent; but they that be gathered together with the hand, shall increase.

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wise men, shall be wise; but whoso is a companion of fools shall be hurt.

²² which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

⁴ Where no oxen are, there the crib is empty; but where the oxen labour there is much fruit.

³¹ He that doth a poor man wrong, blasphemeth his maker; but whoso hath pity of the poor, doth honour unto God.

⁶ In the house of the righteous are great riches; but the increase of the ungodly are nigh destruction.

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

¹⁸ An angry man stirreth up strife; but he that is patient stilleth discord.

²⁴ The way of life leadeth unto heaven; that a man should beware of hell beneath.

³⁰ Like as the clearness of the eyes rejoiceth the heart; so doth a good name feed the bones.

⁸ Better it is to have a little thing with righteousness, than great rents wrongfully gotten.

⁵ Whoso laugheth the poor to scorn, blasphemeth his maker; and he that is glad of another man's hurt, shall not be unpunished.

⁹ Whoso covereth another man's offense, seeketh love; but he that discloseth the fault, setteth friends at variance.

¹² It were better to come against a she Bear robbed of her whelps, than against a fool in his foolishness.

⁵ It is not good to regard the person of the ungodly, or to put back the righteous in judgment.

⁹ Whoso is slothful and slack in his labor, is the brother of him that is a waster.

¹¹ But the rich man's goods are his stronghold, yea he taketh them for a high wall round about him.

¹⁷ The righteous accuseth himself first of all; if his neighbour come, he shall find him.

¹ Better is the poor that liveth godly, than the blasphemer that is but a fool.

⁷ As for the poor, he is hated among all his brethren; yea, his own friends forsake him, and he that giveth credence unto words, getteth nothing.

¹² The king's disfavor is like the roaring of a Lion, but his friendship is like the dew upon the grass.

¹⁷ He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the LORD; and look, what he layeth out, it shall be paid him again.

²² It is a man's worship to do good; and better it is to be a poor man, than a dissembler.

²⁶ He that hurteth his father or shutteth out his mother, is a shameful and an unworthy son.

² The king ought to be feared as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him unto anger, offendeth against his own soul.

⁶ Many there be that would be called good-doers; but where shall one find a true faithful man?

²¹ The heritage that cometh too hastily at the first, shall not be praised at the end.

¹³ Whoso stoppeth his ear at the crying of the poor; he shall cry himself and not be heard.

²⁰ In a wise man's house there is great treasure and plenteousness; but a foolish body spendeth up all.

²⁴ He that is proud and presumptuous, is called a scornful man, which in wrath dare work maliciously.

⁹ A loving eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread unto the poor. ¹⁰ Cast out the scornful man, and so shall strife go out with him; yea, variance and slander shall cease.

⁴ Take not over great travail and labour to be rich, beware of such a purpose.

⁶ Eat not thou with the envious, and desire not his meat,

¹⁷ Let not thine heart be jealous to follow sinners; but keep thee still in the fear of the LORD all the day long:

¹⁹ My son, give ear and be wise, so shall thine heart prosper in the way. ²⁰ Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh;

²⁰ Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh; ²¹ for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.

²¹ for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat. ²² Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.

⁷ Wisdom is a high thing; yea, even to the fool, for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.

²³ These are also the sayings of the wise. It is not good to have respect of any person in judgment. ²⁴ He that sayeth unto the ungodly, "Thou art righteous," him shall the people curse; yea, the commonality shall abhor him.

⁵ but make the fool an answer to his foolishness, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

¹⁶ The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.

²⁷ Whoso diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein; and he that weltereth a stone, shall stumble upon it himself.

⁵ An open rebuke is better than secret love. ⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a lover, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

²³ See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks. ²⁴ For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever. ²⁵ The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains. ²⁶ The lambs shall clothe thee, and for the goats thou shalt have money to thy husbandry. ²⁷ Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.

⁶ A poor man leading a godly life, is better than the rich that goeth in froward ways. ⁷ Whoso keepeth the law, is a child of understanding; but he that feedeth riotous men, shameth his father.

¹² When righteous men are in prosperity, then doth honour flourish; but when the ungodly come up, the state of men changeth.

¹⁸ Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life, shall be safe; but he that goeth froward ways, shall once have a fall.

²⁰ A faithful man is greatly to be commended, but he that maketh too much haste for to be rich, shall not be unguilty.

²² He that will be rich all too soon, hath an evil eye; and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

²⁴ Who so robbeth his father and mother, and sayeth it is no sin; the same is like unto a murderer.

²⁸ When the ungodly are come up, men are fain to hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.

¹ He that is stiff necked and will not be reformed, shall suddenly be destroyed without any help. ² Where the righteous have the over hand, the people are in prosperity; but where the ungodly beareth rule, there the people mourn. ³ Whoso loveth wisdom, maketh his father a glad man; but he that keepeth harlots, spendeth away that he hath.

⁵ Whoso flattereth his neighbour, layeth a net for his feet.

¹⁵ The rod and correction minister wisdom; but if a child be not looked unto, he bringeth his mother to shame.

²² An angry man stirreth up strife; and he that beareth evil will in his mind, doth much evil.

²⁵ He that feareth men, shall have a fall; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall come to honour.

²⁶ He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.

¹ So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done under the Sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed; and there was no man to comfort them or that would deliver and defend them from the violence of their oppressors.

¹⁵ And in the city there was found a poor man - but he was wise - which with his wisdom delivered the city: yet was there no body, that had any respect for such a simple man.

¹⁵ And in the city there was found a poor man - but he was wise - which with his wisdom delivered the city: yet was there no body, that had any respect for such a simple man. ¹⁶ Then said I, "Wisdom is better than strength." Nevertheless, a simple man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. ¹⁷ A wise man's counsel that is followed in silence, is far above the crying of a captain among fools.

⁵ Another plague is there, which I have seen under the sun; namely, the ignorance that is commonly among princes: ⁶ in that a fool sitteth in great dignity, and the rich are set down beneath.

⁸ But he that diggeth up a pit, shall fall therein himself; and whoso breaketh down the hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

¹⁶ Woe be unto thee, O thou realm and land, whose king is but a child, and whose princes are early at their banquets.

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.

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.

¹ For lo, shall the LORD God of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah all possessions and power, all meat and drink, ² the captain and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the wise and the aged man, ³ the captain of fifty and the honorable, the senators and men of understanding, the masters of crafts and orators. ⁴ And I shall give you children to be your princes, sayeth the LORD, and babes shall have the rule of you. ⁵ One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable. ⁶ Yea, one shall take a friend of his own kindred by the bosom, and say, "Thou hast clothing, thou shalt be our head, for thou mayest keep us from this fall and peril." ⁷ Then shall he swear and say, "I cannot help you. Moreover, there is neither meat nor clothing in my house, make me no ruler of the people."

¹² Children are extortioners of my people, and women have rule of them. O my people, thy leaders deceive thee, and tread out the way of thy footsteps.

²¹ Woe be unto them that are wise in their own sight, and think themselves to have understanding.

² Now when the house of David - that is Ahaz - heard word thereof, that Syria and Ephraim were confederate together: His heart quaked, yea and the hearts also of his people, like as a tree in the field that is moved with the wind.

¹³ For he standeth thus in his own conceit: "This do I, through the power of my own hand, and through my wisdom: For I am wise, I am he that removes the lands of the people, I rob their princes: and like one of the worthies I drive them from their high seats. ¹⁴ My hand hath found out the Hosts of the people, as it were a nest. And like as eggs, that were laid here and there, are gathered together: So do I gather all countries. And there is no man, that dare be so bold as to touch a feather, that dare open his mouth, or once whisper."

³ And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in hand: shall provide for peace, even the peace that men hope for in thee. ⁴ Hope still in the LORD, for in the LORD God is everlasting strength.

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. ¹⁶ He it is, that shall dwell on high; whose safeguard shall be in the true rock, to him shall be given the right true meat and drink.

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? ⁸ Then should the light break out as doth the dayspring, and then health should shortly bud out. And thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the LORD would come upon thee. ⁹ Then shouldest thou call, and the LORD answer; then shouldest thou cry, and he shall say, "Lo, here am I. For I the LORD thy God am merciful." ¹⁰ Yea If thou layest away thy burdens, and holdest thy fingers, and ceasest from blasphemous talking; if thou hast compassion upon the hungry, and refreshest the troubled soul: Then shall thy light spring out in the darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noon day. 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.

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. ¹² Then the places that have ever been waste, shall be builded of thee: there shalt thou lay a foundation for many kindreds. Thou shalt be called the maker-up of hedges, and the builder-again of the way of the Sabbath.

² As for these things, my hand hath made them all, and they are all created, sayeth the LORD. Which of them shall I then regard? Even him that is of a lowly troubled spirit, and standeth in awe of my works.

²² Yea, and that so sore, that though thou washest thee with Nitre and makest thyself to savour with that sweet smelling herb of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stained with thy wickedness, sayeth the LORD thy God. ²³ Say not now, 'I am not unclean, and I have not followed Baal.' Look upon thy own ways in the woods, valleys and dens: so shalt thou know, what thou hast done. Thou art like a swift Dromedary that goeth easily his way:

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.

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."

¹ Look through Jerusalem, behold and see. Seek through her streets also within, if ye can find one man, that doth equal and right, or that laboureth to be faithful: and I shall spare him, sayeth the LORD.

³⁰ Horrible and grievous things are done in the land.

⁷ O Blessed is the man that putteth his trust in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is himself. ⁸ For he shall be as a tree, that is planted by the waterside: which spreadeth out the root unto moistness, whom the heat cannot harm, when it cometh, but his leaves are green. And though there grow but little fruit because of drought yet is he not careful, but he never leaveth off to bring forth fruit. ⁹ Among all things living, man hath the most deceitful and unsearchable heart. Who shall then know it?

⁴ For thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will make thee afraid, thee thyself and all that favour thee: which shall perish with the sword of their enemies, even before thy face. And I will give whole Judah under the power of the king of Babylon, which shall carry some unto Babylon, prisoners, and slay some with the sword.

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.'"

⁴⁰ And I will set up an everlasting covenant with them; Namely: that I will never cease to do them good, and that I will put my fear in their hearts, so that they shall not run away from me.

²⁶ but commanded Jerahmeel the son of Amalek, and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to lay hands on Baruch the Scribe, and upon Jeremiah the Prophet: but the LORD kept them out of sight.

¹⁹ and dishonour me to my people for a handful of barley, and for a piece of bread. When ye kill the souls of them that die not, and promise life to them that live not: Thus ye dissemble with my people, that believeth your lies.

⁸ he lendeth nothing upon usury; he taketh nothing over; he withdraweth his hand from doing wrong; he handleth faithfully betwixt man and man;

¹³ he lendeth upon usury, and taketh moreover. Shall this man live? He shall not live. Seeing he hath done all these abominations, he shall die: his blood shall be upon him.

¹⁷ he opresseth not the poor; he receiveth no usury, nor anything over; he keepeth my laws, and walketh in my commandments: this man shall not die in his father's sin, but shall live without fail.

³ Behold, thou thinkest thyself wiser than Daniel, that there is no secrets hid from thee. ⁴ With thy wisdom and thy understanding, thou hast gotten thee great wealthiness, and gathered treasure of silver and gold. ⁵ With thy great wisdom and occupying, hast thou increased thy power, and because of thy great riches, thy heart is proud.

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, an said, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we ought not to consent unto thee in this matter. For why? ¹⁷ Our God whom we serve, is able to keep us from the hot burning oven, O king, and can right well deliver us out of thy hands: ¹⁸ And if he will not, yet shalt thou know, O king, that we will not serve thy Gods, nor do reverence to the Image which thou hast set up."

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."

¹⁰ Now when Daniel understood that the writing was made, he went into his house: and the windows of his hall toward Jerusalem stood open. There kneeled he down upon his knees, three times a day: there he made his petition, and praised his God, like as his manner was to do afore time. ¹¹ Then these men made search, and found Daniel making his petition and praying unto his God.

²⁰ As I was yet speaking at my prayers, knowledging mine own sins, and the sins of my people, making so mine intercession before the LORD my God, for the holy hill's sake of my God: ²¹ Yea, while I was yet speaking in my prayer, behold, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen afore in the vision, came flying to me, and touched me about the offering time in the evening. ²² He informed me, and spake unto me, "O Daniel," said he, "I am now come, to make thee understand it: ²³ For as soon as thou begannest to make thy prayer, it was so devised, and therefore am I come to show thee. And why? For thou art a man greatly beloved. Wherefore, ponder the matter well, that thou mayest learn to understand the vision.

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

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of the law. For why? They follow the doctrines of men.

⁸ I will come upon them as a she bear, that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break that stubborn heart of theirs. There will I devour them as a lion: yea the wild beast shall tear them.

¹¹ Well, I gave thee a king in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take him from thee again.

¹ O hear this word, ye fat cows, that be upon the hill of Samaria; yea, that do poor men wrong, and oppress the needy; yea, that say to your lords, 'Bring hither, let us drink.'

⁵ And as concerning the prophets that deceive my people, thus the LORD sayeth against them: When they have any thing to bite upon, then they preach that all shall be well. But if a man put not some thing in to their mouths, they preach of war against him.

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.

¹¹ Nevertheless, they would not take heed, but turned their backs and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. ¹² Yea, they made their hearts as an Adamant stone lest they should hear the law and words, which the LORD of Hosts sent in his holy spirit by the prophets afore time. Wherefore the LORD of Hosts was very wroth at them. 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,

¹⁶ Then Herod, perceiving that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, as many as were two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the wise men.

⁶ and were baptised of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. 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?

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: ⁹ And see that you think not to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father': for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 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.

¹⁵ Jesus answered and said to him, "Let it be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he suffered him.

³³ But rather, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and the righteousness thereof; and all these things shall be ministered unto you.

⁴ For John said unto him, "It is not lawful for thee to have her."

⁴ For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.' ⁵ But ye say, 'Every man shall say to his father or mother: That which thou desirest of me to help thee with, is given God.' ⁶ And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions.

¹⁵ "Moreover, if thy brother trespass against thee, Go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone. If he hear thee, thou hast won thy brother:

²⁸ And the said servant went out and found one of his fellows, which owed him a hundred pence. And laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me that thou owest.' ²⁹ And his fellow fell down, and besought him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.' ³⁰ And he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do as me listeth, with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

²⁵ Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye which make clean the outer side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are full of bribery and excess. ²⁶ Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first, that the inside of the cup and the platter, that the outside of them may also be clean. ²⁷ Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto painted tombs which appear beautiful outwards: but are within full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. ²⁸ So are ye, for outward ye appear righteous unto men, when within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

⁴ saying, "I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that." ⁵ And he cast down the silver plates in the temple, and departed, and went and hung himself.

¹⁰ And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked him of the similitude. ¹¹ And he said unto them, "To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: But unto them that are without, shall all things be done in similitudes: ¹² that when they see, they shall see, and not discern: and when they hear they shall hear, and not understand: lest at any time they should turn, and their sins should be forgiven them." ¹³ And he said unto them, "Perceive ye not this similitude? How then should ye understand all other similitudes?

²¹ For from within even out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts: adultery, fornication, murder, ²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

²² theft, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, uncleanness, and a wicked eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile a man."

²⁷ And Jesus said unto them, "All ye shall be offended through me this night. For it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.' ²⁸ But after that I am risen again I will go into Galilee before you." ²⁹ Peter said unto him, "And though all men should be offended, yet would not I." ³⁰ And Jesus said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee this day even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice." ³¹ And he spake bolder, "No, if I should die with thee, I will not deny thee." Likewise also said they all.

⁴² And the Lord said, "If there be any faithful servant, and wise, whom his Lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their duty of meat, at due season:

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.'

¹² and the younger of them said to his father, father, give me my part of the goods that to me belongeth. And he divided unto them his substance. ¹³ And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.

¹³ And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living. ¹⁴ And when he had spent all that he had, there rose a great dearth throughout all that same land. And he began to lack. ¹⁵ And he went, and clave to a citizen of that same country, which sent him to his field, to keep his swine. ¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the cods, that the swine ate: and no man gave him. ¹⁷ Then he came to himself and said, 'How many hired servants at my father's have bread enough, and I die for hunger. ¹⁸ I will arise, and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.' ²⁰ And he arose, and went to his father. And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran unto him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. ²¹ And the son said unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy henceforth to be called thy son.' ²² But his father said to his servants, 'Bring forth that best garment, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet. ²³ And bring hither that fatted calf, and kill him, and let us eat and be merry: ²⁴ for this my son was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is now found.' And they began to be merry.

³⁰ but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy goods with harlots, thou hast for his pleasure killed the fatted calf.'

¹ And he said also unto his disciples, "There was a certain rich man, which had a steward, that was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

¹⁰ He that is faithful in that which is least: the same is faithful in much. ¹¹ So then if ye have not been faithful in the wicked mammon, who will believe you in that which is true? ¹² And if ye have not been faithful in another man's business: who shall give you your own? ¹³ No servant can serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God, and mammon." ¹⁴ All these things heard the Pharisees also which were covetous. And they mocked him,

¹⁹ "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day. 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. ²² And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell. ²³ And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom;

³⁷ And when he was now come where he should go down from the Mount Olivet, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice, and to laud God with a loud voice, for all the miracles that they had seen, ³⁸ saying, "Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest."

¹⁷ If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God: or whether I speak of myself.

¹³ When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were unlearned men and lay people, they marveled: and they knew them, that they were with Jesus.

²² And the people gave a shout, saying, "It is the voice of a god and not of a man." ²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. ²⁴ And the word of God grew and multiplied.

⁸ But the sorcerer Elymas — for so was his name by interpretation — withstood them, and sought to turn away the ruler from the faith. ⁹ Then Saul, which also is called Paul, being full of the holy ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, ¹⁰ "O full of all subtlety and deceitfulness, and child of the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness: thou ceasest not to pervert the straight ways of the Lord.

³ Long time abode they there and quit themselves boldly with the help of the Lord, the which gave testimony unto the word of his grace; And caused signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

² And when there was risen dissension and disputing not a little unto Paul and Barnabas, against them: they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should ascend to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

⁹ When divers waxed hard hearted, and believed not, but spake evil of the way of the Lord, and that before the multitude: he departed from them; And separated the disciples away; And disputed daily in the school of one called Tyrannus.

² When Paul was called forth; Tertullus began to accuse him saying, "Seeing that we live in great quietness by the means of thee and that many good things are done unto this nation through thy providence: ³ that allow we ever and in all places, most mighty Felix with all thanks. ⁴ Notwithstanding, that I be not tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy courtesy a few words.

²⁴ And after a certain days came Felix, and his wife Drusilla which was a Jewess, and called forth Paul, and heard him of the faith which is toward Christ. 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." ²⁶ He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul that he might loose him, wherefore he called him the oftener, and communed with him. ²⁷ But after two years came Festus Porcius into Felix's room: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul in prison bound.

²⁰ but showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Jewry, and to the gentiles, that they should repent, and turn to God, and do the right works of repentance.

⁴ When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "This man must needs be a murderer: Whom, though he have escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live."

³² Which men, though they knew the righteousness of God, how that they which such things commit are worthy of death: yet not only do the same, but also have pleasure in them that do them.

⁴ Either despisest thou the riches of his goodness and patience, and long sufferance? And rememberest not how that the kindness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

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

²⁰ Thou sayest well: because of unbelief they are broken off, and thou standest steadfast in faith. Be not high minded, but fear:

²⁵ I would not that this secret should be hid from you my brethren, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits: that partly blindness is happened in Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles be come in.

¹⁶ Be of like affection one towards another. Be not high minded, but make yourselves equal to them of the lower sort. Be not wise in your own opinions.

¹⁷ I beseech you, brethren: mark them which cause division, and give occasions of evil contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. ¹⁸ For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:

¹⁸ For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:

¹⁴ For the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are but foolishness unto him: Neither can he perceive them, because he is spiritually examined. ¹⁵ But he that is spiritual discusseth all things: yet he himself is judged of no man.

¹⁸ Let no man deceive himself. If any man seem wise among you, let him be a fool in this world, that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He compasseth the wise in their craftiness."

² Furthermore it is required of the stewards that they be found faithful. ³ With me is it but a very small thing, that I should be judged of you, either of man's day. No I judge not mine own self. ⁴ I know nought by myself: yet am I not thereby justified. It is the Lord that judgeth me. ⁵ Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, which will lighten things that are hid in darkness: and open the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.

⁶ This yet remember, how that he which soweth little, shall reap little: and he that soweth plenteously shall reap plenteously. ⁷ And let every man do according as he hath purposed in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity. For God loveth a cheerful giver. ⁸ God is able to make you rich in all grace, that ye in all things having sufficient unto the utmost, may be rich unto all manner good works, ⁹ as it is written, "He that dispersed abroad and hath given to the poor, his righteousness remaineth for ever." ¹⁰ He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness — that on all parts ¹¹ ye may be made rich in all singleness, which causeth through us, thanksgiving unto God.

³ But I fear, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ. ⁴ For if he that cometh to you preach another Jesus than him whom we preached, or if ye receive another spirit than that which ye have received, either another gospel than that ye have received; ye might right well have been content.

¹³ For these false apostles are deceitful workers, and fashion themselves like unto the apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ And no marvel, for Satan himself is changed into the fashion of an angel of light. ¹⁵ Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers fashion themselves as though they were the ministers of righteousness: whose end shall be according to their deeds.

⁸ Nevertheless, though we ourselves, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, hold him as accursed. ⁹ As I said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other thing unto you, than that ye have received, hold him accursed.

³ Also Titus which was with me, though he were a Greek, yet was not compelled to be circumcised; ⁴ and that because of incomers, being false brethren, which came in among others to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.

⁴ and that because of incomers, being false brethren, which came in among others to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage. ⁵ To whom we gave no room — no, not for the space of a hour — as concerning to be brought into subjection: and that because that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. ⁶ Of them which seemed to be great — what they were in time passed it maketh no matter to me: God looketh on no man's person — nevertheless they seemed great, added nothing to me:

¹¹ And when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him in the face, for he was worthy to be blamed.

¹⁴ But when I saw that they went not the right way after the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter, before all men, "If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the gentiles, and not as do the Jews: why causest thou the gentiles to live as do the Jews?"

¹ O foolish Galatians: who hath bewitched you, that ye should not believe the truth, to whom Jesus Christ was described before the eyes, and among you crucified? ² This only would I learn of you: Received ye the spirit by the deeds of the law? Or else by preaching of the faith? ³ Are ye so unwise, that after ye have begun in the spirit, ye would now end in the flesh? ⁴ So many things there ye have suffered in vain, if that be in vain.

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather rebuke them.

² but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated at Philippi — as ye well know — then were we bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God, with much striving.

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.

⁶ Godliness is great riches, if a man be content with that he hath.

⁹ They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.

⁹ They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction. ¹⁰ For covetousness is the root of all evil, which while some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled themselves with many sorrows.

¹⁷ Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not exceeding wise, and that they trust not in the uncertain riches, but in the living God, which giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy them,

¹⁵ And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

³ For the time will come, when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but after their own lusts shall they whose ears itch get them a heap of teachers, ⁴ and shall turn their ears from the truth, and shall be given unto fables:

¹ Let us fear, therefore, lest any of us forsaking the promise of entering into his rest, should seem to come behind.

³⁷ were stoned, were hewn asunder, were tempted, were slain with swords, walked up and down in sheep skins, in goat skins, in need, tribulation, and vexation, ³⁸ which the world was not worthy of: They wandered in wilderness, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

¹⁶ To do good, and to distribute, forget not: for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

⁵ If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men indifferently and casteth no man in the teeth; and it shall be given him.

¹³ If any man be wise and endued with learning among you, let him show the works of his good conversation in meekness that is coupled with wisdom. ¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom descendeth not from above: but is earthy, and natural, and devilish. ¹⁶ For where envying and strife is, there is unstableness, and all manner of evil works: ¹⁷ but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation. ¹⁸ Yea, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that maintain peace.

¹⁷ And if so be that ye call on the father, which without respect of person judgeth according to every man's works, see that ye pass the time of your pilgrimage in fear:

³ For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the gentiles; walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry. ⁴ And it seemeth to them a strange thing that ye run not also with them unto the same excess of riot, and therefore speak they evil of you,

⁸ Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

¹ There were false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you: which privily shall bring in damnable sects, even denying the Lord that hath bought them, and bring upon themselves swift damnation. ² And many shall follow their damnable ways, by which the way of truth shall be evil spoken of; ³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

³ and through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you, whose judgment is not far off, and their damnation sleepeth not.

¹⁸ For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors. ¹⁹ They promise them liberty, and are themselves the bondservants of corruption. For of whomsoever a man is overcome, unto the same is he in bondage. ²⁰ For if they, after they have escaped from the filthiness of the world through the knowledge of the Lord, and of the saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet tangled again therein and overcome: then is the latter end worse with them than the beginning.

¹⁵ And suppose that the long suffering of the Lord is salvation, even as our dearly beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given unto him, wrote to you, ¹⁶ yea, almost in every epistle, speaking of such things: among which are many things hard to be understood: which they that are unlearned and unstable pervert, as they do other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and truth is not in us. ⁹ If we knowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

²⁰ But ye have an ointment of the holy ghost, and ye know all things.

²⁷ And the anointing which ye have received of him dwelleth in you. And ye need not that any man teach you: but as the anointing teacheth you all things, and is true, and is no lie: and as it taught you, even so bide therein.

⁵ They be of the world, and therefore speak they of the world, and the world attendeth unto them.

³ Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, to exhort you, that ye should continually labour in the faith, which was once given unto the saints.

¹⁰ Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast of you into prison, to tempt you, and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto the death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

¹³ I know thy works and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is, and thou keepest my name and hast not denied my faith. And in my days Antipas was a faithful witness of mine, which was slain among you where Satan dwelleth. ¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast, there, they that maintain the doctrine of Balaam, which taught in Balak to put occasion of sin before the children of Israel, that they should eat of meat dedicated unto idols, and to commit fornication.

³ Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you shalt not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.