Psalms 106 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah! O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever. ² Who can express the noble acts of the LORD, or show forth all his praise? ³ Blessed are they that always keep judgment, and do righteousness. ⁴ Remember me, O LORD, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation, ⁵ that we might see the pleasure of thy chosen, and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance. ⁶ We have sinned with our fathers; we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly. ⁷ Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance, but were disobedient at the sea, even at the reed sea. ⁸ Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known. ⁹ He rebuked the reed sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness. ¹⁰ And he saved them from the adversary's hand, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them; there was not one of them left. ¹² Then believed they in his word, and sang praise unto him. ¹³ But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel. ¹⁴ A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert. ¹⁵ And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul. ¹⁶ They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. ¹⁷ So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ The fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the ungodly. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay. ²¹ They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt, ²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea. ²³ So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them. ²⁴ Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word, ²⁵ but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. ²⁶ Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness, ²⁷ to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead. ²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them. ³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice; and so the plague ceased. ³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all posterities for evermore. ³² They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes, ³³ because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. ³⁴ Neither destroyed they the Heathen, as the LORD commanded them, ³⁵ but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works - ³⁶ insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay. ³⁷ Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils, ³⁸ and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood. ³⁹ Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. ⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance; ⁴¹ and gave them over into the hand of the Heathen; and they that hated them, were lords over them. ⁴² Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection. ⁴³ Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. ⁴⁴ Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint. ⁴⁵ He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies; ⁴⁶ yea, he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them. ⁴⁷ Deliver us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Heathen; that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and world without end. And let all people say, "Amen, Amen." Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

³⁴ Thank the LORD for he is good, and his mercy lasteth ever!

⁴¹ And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and other that were chosen and named by name, to thank the LORD that his mercy lasteth ever.

¹¹ And they sang together, giving praise and thanks unto the LORD; because he is gracious, and because his mercy endureth forever upon Israel. And all the people shouted loud in praising the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.

⁴ O go your way into his gates then with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and speak good of his name. ⁵ For the LORD is gracious, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth from generation to generation.

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

¹ O give thanks unto the LORD, and call upon his name; tell the people what things he hath done.

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹ I give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth forever.

¹ O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth forever.

⁶⁸ Thou art good and friendly; O teach me thy statutes.

¹ Give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious! And his mercy endureth forever.

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

¹⁷ He said unto him, "Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, and that is, God: But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."

²⁰ But the law, in the meantime, entered in that sin should increase. Neverthelater, where abundance of sin was, there was more plenteousness of grace. ²¹ That as sin had reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by the help of Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ In all things give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

⁵ And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, "Stand up praise the LORD your God forever: and let thanks be given unto the name of thy glory, which exceedeth all thanksgiving and praise.

⁹ which doeth things, that are unsearchable, and marvelous without number.

¹⁴ This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

⁵ O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

¹⁷ How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God! O how great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ If I tell them, they are more in number than the sand; when I wake up, I am present with thee.

³ Great is the LORD, and marvelous, worthy to be praised; there is no end to his greatness. ⁴ One generation shall praise thy works unto another, and declare thy power. ⁵ As for me, I will be talking of thy worship, thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous works; ⁶ so that men shall speak of the might of thy marvelous acts, and tell of thy greatness. ⁷ The memorial of thy abundant kindness shall be showed; and men shall sing of thy righteousness. ⁸ The LORD is gracious and merciful, long-suffering and of great goodness. ⁹ The LORD is loving unto every man; and his mercy is over all his works. ¹⁰ All thy works praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints give thanks unto thee. ¹¹ They show the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power, ¹² that thy power, thy glory and mightiness of thy kingdom, might be known unto men.

³³ O the deepness of the abundant wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out.

¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward, which believe according to the working of that his mighty power,

¹⁸ might be able to comprehend with all saints, what is that breadth and length, depth and height:

¹⁹ 'Thou shalt not steal.

¹ Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his laws and his commandments always.

¹ O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful. ² But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law will he exercise himself, day and night. ³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season. His leaf, also, shall not wither; and, look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.

² Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

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.

¹ {Aleph} Blessed are those that be undefiled in the way, and walk in the law of the LORD. ² Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with their whole heart; ³ which walk in his ways, and do no wickedness.

²⁰ My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath always unto thy judgments.

⁴⁴ So shall I always keep thy law; yea, for ever and ever.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and am steadfastly purposed, to keep thy righteous judgments.

¹¹² I apply my heart to fulfill thy statutes always, even unto the end.

¹ Thus sayeth the LORD: Keep equity, and do right, for my saving health shall come shortly, and my righteousness shall be opened. ² Blessed is the man that doth this, and the man's child which keepeth the same. He that taketh heed, that he unhallow not the Sabbath; that is, he that keepeth himself that he do no evil.

⁵ Thou helpest him that doth right with cheerfulness, and them that think upon thy ways. But lo, thou art angry: for we offend, and have been ever in sin, and there is not one whole.

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.

²¹ And yet the wicked, if he turn from all his sins which he did, and keep all mine ordinances, and do justly and righteously; he shall live and not die. ²² None of the sins that he hath done shall be reckoned unto him: In the righteousness that he hath done, he shall live.

³⁵ For whosoever doeth the will of God, he is my brother, my sister and mother."

⁷⁴ That we, delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear: ⁷⁵ all the days of our life, in such holiness and righteousness that are accept before him.

⁴⁷ Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doth the same, I will show you to whom he is like. ⁴⁸ He is like a man which built a house: and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock. When the waters arose, the flood beat upon that house, and could not move it. For it was grounded upon a rock. ⁴⁹ But he that heareth and doth not, is like a man, that without foundation built a house upon the earth, against which, the flood did beat: and it fell by and by. And the fall of that house was great."

²⁸ But he said, "Yea, happy are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."

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

¹⁷ If ye understand these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

²¹ He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me: and he shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him." ²² Judas said unto him — not Judas Iscariot - "Lord what is the cause that thou wilt show thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, and said unto him, "If a man love me and will keep my sayings, my father also will love him, and we will come unto him, and will dwell with him.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

¹⁶ And therefore study I to have a clear conscience toward God, and toward man also.

⁷ that is to say: praise, honour, and immortality, to them which continue in good doing, and seek eternal life.

⁹ Let us not be weary of well doing. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness.

²⁵ but whoso looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein — if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work — the same shall be happy in his deed.

¹⁵ therefore are they in the presence of the seat of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth in the seat will dwell among them.

¹⁴ Blessed are they that do his commandments, that their power may be in the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

¹⁹ Think upon me my God unto the best, according to all that I have done for this people.

¹⁴ Think upon me, O my God, herein, and wipe not out my mercy, that I have showed on the house of my God, and on the officers thereof!

²² And I said unto the Levites which were clean, that they should come and keep the gates, to hallow the Sabbath day. Think upon me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to thy great mercy!

³¹ and to offer the wood at times appointed, and the firstfruits. Think thou upon me, O my God, for the best!

⁷ O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.

¹³² O look thou upon me, and be merciful, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people. ⁶⁹ And hath raised up a horn of salvation unto us, in the house of his servant David.

⁴² And he said unto Jesus, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom."

¹⁴ Simeon told how God at the beginning did visit the gentiles, and received of them people unto his name.

⁶ For thou art a holy nation unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself of all nations that are upon the earth.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season. His leaf, also, shall not wither; and, look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.

⁷ Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Zion? When the LORD turneth the captivity of his people, then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

¹¹ O let the mount Zion rejoice, and the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

⁴³ Thus he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness,

¹⁵ The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous, for the righthand of the LORD bringeth mighty things to pass.

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

¹⁰ And the redeemed of the LORD shall convert, and come to Zion with thanksgiving. Everlasting joy shall they have, pleasure and gladness shall be among them. And as for all sorrow and heaviness, it shall vanish away.

²⁵ And the whole seed of Israel shall be justified, and make their boast in the LORD.

¹⁰ Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her. Be joyful with her, all ye that mourned for her.

²³ Children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God. For he hath given you a teacher of righteousness, and will make descend unto you the first rain and the later, as at the beginning.

¹⁴ Give thanks, O daughter Zion! Be joyful, O Israel! Rejoice and be glad from thy whole heart, O daughter Jerusalem!

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

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name he should give it you.

²² And ye now are in sorrow: but I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice, and your joy shall no man take from you.

¹⁵ The Lord said unto him, "Go thy ways: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the gentiles, and kings and the children of Israel:

⁴ according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.

¹⁸ and lighten the eyes of your minds, that ye might know what thing that hope is, whereunto he hath called you, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is upon the saints,

³ For we are circumcision which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, for because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctifying of the spirit; And through believing the truth:

⁵ Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him?

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

¹⁴ These shall fight with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them: For he is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings: and they that are on his side, are called, and chosen, and faithful."

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.

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

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,'

⁶ and said, "My God, I am ashamed, and dare not lift up mine eyes unto thee my God: for our wickednesses are grown over our head, and our trespasses are waxen great unto the heaven. ⁷ Since the time of our fathers have we been in great trespass unto this day, and because of our wickedness have we and our kings been delivered into the hand of the kings of the nations, in to the sword, in to captivity, in to spoil, and in to confusion of face, as it is come to pass this day.

⁷ We have been corrupt unto thee, in that we have not kept the commandments, statutes, and laws which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

¹⁶ But our fathers were proud, and hard necked, so that they followed not thy commandments,

³² Now our God, thou great God, mighty and terrible, thou that keepest covenant and mercy, regard not a little all the travail that hath happened unto us, and our kings, princes, priests, prophets, fathers and all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. ³³ Thou art righteous in all that thou hast brought upon us: for thou hast done right. ³⁴ As for us: we have been ungodly, and our kings, princes, priests, and fathers have not done after thy law, nor regarded thy commandments, and thy earnest exhortations wherewith thou hast exhorted them,

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

²⁵ So do we also sleep in our confusion, and shame covereth us: for we and our fathers from our youth up unto this day have sinned against the LORD our God, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God."

⁵ We have sinned, we have offended, we have been disobedient and gone back: yea, we have departed from all thy precepts and judgments. ⁶ We would never follow thy servants the Prophets, that spake in thy name to our kings and princes, to our forefathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ O LORD righteousness belongeth unto thee; unto us pertaineth nothing but open shame: as it is come to pass this day unto every man of Judah, and to them that dwell at Jerusalem. Yea, unto all Israel, whether they be far or nigh, throughout all lands wherein thou hast strawed them, because of the offenses that they had done against thee. ⁸ Yea O LORD: Unto us, to our kings and princes, to our forefathers, even to us all that have offended thee, belongeth open shame.

³² Fulfill ye likewise the measure of your fathers:

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

¹¹ Then said they unto Moses, "Were there no graves for us in Egypt, but thou must bring us away for to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou served us thus, for to carry us out of Egypt? ¹² Did not we tell thee this in Egypt saying, 'Let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians?' For it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness."

¹⁵ And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God delivered thee thence: wherefore I command thee this thing today.

⁴ And yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear unto this day.

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

⁷ But as for me, I will come into thy house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

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.

¹¹ They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them.

⁴² They thought not of his hand, and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy;

⁵ Remember the marvelous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth.

⁴⁵ He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies;

²² "O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?

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

⁷ I will declare the goodness of the LORD, yea and the praise of the LORD, for all that he hath given us; for the great good that he hath done for Israel, which he hath given them of his own favour, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

³² But though he do cast off, yet according to the multitude of his mercies, he receiveth to grace again.

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."

¹⁷ And when Jesus knew that, he said unto them, "Why take ye thought because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your hearts yet blinded? ¹⁸ Have ye eyes and see not? And have ye ears and hear not? Do ye not remember? ¹⁹ When I brake five loaves among five thousand men: How many baskets full of broken meat took ye up?" They said unto him, "Twelve." ²⁰ "When I brake seven among four thousand how many baskets of the leavings of broken meat took ye up?" They said, "Seven." ²¹ And he said unto them, "How is it that ye understand not?"

¹¹ Wherefore, remember that ye, being in time past gentiles in the flesh, and were called "uncircumcision" to them which are called "circumcision" in the flesh — which circumcision is made by hands -

¹⁰ and in all deceivableness of unrighteousness, among them that perish: because they received not the love of the truth, that they might have been saved. ¹¹ And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe lies: ¹² that all they might be damned which believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

¹⁶ Yet in very deed for this cause have I stirred thee up, for to show my power in thee, and to declare my name throughout all the world.

⁶ Thine hand, LORD, is glorious in power, thine hand, LORD, hath all to dashed the enemy.

¹³ And Moses said unto the LORD, "Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou broughtest this people with thy might from among them. ¹⁴ And it will be told to the inhabiters of this land also, for they have heard likewise, that thou the LORD art among this people, and that thou art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ If thou shalt kill all this people as they were but one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee, will speak, saying, ¹⁶ 'Because the LORD was not able to bring in this people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore he slew them in the wilderness.'

²⁶ I have determined to scatter them throughout the world, and to make away the remembrance of them from among men, ²⁷ were it not that I feared the railing of their enemies — lest their adversaries would be proud and say: Our high hand hath done all these works, and not the LORD.

⁹ Moreover, the Canaanites, and all the inhabiters of the land shall hear of it, and shall come about us and destroy the name of us out of the world. And then what wilt thou do unto thy mighty name?"

⁶ He showeth his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.

¹¹ Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake; and for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

⁷ "Doubtless our own wickedness reward us: But LORD do thou according to thy name, though our transgressions and sins be many.

²¹ Be not displeased, O LORD, for thy name's sake, forget not thy loving-kindness: Remember the throne of thine honour, break not the covenant that thou hast made with us.

⁹ But I would not do it, for my name's sake: that it should not be unhallowed before the Heathen, among whom they dwelt, and among whom I showed myself unto them, that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Yet I would not do it, for my name's sake: lest it should be dishonored before the Heathen, from the which I had carried them away.

²² Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand for my name's sake, lest it should be unhallowed among the Heathen, before whom I had brought them forth.

⁴⁴ And ye shall know that I am the LORD: when I entreat you after my name, not after your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt works: O ye house of Israel, sayeth the LORD.'"

¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his intercession. O let thy face shine over thy Sanctuary, that lieth waste. ¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hearken; at the least for thine own sake, open thine eyes. Behold how we be desolated: yea, and the city also, which is called after thy name. For we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousnesses, no, but only in thy great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O forgive Lord; O Lord consider, tarry not over long: but for thine own sake do it. O my God: for thy city and thy people is called after thy name."

¹⁷ For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose have I stirred thee up, to show my power on thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the world."

²¹ When now Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, the LORD carried away the sea with a strong east wind that blew all night, and made the sea dry land and the water divided itself. ²² And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea upon the dry ground. And the water was a wall unto them, both on their right hand and on their left hand.

²⁷ Then stretched forth Moses his hand over the sea, and it came again to his course early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it. Thus the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, ²⁸ and the water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen: so that of all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, there remained not one. ²⁹ But the children of Israel went upon dry land in the midst of the sea, and the water was a wall unto them: both on the right hand of them and also on the left.

¹¹ And the reed sea didst thou divide in sunder before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea dry-shoed: and their persecutors threwest thou into the deep as a stone, in the mighty waters;

¹⁵ The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O LORD, at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasures. {TYNDALE: And the bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by the reason of the rebuking of the LORD, and through the blasting of the breath of his nostrils.}

⁶ He turned the sea into dry land, so that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof.

¹⁹ Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters; and thy footsteps are not known. ²⁰ Thou leddest thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

¹³ He divided the sea, and let them go through it; and made the waters to stand in a heap.

⁵² But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, and carried them in the wilderness like a flock. ⁵³ He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea.

³ The sea saw that, and fled, Jordan turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like young sheep. ⁵ What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? And thou Jordan, that thou turnest back? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? And ye little hills, like young sheep? ⁷ Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

¹³ Which divided the reed sea into parts! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁴ And made Israel to go through the midst of it! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁵ But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew them in the reed sea! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁶ Who led his people through the wilderness! For his mercy endureth forever.

¹⁴ but they both together shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West: and spoil them together that dwell toward the East. The Edomites and the Moabites shall let their hands fall, and the Ammonites shall be obedient unto them. ¹⁵ The LORD also shall cleave the tongues of the Egyptian's sea, and with a mighty wind shall he lift up his hand over the Nile, and shall smite his seven streams and make men go over dry shod. ¹⁶ And thus shall he make a way for his people, that remaineth from the Assyrians, like as it happened to the Israelites, what time they departed out of the land of Egypt.

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

¹⁰ Art not thou he, that hast wounded that proud Egypt, and hewn the dragon in pieces? Art not thou even he, which hast dried up the deep of the sea, which hast made plain the sea ground, that the delivered might go through?

¹¹ Yet remembered he the old time of Moses and his people: How he brought them from the water of the sea, as a shepherd doth with his sheep; how he had given his holy spirit among them; ¹² how he had led Moses by the righthand with his glorious arm; how he had divided the water before them, whereby he gat himself an everlasting name; ¹³ how he led them in the deep, as a horse is led in the plain, that they should not stumble. ¹⁴ The spirit of the LORD led them as a tame beast goeth in the field. Thus, O God, hast thou led thy people, to make thyself a glorious name withal.

⁴ When he reproveth the sea, he drieth it up, and turneth all the floods to dry land. Bashan is desolate, Carmel and the pleasure of Lebanon wasteth away.

²⁶ And he said unto them, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there followed a great calm.

³⁰ Thus the LORD delivered Israel the selfsame day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seaside.

⁹ The enemy said, 'I will follow and overtake them, and will divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my sword, and mine hand shall destroy them.' ¹⁰ Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

¹³ And thou carriedest with thy mercy this people which thou deliveredest, and broughtest them with thy strength unto thy holy habitation!

⁴ and what he did unto the host of the Egyptians, unto their horses and chariots, how he brought the water of the reed sea upon them as they chased you, and how the LORD hath brought them to nought unto this day;

²² "Did I desire you to come hither? Or to give me any of your substance? ²³ To deliver me from the enemy's hand, or to save me from the power of the mighty?

² Let them give thanks whom the LORD hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy,

²⁴ And hath delivered us from our enemies! For his mercy endureth forever.

⁴ Because I brought thee from the land of Egypt, and delivered thee out of the house of bondage? Because I made Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to lead thee?

¹³ And Moses said unto the people, "Fear ye not, but stand still and behold how the LORD shall save you this day: For as ye see the Egyptians this day, shall ye see them no more forever till the world's end.

²⁷ Then stretched forth Moses his hand over the sea, and it came again to his course early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it. Thus the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, ²⁸ and the water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen: so that of all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, there remained not one.

⁵ the deep waters have covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.

¹⁰ Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

¹⁹ For Pharaoh went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Israel went on dry land through the midst of the sea.

⁵³ He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea.

³¹ And when Israel saw that mighty hand which the LORD had showed upon the Egyptians, they feared the LORD: and believed both the LORD and also his servant Moses.

¹³ They on the stones, are they which, when they hear, receive the word with joy. But these have no roots, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation go away.

³⁰ As he spake these words, many believed on him. ³¹ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, "If ye continue in my words, then are ye my very disciples:

¹⁷ Bring them in and plant them in the mountains of thine inheritance, the place, LORD, which thou hast made for to dwell in, the sanctuary, LORD, which thy hands have prepared.

²⁴ Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"

² And the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

² And the people chode with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said unto them, "Why chide ye with me, and wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?"

⁷ And he called the name of the place: Massah-and-Meribah: because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

¹¹ because they were not obedient to the commandments of God, but lightly regarded the counsel of the most highest — he also brought down their hearts through heaviness.

²⁵ but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught.

³⁰ but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction.

¹⁷ And thus sayeth the LORD God thine avenger, the holy one of Israel: I am the LORD thy God, which teach thee profitable things, and lead thee the way, that thou shouldest go. ¹⁸ If thou wilt now regard my commandment, thy wealthiness shall be as the water stream: and thy righteousness as the waves flowing in the sea.

⁴ And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And the children of Israel also went to, and wept, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat?

³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, yer it was chewed up, the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon the people, and the LORD slew of the people an exceeding mighty slaughter. ³⁴ And they called the name of the place, the graves of lust: because they buried the people that lusted there.

²² For of all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice,

²² Also at Taberah and at Massah and at the sepulchres of lust ye angered the LORD.

¹⁸ They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust. ¹⁹ For they spake against God, and said, "Yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he? ²⁰ Lo, he smote the stony rock, that the watery streams gushed out, and the streams flowed withal: but how can he give bread and provide flesh for his people?"

³⁰ And they were not disappointed of their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

⁴⁰ O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert? ⁴¹ They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel.

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, ⁹ when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.

⁶ These are examples to us that we should not lust after evil things, as they lusted.

⁹ Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and were destroyed of serpents.

⁸ harden not your hearts, after the rebellion in the day of temptation in the wilderness, ⁹ where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long. ¹⁰ Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They ever err in their hearts: they verily have not known my ways,'

³¹ And there went forth a wind from the LORD and brought quails from the sea and let them fall about the host, even a day's journey round about on every side of the host, and two cubits high upon the earth. ³² And the people stood up all that night and on the morrow, and gathered quails. And he that gathered the least, gathered ten homers full. And they killed them round about the host.

²⁹ So they ate, and were filled, for he gave them their own desire. ³⁰ And they were not disappointed of their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, ³¹ the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

¹⁶ Therefore shall the LORD of Hosts send him poverty in his riches, and burn up his power, as it were with a fire.

¹⁶ We heard songs sung to the praise of the righteous, from all the ends of the world. And I said, "O mine unfruitfulness! O my poverty! Woe is me! The transgressors have offended; the transgressors have grievously offended!"

³⁶ And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave thereon, as signets are graven, 'The holiness of the LORD,'

⁶ They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the LORD and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy. ⁷ "'They shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy unto his God. ⁸ Sanctify him therefore, for he offereth up the bread of God: he shall therefore be holy unto thee, for I the LORD which sanctify you, am holy.

¹⁰ He that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured and whose hand was filled to put on the vestments, shall not uncover his head nor rent his clothes, ¹¹ neither shall go to any dead body nor make himself unclean: no not on his father or mother, ¹² neither shall go out of the sanctuary, that he pollute not the holy place of his God, for the crown of the anointing oil of God, is upon him. I am the LORD.

¹ And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; and Dathan and Abiram, the son of Eliab; and On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben, ² stood up before Moses, with other of the children of Israel: two hundred and fifty, heads of the congregation, and councilors, and men of fame. ³ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "Ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why therefore heave ye yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?" ⁴ When Moses heard it, he fell upon his face ⁵ and spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will show who is his and who is holy, and will take them unto him, and whomsoever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to him. ⁶ This do: take firepans, thou Korah and all thy company, ⁷ and do fire therein and put cense thereto before the LORD tomorrow: And then whomsoever the LORD doeth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do, ye children of Levi." ⁸ And Moses said unto Korah, "Hear, ye children of Levi: ⁹ Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel to bring you to him, to do the service of the dwelling place of the LORD, and to stand before the people to minister unto them? ¹⁰ He hath taken thee to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and ye seek the office of the priest also. ¹¹ For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: for what is Aaron, that ye should murmur against him?" ¹² And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they answered, "We will not come. ¹³ Seemeth it a small thing unto thee that thou hast brought us out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness; but that thou shouldest reign over us also? ¹⁴ Moreover, thou hast brought us unto no land that floweth with milk and honey, neither hast given us possessions of fields or of vines. Either wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men? We will not come." ¹⁵ And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the LORD, "Turn not unto their offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass from them, neither have vexed any of them." ¹⁶ Then Moses said unto Korah, "Be thou and all thy company before the LORD: both thou, they, and Aaron tomorrow. ¹⁷ And take every man his censer and put cense in them, and come before the LORD every man with his censer: two hundred and fifty censers, and Aaron with his censer." ¹⁸ And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and laid cense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and Moses and Aaron also. ¹⁹ And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation. ²⁰ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, ²¹ "Separate yourselves from this congregation, that I may consume them at once." ²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, "O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh; one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?" ²³ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ "Speak unto the congregation, and say, 'Get you away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.'" ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. ²⁶ And he spake unto the congregation, saying, "Depart from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs: lest ye perish in all their sins." ²⁷ And they gat them from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents with their wives, their sons and their children. ²⁸ And Moses said, "Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind: ²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent me. ³⁰ But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD." ³¹ And as soon as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods. ³³ And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel that were about them, fled at the cry of them. For they said, "The earth might haply swallow us also." ³⁵ And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cense. ³⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ "Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire here and there, ³⁸ for the censers of these sinners are hallowed in their deaths: and let them be beaten into thin plates and fastened upon the altar. For they offered them before the LORD, and therefore they are holy and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel." ³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered, and beat them and fastened them upon the altar, ⁴⁰ to be a remembrance unto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer cense before the LORD, that he be not made like unto Korah and his company: as the LORD said unto him by the hand of Moses. ⁴¹ And on the morrow all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, "Ye have killed the people of the LORD." ⁴² And when the multitude was gathered against Moses and Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of witness; And behold, the cloud had covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared. ⁴³ And Moses and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witness. ⁴⁴ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵ "Get you from this congregation, that I may consume them quickly." And they fell upon their faces. ⁴⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun." ⁴⁷ And Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on cense, and made an atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ And he stood between the dead, and them that were alive, and the plague ceased. ⁴⁹ And the number of them that died in the plague, were fourteen thousand and seven hundred: beside them that died about the business of Korah. ⁵⁰ And Aaron went again unto Moses, unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the plague ceased.

²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent me. ³⁰ But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD." ³¹ And as soon as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods. ³³ And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

¹⁰ And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and Korah also, when the multitude died, what time the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign:

⁶ and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with their households and their tents and all their substance that was in their possession, in the midst of Israel.

³⁵ And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cense. ³⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ "Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire here and there, ³⁸ for the censers of these sinners are hallowed in their deaths: and let them be beaten into thin plates and fastened upon the altar. For they offered them before the LORD, and therefore they are holy and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel." ³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered, and beat them and fastened them upon the altar, ⁴⁰ to be a remembrance unto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer cense before the LORD, that he be not made like unto Korah and his company: as the LORD said unto him by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun."

²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

⁴ And he received them of their hands and fashioned it with a graver and made it a calf of molten metal. And they said, "This is thy God, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt." ⁵ And when Aaron saw that, he made an altar before it, and made a proclamation saying, "Tomorrow shall be holy day unto the LORD." ⁶ And they rose up in the morning and offered burnt offerings, and brought offerings of atonement also. And then they sat them down to eat and drink, and rose up again to play. ⁷ Then the LORD said unto Moses, "Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, ⁸ have marred all: they are turned at once out of the way which I commanded them, and have made them a calf of molten metal, and have worshipped it and have offered thereto and have said, 'This is thy God thou Israel, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.'"

³⁵ And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf; which Aaron made.

⁸ Also in Horeb ye angered the LORD so that the LORD was wroth with you, even to have destroyed you,

¹² and said unto me, 'Up, and get thee down quickly from hence, for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have marred themselves. They are turned at once out of the way, which I commanded them, and have made them a god of metal.' ¹³ Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, 'I see this people how that it is a stiff-necked people; ¹⁴ let me alone that I may destroy them and put out the name of them from under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation both greater and more than they.' ¹⁵ And I turned away and came down from the hill — and the hill burnt with fire — and had the two tables of the covenant in my hands. ¹⁶ And when I looked and saw that ye had sinned against the LORD your God and had made you a calf of metal and had turned at once out of the way which the LORD had commanded you;

²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made and burnt him with fire and stamped him and ground him a-good, even unto small dust. And I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

¹⁸ And though they made a molten calf, and said 'This is thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt,' and did great blasphemies,

⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the image, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

⁷ Neither be ye worshippers of images as were some of them according as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up again to play."

⁴ "Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth. ⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength, and through thy favour shalt thou lift up our horns.

¹⁸ "To whom then will ye liken God? Or what similitude will ye set up unto him? ¹⁹ Shall the carver make him a carved image? And shall the goldsmith cover him with gold, or cast him into a form of silver plates? ²⁰ Moreover, shall the image maker, that the poor man which is disposed may have something to set up also, seek out and choose a tree, that is not rotten, and carve thereout an image, that moveth not? ²¹ Know ye not this? Heard ye never of it? Hath it not been preached unto you since the beginning? Have ye not been informed of this since the foundation of the earth was laid? ²² That he sitteth upon the Circle of the world, and that all the inhabiters of the world are, in comparison of him, but as grasshoppers; That he spreadeth out the heavens as a covering, he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in; ²³ That he bringeth princes to nothing, and the judges of the earth to dust; ²⁴ so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away, like the straw in a whirlwind. ²⁵ 'To whom now will ye liken me, and whom shall I be like?' sayeth the holy one.

¹¹ whether the Gentiles themselves deal so falsely and untruly with their gods - which yet are no gods indeed! But my people hath given over their high honour, for a thing that may not help them.

²² When they counted themselves wise, they became fools ²³ and turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents.

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

²² And the LORD showed signs and wonders both great and evil upon Egypt, Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes;

¹⁸ Fear them not, but remember what the LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh and unto all Egypt, ¹⁹ and the great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs and wonders and mighty hand and stretched-out arm wherewith the LORD thy God brought thee out: even so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the nations of which thou art afraid.

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

¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not. ¹⁸ Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgot God that made thee.

¹⁰ and showed tokens and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they were presumptuous and cruel against them; and so madest thou thee a name as it is this day. ¹¹ And the reed sea didst thou divide in sunder before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea dry-shoed: and their persecutors threwest thou into the deep as a stone, in the mighty waters;

¹³ Thou dividest the sea through thy power, thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. ¹⁴ Thou smitest the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and givest him to be meat for the people in the wilderness.

¹¹ They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them. ¹² Marvelous things did he in the sight of our forefathers; in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan.

⁴² They thought not of his hand, and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy; ⁴³ how he had wrought his miracles in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: ⁴⁴ How he turned their waters into blood, so that they might not drink of the rivers; ⁴⁵ How he sent lice among them, to eat them up, and frogs to destroy them; ⁴⁶ How he gave their fruits unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the grasshopper; ⁴⁷ How he beat down their vineyards with hail stones, and their mulberry trees with the frost; ⁴⁸ How he smote their cattle also with hail stones, and their flocks with hot thunderbolts; ⁴⁹ How he sent upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble, and sent evil angels among them; ⁵⁰ When he made a way to his fearful indignation, and spared not their souls from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; ⁵¹ When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham.

¹³ But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel.

⁹ He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O thou land of Egypt, upon Pharaoh and all his servants.

² Behold, God is my salvation: I will be bold therefore and not fear. For the LORD God is my strength and my praise whereof I sing: and is become my saviour.

²¹ Let men draw nigh, let them come hither, and ask counsel one at another, and show forth: "What is he, that told this before?" Or, "Who spake of it, ever since the beginning?" Have not I, the LORD, done it: without whom there is none other God? The true God and Saviour, and there is else none but I.

⁸ For he said, "These no doubt will be my people, and no shrinking children," and so he was their Saviour.

³² Doth a maiden forget her raiment, or a bride her stomacher? But as for my people, they have forgotten me for days innumerable.

⁷ Nevertheless I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them even through the LORD their God. But I will not deliver them through any bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen."

⁴⁷ And my spirit rejoiceth in God my saviour:

³ but hath opened his word at the time appointed, through preaching; which preaching is committed unto me, by the commandment of God our saviour.

¹⁰ neither be pickers, but that they show all good faithfulness, that they may do worship to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

⁴ But after that the kindness and love of our saviour God to man ward appeared, ⁵ not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost, ⁶ which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our saviour;

²⁵ and smote off their chariot wheels and cast them down to the ground. Then said the Egyptians, "Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD fighteth for them against us." ²⁶ Then said the LORD unto Moses, "Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the water may come again upon the Egyptians; upon their chariots and horsemen."

⁵¹ When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham.

²³ Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham.

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

¹⁰ and now therefore suffer me that my wrath may wax hot upon them, and that I may consume them: and then will I make of thee a mighty people." ¹¹ Then Moses besought the LORD his God and said, "O LORD, why should thy wrath wax hot upon thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ¹² Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, 'For a mischief did he bring them out: even for to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth.' Turn from thy fierce wrath, and have compassion over the wickedness of thy people. ¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thine own self and saidest unto them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land which I have said, I will give unto your seed: and they shall inherit it forever.'" ¹⁴ And the LORD refrained himself from that evil, which he said he would do unto his people.

³² Yet forgive them their sin, I pray thee: If not, wipe me out of thy book which thou hast written."

⁵ and spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will show who is his and who is holy, and will take them unto him, and whomsoever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to him.

¹³ Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, 'I see this people how that it is a stiff-necked people; ¹⁴ let me alone that I may destroy them and put out the name of them from under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation both greater and more than they.'

¹⁹ For I was afraid of the wrath and fierceness wherewith the LORD was angry with you, even for to have destroyed you; But the LORD heard my petition at that time also.

²⁵ And I fell before the LORD, forty days and forty nights which I lay there, for the LORD was minded to have destroyed you.

¹⁰ And I tarried in the mount, even as at the first time forty days and forty nights, and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, so that the LORD would not destroy thee.

²⁶ Then sent he Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

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.

⁵ For they stand not in the gaps, neither made they a hedge for the house of Israel, that men might abide the peril in the day of the LORD.

⁸ But they rebelled against me, and would not follow me: to cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and to forsake the Idols of Egypt. Then I made me to pour my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them: Yea, even in the midst of the land of Egypt.

¹³ And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They would not walk in my commandments; they have cast away my laws, which whoso keepeth should live in them; and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness. ¹⁴ Yet I would not do it, for my name's sake: lest it should be dishonored before the Heathen, from the which I had carried them away.

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

¹⁸ "Behold my child, whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul delighteth: I will put my spirit on him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love his own. Howbeit, because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore hateth you the world.

¹⁶ Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of red rice. And he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. And so Esau regarded not his birthright.

³² And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched, unto the children of Israel, saying, "The land which we have gone through, to search it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabiters thereof, and the people that we saw in it are men of stature.

¹¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "How long shall this people rail upon me, and how long will it be, yer they believe me, for all my signs which I have showed among them?

³¹ And your children, which ye said should be a prey: them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have refused,

³² And yet for all this saying ye did not believe the LORD your God,

⁷ For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of rivers of water, of fountains and of springs that spring out both in valleys and hills: ⁸ a land of wheat and of barley, of vines, fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees with oil and of honey: ⁹ a land wherein thou shalt not eat bread in scarceness, and where thou shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou shalt dig brass.

²³ Yea, and when the LORD sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and conquer the land which I have given you,' ye disobeyed the mouth of the LORD your God, and neither believed him nor hearkened unto his voice.

¹¹ but the land whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, ¹² and a land which the LORD thy God careth for. The eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year unto the latter end of the year.

¹⁹ "'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

⁶ even in the day that I lift up mine hand over them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land that I have provided for them, which floweth with milk and honey, and it is a pleasant land among all others:

⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways: one to his firm place, another about his merchandise:

¹² Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

¹⁸ To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not? ¹⁹ And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

² For unto us was it declared, as well as unto them. But it profited not them that they heard the word, because they which heard it coupled it not with faith.

⁶ Seeing therefore it followeth that some must enter thereinto, and they to whom it was first preached, entered not therein for unbelief's sake.

¹⁴ Seeing, then, that we have a great high priest which is entered into heaven — I mean Jesus the son of God — let us hold our profession.

¹⁶ and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright.

⁵ My mind is therefore to put you in remembrance, forasmuch as ye once know this, how that the Lord — after that he had delivered the people out of Egypt — destroyed them which afterward believed not:

¹ And the multitude cried out, and the people wept throughout that night, ² and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole congregation said unto them, "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, either we would that we had died in this wilderness. ³ Wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword, that both our wives, and also our children should be a prey? Is it not better that we return unto Egypt again?" ⁴ And they said, one to another, "Let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again."

²⁷ "How long shall this evil multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me. ²⁸ Tell them that the LORD sayeth, 'As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears. ²⁹ Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me

²⁶ Notwithstanding, ye would not consent to go up, but were disobedient unto the mouth of the LORD your God, ²⁷ and murmured in your tents and said, 'Because the LORD hateth us, therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites and to destroy us.

⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands.

⁷ Wherefore, as the holy ghost saith, "Today if ye shall hear his voice, ⁸ harden not your hearts, after the rebellion in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

¹⁵ so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked."

²² And Abram answered the king of Sodom, "I lift up my hand unto the LORD God most high, possessor of heaven and earth, ²³ that I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a thread or a shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say 'I have made Abram rich.'

⁸ And I will bring you unto the land over the which I did lift up my hand to give it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and will give it unto you for a possession: even I the LORD.'"

²⁸ Tell them that the LORD sayeth, 'As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears. ²⁹ Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me ³⁰ come in to the land over which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell therein — save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. ³¹ And your children, which ye said should be a prey: them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have refused, ³² and your carcases shall lie in this wilderness. ³³ And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness, ³⁴ after the number of the days in which ye searched out the land forty days, and every day a year: so that they shall bear your unrighteousness forty years, and ye shall feel my vengeance. ³⁵ I, the LORD, have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here ye shall die."

³⁴ And the LORD heard the voice of your words and was wroth and swore saying, ³⁵ 'There shall not one of these men of this froward generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers,

⁴⁰ For I will lift up my hand to heaven, and will say: I live ever. ⁴¹ If I whet the lightning of my sword, and mine hand take in hand to do justice, I will show vengeance on mine enemies and will reward them that hate me. ⁴² I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my sword shall eat flesh of the blood of the slain and of the captive and of the bare head of the enemy.'

¹¹ Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

¹⁵ But I swore unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land, which I gave them: a land that floweth with milk and honey, and is a pleasure of all lands.

¹¹ so that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

¹⁸ To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not?

⁵ And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea, and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, ⁶ and swore by him that liveth forevermore, which created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which therein are; that there should be no longer time:

³³ And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate.

²⁶ I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed. ²⁷ And the LORD shall scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the people whither the LORD shall bring you:

³⁷ And thou shalt go to waste and be made an example and a jestingstock unto all nations whither the LORD shall carry thee.

⁶⁴ And the LORD shall scatter thee among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind.

¹¹ Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.

²³ I lift up mine hand over them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Heathen, and straw them among the nations:

¹ And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, ² which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And the people ate, and worshipped their gods, ³ and Israel coupled himself unto Baal-Peor. Then the LORD was angry with Israel,

⁵ And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, "Go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal- Peor."

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.

³ Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.

¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not.

¹⁷ Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?

⁴ Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. ⁶ They have ears, and hear not; noses have they, but they smell not. ⁷ They have hands, and handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat. ⁸ They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

⁸ They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity: ⁹ namely, wood; silver, which is brought out of Tarshish, and beaten to plates; and gold from Ophir, a work that is made with the hand of the craftsman and the caster, clothed with yellow silk and scarlet: even so is the work of their wise men altogether. ¹⁰ But the LORD is a true God, a living God, and an everlasting king. If he be wroth, the earth shaketh: all the Gentiles may not abide his indignation.

¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.

¹⁹ What say I then? That the image is anything? Or that it which is offered to images is anything? ²⁰ Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.

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.

⁹ And there died in the plague twenty four thousand.

¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him. ¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not. ¹⁸ Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgot God that made thee. ¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters. ²⁰ And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith. ²¹ They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

⁸ Thou heardest them, O LORD our God; thou forgavest them, O God, and punished their own inventions.

³⁹ Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

²⁹ Lo, this only have I found, that God made man just and right, but they seek divers subtleties.

²¹ inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded. ²² When they counted themselves wise, they became fools ²³ and turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents. ²⁴ Wherefore God, likewise, gave them up unto their hearts' lusts, unto uncleanness to defile their own bodies between themselves:

⁸ Neither let us commit fornication as some of them committed fornication, and were destroyed — in one day, twenty three thousand.

⁶ And behold, one of the children of Israel went in against his brethren, and joined himself to a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁷ And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up out of the company and took a weapon in his hand, ⁸ and went after the man of Israel into the whorehouse, and thrust them through: both the man of Israel and also the woman even through the belly of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel.

¹⁴ The name of the Israelite which was smitten with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a lord of an ancient house among the Simeonites. ¹⁵ And the name of the Midianitish woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur and head over the people of an ancient house in Midian.

⁹ Thine hand shall be first upon him to kill him; and then the hands of all the people. ¹⁰ And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die, because he hath gone about to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God which brought thee out of Egypt, the house of bondage. ¹¹ And all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more, and such wickedness as this is, among them.

¹⁵ then thou shalt smite the dwellers of that city with the edge of the sword, and destroy it merciless and all that is therein, and even the very cattle thereof with the edge of the sword. ¹⁶ And gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the streets thereof, and burn with fire: both the city and all the spoil thereof every whit unto the LORD thy God. And it shall be a heap forever and shall not be built again. ¹⁷ And see that there cleave nought of the damned thing in thine hand, that the LORD may turn from his fierce wrath and show thee mercy and have compassion on thee and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers:

¹² And therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They shall turn their backs before their enemies, because they be excommunicate. Neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the excommunicate from among you.

⁴⁰ Then said Elijah unto them, "Lay hands on the Prophets of Baal — let not one of them escape." And when they had taken them, Elijah brought them down unto the brook Kishon, and slew them there. ⁴¹ Then Elijah said unto Ahab, "Get thee up and eat and drink, for there is a sound of much rain."

¹² And he answered them, "Take me and cast me in to the sea, and so shall it let you be in rest: for I know it is for my sake, that this great tempest is come upon you." ¹³ Nevertheless the men assayed with rowing to bring the ship to land: but it would not be, because the sea so wrought and was so troublous against them. ¹⁴ Wherefore they cried unto the LORD and said, "O LORD let us not perish for this man's death, neither lay innocent blood unto our charge: for thou LORD, even as thy pleasure was, so thou hast done." ¹⁵ And then they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea left raging.

⁶ And Abram believed the LORD, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

¹¹ "Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned mine anger away from the children of Israel, because he was jealous for my sake among them; that I had not consumed the children of Israel in my jealousy. ¹² Wherefore, say, 'Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace, ¹³ and he shall have it and his seed after him, even the covenant of the priest's office forever, because he was jealous for his God's sake and made an atonement for the children of Israel.'"

¹³ but deliver him the pledge again by that the sun go down, and let him sleep in his own raiment and bless thee. And it shall be righteousness unto thee, before the LORD thy God.

³ When he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, even as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, called nard, that was pure and costly, and she brake the box and poured it on his head. ⁴ And there were some that were not content in themselves, and said, "What needed this waste of ointment? ⁵ For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and been given unto the poor." And they grudged against her. ⁶ And Jesus said, "Let her be in rest. Why trouble ye her? She hath done a good work on me. ⁷ For ye shall have poor with you always: and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye shall not have always. ⁸ She hath done that she could: she came aforehand to anoint my body to his buryingward. ⁹ Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be rehearsed in remembrance of her."

² Moreover, there was no water for the multitude, wherefore they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. ³ And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD. ⁴ Why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD unto this wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die here? ⁵ Wherefore brought ye us out of Egypt, to bring us into this ungracious place, which is no place of seed nor of figs nor vines nor of pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?" ⁶ And Moses and Aaron went from the congregation unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and fell upon their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared unto them. ⁷ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ⁸ "Take the staff and gather, thou and thy brother Aaron, the congregation together; and say unto the rock, before their eyes, that he give forth his water. And thou shalt bring them water out of the rock and shalt give the company drink, and their beasts also." ⁹ And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him. ¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, "Hear, ye rebellious, must we fetch you water out of this rock?" ¹¹ And Moses lift up his hand with his staff and smote the rock two times, and the water came out abundantly, and the multitude drank and their beasts also. ¹² And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, "Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." ¹³ This is the water of strife, because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified upon them.

²³ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, hard upon the coasts of the land of Edom, saying, ²⁴ "Let Aaron be put unto his people, for he shall not come into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel: because ye disobeyed my mouth at the water of strife.

¹³ And when thou hast seen it, thou shalt be gathered unto thy people also; as Aaron thy brother was gathered unto his people. ¹⁴ For ye were disobedient unto my mouth in the desert of Zin in the strife of the congregation, that ye sanctified me not in the water before their eyes." That is the water of strife in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin.

³⁷ Likewise the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, 'Thou also shalt not go in thither.

²⁶ But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and would not hear me, but said unto me, 'Be content, and speak henceforth no more unto me of this matter;

²¹ Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inheritance.

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

⁷ When thou calledest upon me in trouble, I delivered thee, and heard thee, what time as the storm fell upon thee. I proved thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.

¹ When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said unto Jacob, "Give me children, or else I am but dead."

¹⁶ And they departed from Bethel, and when he was but a field breadth from Ephrata, Rachel began to travail. And in travailing she was in peril. ¹⁷ And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife said unto her, "Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also." ¹⁸ Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, "Hear, ye rebellious, must we fetch you water out of this rock?" ¹¹ And Moses lift up his hand with his staff and smote the rock two times, and the water came out abundantly, and the multitude drank and their beasts also.

¹⁰ But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

² "What is he that hideth his mind with foolish words?

⁴ "Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth. ⁵ Once or twice have I spoken, but I will say no more."

⁷ Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done. ⁸ Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

¹ {To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."

³ Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips.

² For in many things we sin all. If a man sin not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to tame all the body.

⁵² see that ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you, and destroy their imaginations and all their images of metal, and pluck down all their altars built on hills:

⁵⁵ But and if ye will not drive out the inhabiters of the land before you, then those which ye let remain of them, shall be thorns in your eyes and darts in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. ⁵⁶ Moreover it will come to pass, that I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them.'"

² and when the LORD thy God hath set them before thee that thou shouldest smite them: see that thou utterly destroy them and make no covenant with them nor have compassion on them.

¹⁶ Thou shalt bring to nought all nations which the LORD thy God delivereth thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them neither shalt thou serve their gods, for that shall be thy decay.

²³ And the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee and stir up a mighty tempest among them, until they be brought to nought. ²⁴ And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their names from under heaven. There shall no man stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

¹⁶ But in the cities of these nations which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. ¹⁷ But shalt destroy them without redemption, both the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perezites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee,

⁶³ But the Jebusites that were the inhabiters of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not cast out. Wherefore the Jebusites dwell among the children of Judah unto this day.

¹⁰ Notwithstanding, they drave not out the Cananites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Cananites dwelt among the Ephraimites unto this day, and pay tribute.

¹² yet the children of Manasseh could not overcome those cities, but the Cananites began to dwell in the same land. ¹³ Nevertheless, as soon as the children of Israel were waxed strong, they put the Cananites to tribute, but expelled them not. ¹⁴ And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, "Why hast thou given us but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing we be much people, and forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed us so?" ¹⁵ And Joshua answered them, "If ye be much people, then get you up to the wood country, and prepare for yourselves there in the land of the Perezites and of the Rephaim, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for you." ¹⁶ Then the children of Joseph said again, "The hill will not be gotten of us: for all the Cananites that dwell in the low country have chariots of iron, and so have they that inhabit Bethshean, and the towns of the same, and they also that dwell in the valley of Jezreel."

¹² But and if ye shall go back and cleave unto the rest of these nations that remain with you and shall make marriages with them, and shall go to them and they come to you: ¹³ be sure that the LORD your God will not cast out all these nations before you. But they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges for your sides, and pricks in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

¹⁹ And the LORD was with Judah that he conquered the mountains, but they could not drive out the inhabiters of the valleys, because they had chariots of iron.

²¹ And the children of Benjamin did not cast out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

²⁷ Neither did Manasseh expel Bethshean with her towns, neither Taanach with her towns, neither the inhabiters of Dor with her towns, neither the inhabiters of Ibleam with her towns, neither the inhabiters of Megiddo with her towns, and so the Cananites went to and dwelt in the said land. ²⁸ But as soon as Israel was waxed mighty, they put the Cananites to tribute: but expelled them not. ²⁹ In like manner Ephraim expelled not the Cananites that dwelt in Gezer, but the Cananites dwelt still in Gezer among them. ³⁰ Neither did Zebulun expel the inhabiters of Kitron, neither the inhabiters of Nahalol; but the Cananites dwelt among them and became tributaries. ³¹ Neither did Asher cast out the inhabiters of Acco, neither the inhabiters of Sidon, of Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, nor of Rehob, ³² but the Asherites dwelt among the Cananites the inhabiters of the land, and drave them not out. ³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabiters of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabiters of Bethanath, but dwelt amongst the Cananites the inhabiters of the land. Nevertheless the inhabiters of Bethshemesh, and of Bethanath became tributaries unto them. ³⁴ And the Amorites kept the children of Dan in the mountains, and suffered them not the come down to the valleys. ³⁵ And so the Amorites went and dwelled in mount Heres in Aijalon and in Shaalbim. Neverthelater, the hand of Joseph waxed heavy upon them, so that they became tributaries. ³⁶ And the coasts of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, and from the rock upward.

³ Now therefore go and smite the Amalekites, and only destroy ye all that pertaineth unto them, and see thou have no compassion on them. But slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, and ox, sheep, camel and ass.'"

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."

¹⁹ Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said, "Why could not we cast him out?" ²⁰ Jesus said unto them, "Because of your unbelief. For I say verily unto you, if ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye should say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and he should remove: Neither should any thing be impossible for you to do.

² but ye should have made no covenant with the inhabiters of this land, ye should have broken down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Why have ye this done? ³ Wherefore I have likewise determined that I will not cast them out before you: that they may be a fall unto you, and their gods shall be snares unto you."

⁵ And as the children of Israel dwelt among the Cananites, Hittites, Amorites, Perezites, Hivites, and Jebusites, ⁶ they took the daughters of them to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

⁶ But thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they go far beyond the east countries in Sorcerers - who they have as the Philistines had - and in calkers of men's births, whereof they have too many.

⁶ Your rejoicing is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven soureth the whole lump of dough?

³³ Be not deceived: malicious speakings corrupt good manners.

¹⁵ lest, if thou make any covenant with the inhabiters of the land, when they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice unto their gods, they call thee and thou eat of their sacrifice; ¹⁶ And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go a whoring after their gods,

¹³ be sure that the LORD your God will not cast out all these nations before you. But they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges for your sides, and pricks in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

³ Wherefore I have likewise determined that I will not cast them out before you: that they may be a fall unto you, and their gods shall be snares unto you."

¹² and forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, even of the gods of the nations that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and angered the LORD. ¹³ And so they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies. ¹⁵ But unto whatsoever thing they went, the hand of the LORD was upon them with evil luck, even as the LORD promised them, and as he sware unto them. And they were sore vexed.

¹⁷ and yet for all that they would not hearken unto their judges: But went a whoring after strange gods and bowed themselves unto them, and turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD, and did not so.

¹⁹ Yet for all that, as soon as the judge was dead they turned and did worse than their fathers in following strange gods, and in serving them, and ceased not from their inventions nor from their malicious ways.

⁵ And as the children of Israel dwelt among the Cananites, Hittites, Amorites, Perezites, Hivites, and Jebusites, ⁶ they took the daughters of them to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods. ⁷ And so the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD and forgot the LORD their God and served Baalim and Asheroth.

⁶ And the children of Israel wrought wickedness yet again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD and served him not.

⁸ And they walked in the ordinance of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel, and in the things which the kings of Israel had made. ⁹ And the children of Israel wrapped themselves in things that were not well toward the LORD their God. And they built them Hill altars in all their cities, both in the towers where they kept watch and also in the strong towns. ¹⁰ And they made them images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ And there they sacrificed in the Hill altars, as did the heathen which the LORD carried away at their coming, and wrought wicked deeds, to anger the LORD withal.

¹⁶ But they left the commandments of the LORD their God and made them Images of metal, even two calves: and made groves and bowed themselves unto all the Host of heaven, and served Baal. ¹⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters in fire, and used witchcraft and enchantments, and were sold to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, for to anger him.

² And he did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. ³ For he went to and built again the hill altars which Hezekiah his father had broken down. And he reared up altars unto Baals and made groves and bowed himself unto all the host of heaven and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of the LORD: of which the LORD hath said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever." ⁵ And he made altars unto all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. ⁶ And he burnt his children in fire in the valley of the sons of Hinnom. And he observed dismal days and occupied witchcraft and sorcery, and maintained workers with spirits and seers of fortunes: and wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to anger him withal. ⁷ And he put the carved Image of an Idol which he had made, in the house of God — Of which house, God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house here in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes, I will put my name forever, ⁸ and no more bring the seat of Israel from the land which I have ordained for your fathers; if so be, they shall be diligent to do all I have commanded by Moses in all the law ordinances and manners." ⁹ But Manasseh made Judah and the inhabiters of Jerusalem to err and to do worse than the heathen which the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

⁵⁸ And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

¹⁵ "'But thou hast put confidence in thine own beauty, and played the harlot, when thou hadst gotten thee a name. Thou hast committed whoredom with all that went by thee, and hast fulfilled their desires: ¹⁶ Yea, thou hast taken thy garments of divers colors, and decked thine altars therewith, whereupon thou mightest fulfill thine whoredom, of such a fashion as never was done, nor shall be. ¹⁷ The goodly ornaments and Jewels which I gave thee of mine own gold and silver, hast thou taken, and made thee men's images thereof, and committed whoredom withal. ¹⁸ Thy garments of divers colors hast thou taken, and decked them therewith: mine oil and incense hast thou set before them. ¹⁹ My meat which I gave thee, as simnels, oil and honey to feed thee withal, that hast thou set before them, for a sweet savour. And this came also to pass, sayeth the LORD God. ²⁰ Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou, ²¹ that thou slayest my children, and givest them over to be burnt unto them? ²² And yet in all thy abominations and whoredom, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth:, how naked and bare thou wast at that time, and trodden down in thine own blood. ²³ After all these thy wickednesses, woe, woe unto thee, sayeth the LORD. ²⁴ Thou hast builded thy stews and brothel houses in every place: yea, at the head of every street hast thou builded thee an altar. ²⁵ Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast laid out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thine whoredom. ²⁶ Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, which had much flesh: and thus hast thou used thine whoredom to anger me. ²⁷ Behold, I will stretch out mine hand over thee, and will diminish thy store of food, and deliver thee over into the wiles of the Philistines thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abominable way. ²⁸ Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, which might not satisfy thee. Yea, thou hast played the harlot, and not had enough. ²⁹ Thus hast thou still committed thy fornication from the land of Canaan unto the Chaldeans, and yet thy lust not satisfied. ³⁰ How should I circumcise thine heart, sayeth the LORD God, seeing thou doest all these things, thou precious whore? ³¹ Building thy stews at the head of every street, and thy brothel houses in all places? Thou hast not been as another whore, that maketh boast of her winning; ³² but as a wife that breaketh wedlock, and taketh other instead of her husband. ³³ Gifts are given to all other whores, but thou givest rewards unto all thy lovers; and offerest them gifts, to come unto thee out of all places and to commit fornication with thee. ³⁴ It is come to pass with thee in thy whoredoms, contrary to the use of other women: yea, there hath no such fornication been committed after thee, seeing that thou profferest gifts unto other, and no regard is given thee. This is a contrary thing. ³⁵ "'Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O thou harlot. ³⁶ Thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast spent thy money, and discovered thy shame - through thy whoredom with all thy lovers, and with all the Idols of thy abominations, in the blood of thy children whom thou hast given them - ³⁷ Behold therefore, I will gather together all thy lovers, unto whom thou hast made thy self common. Yea, and all them whom thou favourest, and euery one that thou hatest: and will uncover thy shame before them, that they all may see thy filthiness. ³⁸ Moreover, I will judge thee as a breaker of wedlock and a murderer, and recompense thee thine own blood in wrath and jealousy. ³⁹ I will give thee over into their power, that shall break down thy stews, and destroy thy brothel houses: they shall strip thee out of thy clothes, all thy fair and beautiful Jewels shall they take from thee, and so let thee sit naked and bare. ⁴⁰ Yea, they shall bring the common people upon thee, which shall stone thee, and slay thee down with their swords. ⁴¹ They shall burn up thy houses, and punish thee in the sight of many women. Thus will I make thy whoredom to cease, so that thou shalt give out no more rewards. ⁴² Should I make my wrath to be still, take my jealousy from thee, be content, and no more to be displeased? ⁴³ Seeing thou rememberest not the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me to wrath in all these things? Behold therefore, I will bring thine own ways upon thine head, sayeth the LORD God: howbeit, I never did unto thee, according to thy wickedness and all thy abominations. ⁴⁴ "'Behold, all they that use common proverbs, shall use this proverb also against thee: 'Like mother, like daughter.' ⁴⁵ Thou art even thy mother's own daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children. Yea, thou art the sister of thy sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. ⁴⁶ Thine eldest sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell upon thy left hand. But thy youngest sister that dwelleth on thy righthand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they. ⁴⁸ As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, Sodom thy sister with her daughters hath not done so evil as thou and thy daughters. ⁴⁹ Behold, the sins of thy sister Sodom, were these: Pride, fullness of meat, abundance and Idleness: these things had she and her daughters. Besides that, they reached not their hand to the poor and needy, ⁵⁰ but were proud - And did abominable things before me, wherefore I took them away when I had seen it. ⁵¹ Neither hath Samaria done half of thy sins. Yea, thou hast exceeded them in wickedness: Insomuch that in comparison of all the abominations which thou hast done, thou hast made thy sisters good women. ⁵² Therefore thou which didst condemn thy sister: bear thine own shame, for thine own offences that thou hast committed - more abominable than they did, which indeed are more righteous than thou art. Be thou, I say, ashamed; and bear thy shameful rebuke, seeing that thou has proven thy sisters in comparison of the righteous. ⁵³ As for their captivity, namely the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters: I will bring them again. So will I also bring again thy captivity among them: ⁵⁴ that thou mayest take thine own confusion upon thee, and be ashamed of all that thou hast done, and to comfort them. ⁵⁵ Thus thy sisters, namely Sodom and her daughters, Samaria and her daughters, with thyself and thy daughters, shall be brought again to your old estate. ⁵⁶ When thou wast in thy pride, ⁵⁷ and before thy wickedness came to light: thou wouldest not hear speak of thy sister Sodom, until the time that the Syrians with all their towns, and the Philistines, with all that lie round about them, brought thee to shame and confusion: ⁵⁸ that thou mightest bear thine own filthiness and abomination, sayeth the LORD. ⁵⁹ For thus sayeth the LORD God: I should, by right, deal with thee, as thou hast done. Thou hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant. ⁶⁰ "'Nevertheless, I will remember the covenant that I made with thee in thy youth, insomuch that it shall be an everlasting covenant: ⁶¹ So that thou also remember thy ways, and be ashamed of them. Then shalt thou receive of me thy elder and younger sisters, whom I will make thy daughters: and that beside thy covenant. ⁶² And so I will renew my covenant with thee, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD: ⁶³ That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"

²⁸ For after I had brought them into the land that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made there offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet savours there, and poured out their drink offerings. ²⁹ Then I ask them, 'What is that hill altar that you go to it?' And therefore is it called Bamah unto this day. ³⁰ Wherefore, speak unto the house of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Ye are even as unclean as your forefathers, and commit whoredom also with their abominations. ³¹ In all your idols, whereunto ye bring your oblations, and to whose honour ye burn your children: ye defile yourselves, even unto this day. How dare ye then come, and ask any question at me? O ye household of Israel: As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, ye get no answer of me. ³² And as for the thing that ye go about, it shall not come to pass, whereas ye say, 'We will be as the Heathen, and do as other people in the land: wood and stone will we worship.'

⁷ And let them no more offer their offerings unto devils, after whom they go an whoring. And this shall be an ordinance forever unto you throughout your generations.'

³⁰ Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not after their gods saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise?' ³¹ Nay, thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for all abominations which the LORD hated did they unto their gods. For they burnt both their sons and their daughters with fire unto their gods.

¹⁰ Let there not be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go through fire, either a bruterer or a maker of dismal days, or that useth witchcraft, or a sorcerer,

³ But went in the way of the kings of Israel, and thereto he offered his son in fire, after the abomination of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

¹⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters in fire, and used witchcraft and enchantments, and were sold to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, for to anger him.

⁶ And he offered his son in fire, and observed dismal days; and used witchcraft and maintained workers with spirits, and tellers of fortunes — and wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to anger him.

¹⁵ And he ordained him priests of hill altars - both to field devils and also to the calves which he had made.

⁵ Ye take your pleasure under the oaks, and under all green trees. And ye offer children in the valleys, and dens of stone.

³¹ They have also builded an altar at Tophet, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom: that they might burn their sons and daughters - which I never commanded them, neither came it ever in my thought.

³⁵ They have builded high places for Baal in the valley of the children of Hinnom, to cause their sons and daughters to pass through fire in honor of Moloch: which I never commanded them, neither came it ever in my thought, to make Judah sin with such abomination.

²⁰ Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou, ²¹ that thou slayest my children, and givest them over to be burnt unto them?

²⁶ and I unhallowed them in their own gifts when I appointed for myself all their firstborn, to make them desolate: that they might know, how that I am the LORD.'

³⁷ namely, that they have broken their wedlock, and stained their hands with blood: yea even with their idols have they committed adultery, and offered them their own children to be devoured, whom they have born unto me.

⁴⁷ these shall stone them and gore them with their swords. They shall slay their sons and daughters and burn up their houses with fire.

²⁰ But O man what art thou, which disputest with God? Shall the work say to the workman, "Why hast thou made me on this fashion?"

²⁰ Nay, but I say, that these things which the gentiles offer, they offer to devils, and not to God. And I would not that ye should have fellowship with the devils.

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.

⁹ And so shalt thou put innocent blood from thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

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.

⁴ and for the innocent blood that he shed and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not forgive.

¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood.

⁵ For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.

²¹ For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.

³⁴ Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.

²³ "I will make clean riddance, for the land is whole defiled with unrighteous judgment of innocent blood, and the city is full of abominations.

³ and tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: O thou city, that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come also: and makest thee Idols to defile thee withal.

¹⁶ And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go a whoring after their gods,

⁵ yet I will put my face upon that man and upon his household, and will destroy him and all that go a whoring with him and commit whoredom with Moloch from among their people. ⁶ "'If any soul turn him to enchanters or expounders of tokens and go a whoring after them, I will put my face upon that soul and will destroy him from among his people.

³⁹ And the guard shall be unto you to look upon it, that ye remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them: that ye seek not a way after your own hearts and after your own eyes, for to go a whoring after them:

⁵ For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth; and they that dwell therein are fallen into trespass. Wherefore the inhabiters of the earth are perished with drought, and those that remain shall be very few.

³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with unrighteousness; Your lips speak lies, and your tongue setteth out wickedness.

¹ Commonly, when a man putteth away his wife, and she goeth from him, and marrieth with another, then the question is: should he resort unto her any more after that? Is not this field then defiled and unclean? But as for thee, thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, yet turn again to me, sayeth the LORD. ² Lift up thine eyes on every side, and look, if thou be not defiled. Thou hast waited for them in the streets, and as a murderer in the wilderness. through thy whoredoms and shameful blasphemies, is the land defiled.

⁶ The LORD said also unto me, in the time of Josiah the king, "Hast thou seen what that shrinking Israel hath done? How she hath run up upon all high hills, and among all thick trees, and there played the harlot? ⁷ Hast thou seen also, when she had done all this, how I said unto her that she should turn again unto me, and yet she is not returned? Judah, that unfaithful sister of hers also saw this: ⁸ Namely, that after I had well seen the adultery of the shrinking harlot Israel, I put her away, and gave her a bill of divorcement. For all this, her unfaithful sister Judah was not ashamed, but went back and played the whore also. ⁹ Yea, and the noise of her whoredom hath defiled the whole land. For she hath committed her adultery with stones and stocks.

¹⁸ Moreover, I said unto their sons in the wilderness, 'Walk not in the statutes of your forefathers; keep not their ordinances, and defile not yourselves with their idols,

³⁰ Wherefore, speak unto the house of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Ye are even as unclean as your forefathers, and commit whoredom also with their abominations. ³¹ In all your idols, whereunto ye bring your oblations, and to whose honour ye burn your children: ye defile yourselves, even unto this day. How dare ye then come, and ask any question at me? O ye household of Israel: As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, ye get no answer of me.

⁴³ There shall ye call to remembrance your own ways and all your imaginations, wherein ye have been defiled: and ye shall be displeased with your own selves, for all your wickedness, that ye have done.

³ These, when they were young, began to play the harlots in Egypt. There were their breasts bruised, and the paps of their maidenhead destroyed. ⁴ The eldest of them was called Oholah and her youngest sister Oholibah. These two were mine, and bare sons and daughters. Their names were, Samaria, and that was Oholah: and Jerusalem, that was Oholibah. ⁵ As for Oholah, she began to go a whoring, when I had taken her to me. She was set on fire upon her lovers the Assyrians, ⁶ which had to do with her: even the princes and lords, that were decked in costly array: fair young men, lusty riders of horses. ⁷ Thus through her whoredom, she cleaved unto all the young men of Assyria: Yea she was mad upon them, and defiled herself with all their Idols. ⁸ Neither ceased she from the fornication, that she used with the Egyptians: for in her youth they lay with her, they bruised the breasts of her maidenhead, and poured their whoredom upon her. ⁹ Wherefore, I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even the Assyrians, whom she so loved. ¹⁰ These discovered her shame, took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: An evil name gat she of all people, and they punished her. ¹¹ "Her sister Oholibah saw this, and destroyed herself with inordinate love, more than she, and exceeded her sister in whoredom: ¹² she loved the Assyrians, which also lay with her: namely, the princes and great lords, that were clothed with all manner of gorgeous apparel, all lusty horsemen and fair young persons. ¹³ Then I saw, that they both were defiled alike. ¹⁴ But she increased still in whoredom: for when she saw men painted upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans set forth with fresh colors, ¹⁵ with fair girdles about them, and goodly bonnets upon their heads, looking all like princes after the manner of the Babylonians and Chaldeans in their own land, where they be born, ¹⁶ immediately, as soon as she saw them, she burnt in love upon them, and sent messengers for them into the land of the Chaldeans. ¹⁷ Now when the Babylonians came to her, they lay with her, and defiled her with their whoredom, and so was she polluted with them. And when her lust was abated from them, ¹⁸ her whoredom and shame was discovered and seen: then my heart forsook her, like as my heart was gone from her sister also. ¹⁹ Nevertheless, she used her whoredom ever the longer, the more; and remembered the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. ²⁰ She burnt in lust upon them, whose flesh was like the flesh of Asses, and their seed like the seed of horses. ²¹ Thus thou hast renewed the filthiness of thy youth, when thy lovers bruised thy paps, and marred thy breasts in Egypt. ²² "Therefore, O Oholibah, thus sayeth the LORD God: I will raise up thy lovers, with whom thou hast satisfied thy lust, against thee; and gather them together round about thee. ²³ Namely, the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans: Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, with all the Assyrians: all young and fair lovers, princes and lords, knights and gentlemen, which be all good horsemen. ²⁴ These shall come upon thee with horses, chariots, and a great multitude of people: which shall be harnessed about thee on every side, with breastplates, shields and helmets. I will punish thee before them; yea, they themselves shall punish thee according to their own judgment. ²⁵ I will put my jealousy upon thee, so that they shall deal cruelly with thee. They shall cut off thy nose and thine ears, and the remnant shall fall through the sword. They shall carry away thy sons and daughters, and the residue shall be burnt in the fire. ²⁶ They shall strip thee out of thy clothes, and carry thy costly jewels away with them. ²⁷ Thus will I make an end of thy filthiness and whoredom, which thou hast brought out from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt turn thine eyes no more after them, and cast thy mind no more upon Egypt. ²⁸ For thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands of them whom thou hatest: yea, even into the hands of them with whom thou hast fulfilled thy lust. ²⁹ Which shall deal cruelly with thee: All thy labour shall they take with them, and leave thee naked and bare, and thus the shame of thy filthy whoredom shall come to light. ³⁰ All these things shall happen unto thee because of thy whoredom, which thou hast used among the Gentiles, with whose Idols thou hast defiled thyself. ³¹ Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister, therefore will I give thee her cup in thy hand. ³² Thus sayeth the LORD God: Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, how deep and far soever it be to the bottom. Thou shalt be laughed to scorn, and had as greatly in derision, as is possible. ³³ Thou shalt be full of drunkenness and sorrow, for the cup of thy sister Samaria is a cup of destruction and wasting: ³⁴ The same shalt thou drink, and sup it out even to the dregs. Yea, thou shalt eat up the broken pieces of it, and so tear thine own breasts: for even I have spoken it, sayeth the LORD God. ³⁵ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast forgotten me, and cast me aside, so bear now thy own filthiness and whoredom." ³⁶ The LORD said moreover unto me, "Thou son of man, wilt thou not reprove Oholah and Oholibah? Show them their abominations: ³⁷ namely, that they have broken their wedlock, and stained their hands with blood: yea even with their idols have they committed adultery, and offered them their own children to be devoured, whom they have born unto me. ³⁸ Yea, and this have they done unto me also: they have defiled my Sanctuary in that same day, and have unhallowed my Sabbath. ³⁹ For when they had slain their children for their idols, they came the same day into my Sanctuary to defile it. Lo, this have they done in my house. ⁴⁰ Beside all this, thou hast sent thy messengers for men out of far countries: and when they came, thou hast bathed, trimmed and set forth thyself of the best fashion. ⁴¹ Thou sattest upon a goodly bed, and a table spread before thee: whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. ⁴² Then was there great cheer with her: and the men that were sent from far countries over the desert, unto these they gave bracelets upon their hands, and set glorious crowns upon their heads. ⁴³ Then thought I, 'No doubt, these will use their harlotry also with yonder old whore.' ⁴⁴ And they went into her, as unto a common harlot: Even so went they also to Oholah and Oholibah those filthy women. ⁴⁵ O ye all that love virtue and righteousness, judge them! Punish them as adulterers and murderers ought to be judged and punished. For they are breakers of wedlock, and the blood is in their hands. ⁴⁶ Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Bring a great multitude of people upon them, and make them be scattered and spoiled: ⁴⁷ these shall stone them and gore them with their swords. They shall slay their sons and daughters and burn up their houses with fire. ⁴⁸ Thus will I destroy all such filthiness out of the land, that all women may learn not to do after your uncleanness. ⁴⁹ And so they shall lay your filthiness upon your own selves, and ye shall be punished for the sins that ye have committed with your Idols: and ye shall know that I am the LORD."

¹ Do not thou triumph, O Israel; make no boasting more than the Heathen. For thou hast committed adultery against thy God: strange rewards hast thou loved, more than all the corn floors.

¹ And there came one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, "Come, I will show thee the judgment of the great whore, that sitteth upon many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed whoredom, and the inhabiters of the earth are drunken with the wine of her fornication." ³ And he carried me away into the wilderness in the spirit. And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet beast full of names of blasphemy, which had ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold, precious stone, and pearls, and had a cup of gold in her hand, full of abominations, and filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ And in her forehead was a name written, a mystery: "Great Babylon, the mother of whoredom and abominations of the earth." ⁶ And I saw the wife drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great marvel.

²³ And see that ye walk not in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you: For they committed all these things, and I abhorred them.

²⁹ Moreover, they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy mighty power and with thy stretched out arm.'

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

¹⁴ Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies.

²⁰ Wherefore the LORD was angry with Israel and said, "Because this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,

⁸ Therefore the LORD was angry with Israel and delivered them into the hands of Cushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia. So that the children of Israel served Cushanrishathaim eight years.

²⁷ Therefore gavest thou them over into the hand of their enemies that vexed them. And in the time of their trouble they cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from heaven and through thy great mercy thou gavest them saviours, which helped them out of the hand of their enemies. ²⁸ But when they came to rest, they turned back again to do evil before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them. So they converted, and cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from heaven; and many times hast thou delivered them according to thy great mercy, ²⁹ and testified unto them, that they should turn again unto thy law. Notwithstanding, they were proud, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned in thy laws, which a man should do and live in them, and turned the shoulder away, and were stiff-necked, and would not hear. ³⁰ And many years didst thou forbear them, and testified unto them through thy spirit, even by the office of thy prophets, and yet would they not hear. Therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the nations in the lands. ³¹ But for thy great mercies' sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God. ³² Now our God, thou great God, mighty and terrible, thou that keepest covenant and mercy, regard not a little all the travail that hath happened unto us, and our kings, princes, priests, prophets, fathers and all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. ³³ Thou art righteous in all that thou hast brought upon us: for thou hast done right. ³⁴ As for us: we have been ungodly, and our kings, princes, priests, and fathers have not done after thy law, nor regarded thy commandments, and thy earnest exhortations wherewith thou hast exhorted them, ³⁵ and have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goods that thou gavest them, and in the large and plenteous land which thou gavest them; and have not converted from their wicked works. ³⁶ Behold, therefore are we in bondage this day: yea, even in the land that thou gavest unto our fathers, to enjoy the fruits and goods thereof, behold, there are we bondsmen. ³⁷ And great is the increase of it unto the kings, whom thou hast set over us because of our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and cattle, and we are in great trouble. ³⁸ And in all this make we a sure covenant, and write it, and let our princes, Levites, and priests seal it."

¹ {An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

⁵⁹ When God heard this, he was wroth, and took sore displeasure at Israel, ⁶⁰ so that he forsook the Tabernacle in Shiloh, even the tent that he had pitched among men. ⁶¹ He delivered their power into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand. ⁶² He gave his people over unto the sword, for he was wroth with his inheritance.

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

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

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.

²⁹ And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness, and shalt not come to the right way. And thou shalt suffer violence and wrong all thy life long, and no man shall help thee.

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

⁴⁸ therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon thee: in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thine neck, until he have brought thee to nought.

³⁰ How cometh it that one shall chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand of them to flight — except their rock had sold them, and because the LORD had delivered them.

¹² And then the children of Israel went to again, and committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And then the LORD hardened Eglon the king of the Moabites, against the children of Israel, because they had committed wickedness before the LORD.

¹ And the children of Israel began again to do wickedly in the sight of the LORD when Ehud was dead. ² And the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor, whose captain of war was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the gentiles.

¹ And the children of Israel committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Midianites seven years. ² And when the hand of the Midianites was sore upon Israel, the children of Israel made them dens in the mountains and caves and strongholds. ³ For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them, ⁴ and destroyed the increase of the earth even unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel; neither sheep, ox or ass, ⁵ for they came with their cattle and households even as grasshoppers in multitude: so that both they and also their camels were without number. And they entered the land to destroy it. ⁶ And so was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites and cried unto the LORD.

⁷ And the LORD was wroth with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon: ⁸ which pilled and oppressed the children of Israel in those days eighteen years, all that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead. ⁹ Moreover, the children of Ammon went over Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim: so that Israel was sore cumbered. ¹⁰ Then the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee: for we have forsaken our own God, and have served Baalim." ¹¹ And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, "Did not the Egyptians, the Amorites, the children of Ammon, the Philistines, ¹² the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppress you? And ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hands. ¹³ And for all that, ye have forsaken me, and serve strange gods, wherefore I will help you no more. ¹⁴ But go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen, and let them save you in the time of your tribulation." ¹⁵ But the children of Israel said unto the LORD, "We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever please thee, and deliver us only at this time." ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from them and served the LORD. And the misery of Israel grieved his soul. ¹⁷ Then the children of Ammon gathered together and pitched in Gilead. And the children of Israel gathered them together and pitched in Mizpeh. ¹⁸ And the company of the lords of Gilead said each to other, "Whosoever will begin the battle against the children of Ammon, the same shall be head over all the inhabiters of Gilead."

³ And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; He oppressed the children of Israel with power twenty years.

¹² the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppress you? And ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hands.

¹⁶ Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors, ¹⁷ and yet for all that they would not hearken unto their judges: But went a whoring after strange gods and bowed themselves unto them, and turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in obeying the commandments of the LORD, and did not so. ¹⁸ And when the LORD raised up judges unto them, the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the LORD had compassion over their sorrowings which they had by the reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

⁸ "God chose new fashions of war, for when they had war at their gates: there was not seen, among forty thousand, either shield or spear in Israel.

⁵ for they came with their cattle and households even as grasshoppers in multitude: so that both they and also their camels were without number. And they entered the land to destroy it.

⁹ Neverthelater, they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera chief captain of Jabin king of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the king of Moab, which fought against them. ¹⁰ Then they cried unto the LORD and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hands of our enemies and we will serve thee.' ¹¹ And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hands of your enemies on every side, so that ye dwelled without fear.

¹⁹ But there was no smith throughout the land of Israel. For the Philistines thought that then the Hebrews might make them swords or spears.

¹ O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.

²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.

¹⁸ And when the LORD raised up judges unto them, the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hands of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the LORD had compassion over their sorrowings which they had by the reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

⁹ And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD. And the LORD stirred them up a saver and saved them: one Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

⁶ And so was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites and cried unto the LORD. ⁷ And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites, ⁸ the LORD sent a prophet unto them, and said unto them, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: I fetched you from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage ⁹ and I rid you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all that oppressed you, and cast them out before you, and gave you their lands. ¹⁰ And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God, and therefore fear not the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But you have not obeyed my voice."

¹⁰ Then the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee: for we have forsaken our own God, and have served Baalim." ¹¹ And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, "Did not the Egyptians, the Amorites, the children of Ammon, the Philistines, ¹² the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppress you? And ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hands. ¹³ And for all that, ye have forsaken me, and serve strange gods, wherefore I will help you no more. ¹⁴ But go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen, and let them save you in the time of your tribulation." ¹⁵ But the children of Israel said unto the LORD, "We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever please thee, and deliver us only at this time." ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from them and served the LORD. And the misery of Israel grieved his soul.

⁸ and said to Samuel, "Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he may save us out of the hands of the Philistines." ⁹ And Samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it altogether for a burnt offering unto the LORD, and cried unto the LORD for Israel. And the LORD heard him. ¹⁰ And as Samuel offered the burnt offering, the Philistines came to fight against Israel. But the LORD thundered a great thunder the same day upon the Philistines, and turmoiled them, that they were beaten before Israel. ¹¹ And the men of Israel issued out of Mizpeh and pursued the Philistines and slew them, until they came under Bethcar. ¹² And then Samuel took a stone and pitched it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name thereof the stone of help, saying, "Thus far hath the LORD helped us."

²⁶ For the LORD had seen how that the affliction of Israel was exceeding bitter, in so much that the prisoned and the forsaken were at an end. And there was no helper unto Israel. ²⁷ And the LORD had not yet said that men should put out the name of Israel from under heaven. And therefore he helped them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

¹⁴ And the LORD refrained himself from that evil, which he said he would do unto his people.

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.

³⁶ "For the LORD will do justice unto his people, and have compassion on his servants. For it shall be seen that their power shall fail, and at the last they shall be prisoned and forsaken.

¹⁶ And when the Angel stretched out his hand unto Jerusalem to have destroyed it, the LORD had compassion to do that evil, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, "It is sufficient: let thine hand cease." And the Angel was at the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite.

²³ But the LORD had mercy on them and pitied them and turned to them because of his covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and would not destroy them, either cast them from him as yet.

¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD, for thy loving-kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies.

¹³ Turn thee again, O LORD, at the last, and be gracious unto thy servants.

⁸ He is always mindful of his covenant and promise, that he made to a thousand generations,

¹⁴ For the LORD will avenge his people, and be gracious unto his servants.

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

³ So the LORD was gracious therein, and the LORD said, "Well, it shall not be."

⁶ So the LORD was merciful therein, and the LORD God said, "Well, it shall not be."

⁷¹ That we should be saved from our enemies: And from the hands of all that hate us: ⁷² To fulfill the mercy promised to our fathers; And to remember his holy covenant;

⁵⁰ and be merciful unto thy people that have sinned against thee, and unto all their trespass that they have trespassed against thee, and get them favour in the sight of them that hold them captive that they may have compassion on them.

⁹ For if ye turn unto the LORD, then your brethren and your children shall find compassion in the presence of them that hold them captive, that they may come again unto this land: for the LORD your God is full of mercy and compassion, and will not turn his face from you, if ye turn again to him."

⁹ For we are bondmen, and our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, and hath inclined mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, that he should give us life, and promote the house of our God, and to set up the desolation thereof, and to give us a hedge in Judah and in Jerusalem.

¹¹ O LORD, let thine ears mark the prayer of thy servant, and the prayer of thy servants, whose desire is to fear thy name; and let thy servant prosper this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's butler."

¹¹ And the LORD answered me, "Lead not I thee then unto good? Come not I to thee, when thou art in trouble? And help thee, when thine enemy oppresseth thee?

¹² I will pardon you, I will have mercy upon you, and bring you again into your own land.

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."

¹ I give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth forever. ² Let them give thanks whom the LORD hath redeemed, and delivered from the hand of the enemy, ³ and gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

¹ {A song of the stairs} When the LORD turneth again the captivity of Zion, then were we like unto them that dream.

² The LORD doth build up Jerusalem, and gather together the outcasts of Israel.

³⁷ Behold, I will gather them together from all lands wherein I have scattered them in my wrath, in my fearful and great displeasure: and will bring them again unto this place, where they shall dwell safely. ³⁸ And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. ³⁹ And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me all the days of their life, that they and their children after them may prosper. 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. ⁴¹ Yea I will have a lust and pleasure to do them good, and faithfully to plant them in this land, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

²⁴ And I will take you from the heathen, and will gather you out from all lands and will bring you out of your own country. ²⁵ And I will pour pure water upon you, and ye shall be cleansed from all uncleanness, and from all your idols. I will cleanse you. ²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you. And will take away that stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a fleshly heart. ²⁷ And I will put my spirit in you, and will make that ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them. ²⁸ And ye shall dwell in the land which I gave your fathers. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

²¹ and shalt say unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will take away the children of Israel from among the Heathen, unto whom they be gone, and will gather them together on every side, and bring them again into their own land. ²² Yea, I will make one people of them in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and they all shall have but one king. They shall no more be two peoples from henceforth, neither be divided into two kingdoms: ²³ they shall also defile themselves no more with their abominations, Idols, and all their wicked doings. I will help them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned: and will so cleanse them, that they shall be my people, and I their God. ²⁴ David my servant shall be their king, and they all shall have one shepherd only. They shall walk in my laws, and my commandments shall they both keep and fulfill. ²⁵ They shall dwell in the land that I gave unto Jacob my servant, whereas your fathers also have dwelt. Yea even in the same land shall they, their children, and their children's children dwell for evermore: and my servant David shall be their everlasting prince. ²⁶ Moreover, I will make a bond of peace with them, which shall be unto them an everlasting covenant. I will settle them also, and multiply them; my Sanctuary will I set among them for evermore. ²⁷ My dwelling shall be with them, yea I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ²⁸ Thus the Heathen also shall know, that I the LORD am the holy maker of Israel: when my Sanctuary shall be among them for evermore.'"

²⁵ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Now will I bring again the captives of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and be jealous for my holy name's sake. ²⁶ All their confusion and offense that they have done against me, shall be taken away: and so safely shall they dwell in their land, that no man shall make them afraid. ²⁷ And when I have brought them again from among the people, when I have gathered them together out of their enemies' lands, and am praised in them before many Heathen: ²⁸ then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which suffered them to be led into captivity among the Heathen, but now have brought them again into their own land, and not left one of them yonder. ²⁹ After that will I hide my face no more from them, but will pour out my spirit upon the house of Israel, sayeth the LORD God."

¹⁴ Thanks be unto God which always giveth us the victory in Christ, and openeth the savor of his knowledge by us in every place.

¹⁰ and cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be ascribed to him that sitteth upon the seat of our God, and unto the lamb." ¹¹ And all the angels stood in the compass of the seat, and of the elders and of the four beasts, and fell before the seat on their faces, and worshipped God, ¹² saying, amen, "Blessing and glory, wisdom and thanks, and honour, and power and might, be unto our God, for evermore, amen."

¹⁰ And David blessed the LORD before all the congregation and said, "Blessed art thou LORD God of Israel our father, from ever and for ever.

¹³ O blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from henceforth and forevermore. Amen. Amen.

¹⁸ Blessed be the LORD God, even the God of Israel, which only doeth wondrous things. ¹⁹ And blessed be the name of his majesty forever; and all the lands be fulfilled with his glory. Amen, Amen.

⁵² Thanks be to the LORD for evermore. Amen, Amen.

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹⁶ For else when thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say "amen" at thy giving of thanks? Seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?