Psalms 107 Cross References - MSTC

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. ⁴ They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in. ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. ⁶ So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. ⁷ He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to the city where they dwelt. ⁸ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! ⁹ For he satisfieth the greedy soul, and filleth the hungry soul with good. ¹⁰ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron, 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. ¹² They fell down, and there was none to help them. ¹³ So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distress. ¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder. ¹⁵ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! ¹⁶ For he hath broken the gates of brass, and smitten the bars of iron in sunder. ¹⁷ Foolish men were plagued for their offense, and because of their wickedness. ¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all manner of meat, and they were even hard at death's door. ¹⁹ So when they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them out of their distress. ²⁰ He sent his word, and healed them; and they were saved from their destruction. ²¹ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! ²² — That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and tell out his works with gladness! ²³ They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters, ²⁴ these men see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep. ²⁵ For at his word, the stormy wind ariseth, and lifteth up the waves thereof. ²⁶ They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep; their soul melteth away in the trouble. ²⁷ They reel to and fro, they stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. ²⁸ So when they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress. ²⁹ He maketh the storm to cease, so that the waves are still. ³⁰ Then are they glad, because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. ³¹ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! ³² — That they would exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders, ³³ which turneth floods into dry land, and drieth up the watersprings! ³⁴ A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. ³⁵ Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water, and watersprings of a dry ground. ³⁶ There he setteth the hungry, that they may build them a city to dwell in, ³⁷ that they may sow their land and plant vineyards, to yield them fruits of increase. ³⁸ He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceedingly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. ³⁹ When they are minished and brought low through oppression, through any plague or trouble, ⁴⁰ though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants, or let them wander out of the way in the wilderness, ⁴¹ yet helpeth he the poor out of misery, and maketh him a household like a flock of sheep. ⁴² The righteous will consider this and rejoice; the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped. ⁴³ Whoso is wise, and pondereth these things well, shall understand the loving-kindness of the LORD.

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.

¹³ And the trumpet blowers and the singers so agreed, that it seemed but one voice in praising and thanking the LORD. And as the voice of the trumpets, cymbals and instruments of melody arose, and as they praised the LORD, how that he was good and that his mercy lasteth ever, the house of the LORD was filled with a cloud:

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

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

²¹ And he gave the people counsel, and set the singers of the LORD and them that praised in holy apparel, to go out before the army and to say, "Praise the LORD for his mercy lasteth ever."

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.

¹ Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah! O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.

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. ² O give thanks unto the God of all gods! For his mercy endureth forever. ³ O thank the LORD of all lords! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁴ Which only doeth great wonders! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁵ Which by his wisdom made the heavens! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁶ Which laid out the earth above the waters! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁷ Which hath made great lights! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁸ The sun to rule the day! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁹ The moon and the stars to govern the night! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁰ Which smote Egypt with their firstborn! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹¹ And brought out Israel from among them! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹² With a mighty hand and stretched-out arm! For his mercy endureth forever. 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. ¹⁷ Which smote great kings! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁸ Yea, and slew mighty kings! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁹ Sihon, king of the Amorites! For his mercy endureth forever. ²⁰ And Og, the king of Bashan! For his mercy endureth forever. ²¹ And gave away their land for a heritage! For his mercy endureth forever. ²² Even for a heritage unto Israel his servant! For his mercy endureth forever. ²³ Who remembereth us, when we are in trouble! For his mercy endureth forever. ²⁴ And hath delivered us from our enemies! For his mercy endureth forever. ²⁵ Which giveth food unto all flesh! For his mercy endureth forever. ²⁶ O give thanks unto the God of heaven! For his mercy endureth forever.

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."

⁵⁰ And his mercy is always on them that fear him, throughout all generations.

¹⁶ Let fear and dread fall upon them through the greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass through, O LORD; while the people pass through, which thou hast gotten.

⁸ But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, therefore he brought you out of Egypt with a mighty hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage; even from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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.

⁵ Into thy hands I commend my spirit; for thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, thou God of truth.

¹⁰ And he saved them from the adversary's hand, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

⁸ And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins.

⁹ There shall be no lion, and no ravishing beast shall come therein, nor be there, but men shall go there free and safe.

¹ But now, the LORD that made thee O Jacob, and he that fashioned thee O Israel, sayeth thus, "Fear not, for I will defend thee. I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine own.

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

¹² And they shall be called a people of holiness, redeemed of the LORD. And thou shalt be called a haunted city and not forsaken.

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

²¹ And I will rid thee out of the hands of the wicked, and deliver thee out of the hand of Tyrants."

¹¹ For the LORD shall redeem Jacob, and rid him from the hand of the violent.

¹⁰ And now, O thou daughter Zion, be sorry: let it grieve thee as a wife labouring with child. For now must thou get thee out of the city, and dwell upon the plain field: Yea, unto Babylon shalt thou go, there shalt thou be delivered, and there the LORD shall loose thee from the hand of thine enemies.

⁶⁸ "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed his people.

⁷⁴ That we, delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear:

²¹ But we trusted, that it should have been he that should have delivered Israel. And as touching all these things, today is even the third day, that they were done.

¹³ But Christ hath delivered us from the curse of the law, and was made accursed for us — for it is written, "Cursed is everyone that hangeth on tree" —

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

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

³ then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and go and fetch thee again from all the nations, among which the LORD thy God shall have scattered thee.

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.

¹¹ At the same time shall the LORD take in hand again, to conquer the remnant of his people which are left alive: From the Assyrians, Egyptians, Arabians, Ethiopians, Elamites, Chaldeans, Antiochians and Islands of the sea. ¹² And he shall set up a token among the Gentiles, and gather together the dispersed of Israel; yea, and the outcasts of Judah from the four corners of the world. ¹³ The hatred of Ephraim and the enmity of Judah shall be clean rooted out. Ephraim shall bear no evil will to Judah, and Judah shall not hate Ephraim: 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.

⁵ Fear not, for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the East, and gather thee together from the West. ⁶ I will say to the North, 'Let go.' And to the South, 'Keep not back: but bring me my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the world:

¹² And behold, they shall come from far: lo, some from the north and west, some from the south.

⁸ Thus sayeth the LORD God which gathereth together the scattered of Israel: I will bring yet another congregation to him.

¹⁴ I will be found of you, sayeth the LORD. And will deliver you out of prison, and gather you together again out of all places, wherein I have scattered you, sayeth the LORD: and will bring you again to the same place, from whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

⁸ Behold, I will bring them again from out of the north land, and gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and lame that are among them, with the women that be great with child, and such as be also delivered: and the company of them that come again, shall be great.

¹⁰ "Hear the word of the LORD, O ye Gentiles; preach in the Isles that lie far off, and say, 'He that hath scattered Israel, shall gather him together again, and shall keep him as a shepherd doth his flock.'

³⁴ and will bring you out of the nations and lands, wherein ye are scattered; and gather you together with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm and with indignation poured out upon you;

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.

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:

⁹ and they sung a new song saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast killed, and hast redeemed us by thy blood, out of all kindreds, and tongues, and people, and nations,

¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Beersheba. ¹⁵ When the water was spent that was in the bottle, she cast the lad under a bush ¹⁶ and went and sat her out of sight a great way; as it were a bowshot off. For she said, "I will not see the lad die." And she sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and wept.

³³ And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness,

¹³ And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed.

¹⁵ and which led thee in the wilderness both great and terrible with fiery serpents and scorpions and thirst where was no water, which brought the water out of the rock of flint:

¹⁰ "He found him in a desert land, in a void ground and a roaring wilderness. He led him about and gave him understanding, and kept him as the apple of his eye.

²⁴ He changeth the heart of the princes and kings of the earth, and disapointeth them; so that they go wandering out of the way,

⁴⁰ though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants, or let them wander out of the way in the wilderness,

⁶ My sheep go wandering upon all mountains, and upon every high hill. Yea they be scattered abroad in all fields, and there is no man, that careth for them, or seeketh after them.

¹² Like as a shepherd among the flock seeketh after the sheep that are scattered abroad, even so will I seek after my sheep, and gather them together out of all places, where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

³⁸ which the world was not worthy of: They wandered in wilderness, in mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

⁶ And the woman fled into wilderness, where she had a place, prepared of God, that they should feed her there, one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

¹⁸ And he was sore a thirst, and called on the LORD and said, "Thou LORD hath given this great victory, through the hand of thy servant. And now I must die for thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised." ¹⁹ But God brake a great tooth that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout. And when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he was refreshed, wherefore the name thereof was called the Well of the Caller-on, which is in Lehi unto this day.

¹¹ Then they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David and gave him bread to eat and water to drink, ¹² and gave him a few figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten his spirits came again to him: for he had eaten no bread nor drunk no water in three days and three nights.

¹² The smith taketh iron, and tempereth it with hot coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and maketh it with all the strength of his arms: yea, sometimes he is faint for very hunger, and so thirsty, that he hath no more power.

¹⁸ For if I go into the field, lo, it lieth all full of slain men: If I come into the city, lo, they be all famished of hunger. Yea, their prophets also and priests shall be led into an unknown land.'"

¹⁹ {Kuf} Stand up and make thy prayer in the first watch of the night; pour out thine heart like water before the LORD. Lift up thine hands for the lives of thy young children that die of hunger in the streets.

² "I have compassion on this people, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat: ³ And if I should send them away fasting to their own houses, they should faint by the way. For divers of them came from far."

¹⁵ And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."

¹⁵ When he calleth upon me, I shall hear him: Yea I am with him in his trouble; whereout I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

¹³ So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distress.

¹⁹ So when they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them out of their distress.

²⁸ So when they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress.

¹⁷ When the thirsty and poor seek water, and find none, and when their tongue is dry of thirst: I give it them, sayeth the LORD. I, the God of Israel, forsake them not. ¹⁸ I bring forth floods in the hills, and wells in the plain fields. I turn the wilderness to rivers, and the dry land to conduits of water.

¹² Ye shall cry unto me, ye shall go and call upon me, and I shall hear you. ¹³ Ye shall seek me, and find me: Yea, if so be that ye seek me with your whole heart, ¹⁴ I will be found of you, sayeth the LORD. And will deliver you out of prison, and gather you together again out of all places, wherein I have scattered you, sayeth the LORD: and will bring you again to the same place, from whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

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

⁸ Brethren, I would not have you ignorant of our trouble, which happened unto us in Asia. For we were grieved out of measure passing strength, so greatly that we despaired even of life. ⁹ Also we received an answer of death in ourselves, and that was done because we should not put our trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead to life again - ¹⁰ and which delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver — on whom we trust, that yet hereafter he will deliver us,

⁸ For this thing besought I the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me, ⁹ and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me. ¹⁰ Therefore have I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in need, in persecutions, in anguish, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹¹ persecutions, and afflictions which happened unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra: which persecutions I suffered patiently; And from them all the Lord delivered me.

¹⁵ For we have not a high priest, which cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but was in all points tempted, as we are: but yet without sin. ¹⁶ Let us therefore go boldly unto the seat of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

²¹ And even there at the water beside Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and our children and all our substance. ²² For I was ashamed to require of the king, soldiers and horsemen, to help us against the enemy in the way. For we had said unto the king, "The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness, and his violence and wrath is upon all them that forsake him." ²³ So we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he heard us.

³ These are the heads of the land that dwelt at Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah; And every one dwelt in his possession, and in their cities of Israel, the priests, Levites, the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants.

²⁰ Thou leddest thy people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵² But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, and carried them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁴ They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in.

³⁶ There he setteth the hungry, that they may build them a city to dwell in,

¹⁶ Who led his people through the wilderness! For his mercy endureth forever.

²¹ and thine ears hearken to his word that cryeth after thee and sayeth, "This is the way. Walk ye in it. Turn not aside; neither to the righthand nor to the left."

⁸ There shall be foot paths and common streets: this shall be called the holy way. No unclean person shall go through it, for the LORD himself shall go with them that way, and the ignorant shall not err. ⁹ There shall be no lion, and no ravishing beast shall come therein, nor be there, but men shall go there free and safe. 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.

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.

⁸ And thus sayeth the LORD: In the time appointed will I be present with thee. And in the hour of health will I help thee, and deliver thee. I will make thee a pledge for the people, so that thou shalt help up the earth again, and challenge again the scattered heritages: ⁹ That thou mayest say to the prisoners, "Go forth," and to them that are in darkness, "Come into the light." That they may feed in the high ways, and get their living in all places. ¹⁰ There shall neither hunger nor thirst, heat nor Sun hurt them. For he that favoureth them shall lead them, and give them drink of the spring wells. ¹¹ I will make ways upon all my mountains, and my foot paths shall be exalted.

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.

¹⁶ Thus sayeth the LORD, "Go into the streets, consider and make inquisition for the old way: and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may find rest for your souls. But they say, 'We will not walk therein.'

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

²⁴ And there shall dwell Judah, and all her cities, the shepherds and husbandmen:

³⁸ Behold, the days come, sayeth the LORD, that the city of the LORD shall be enlarged from the tower of Hananel, unto the gate of the corner wall. ³⁹ From thence shall the right measure be taken before her unto the hill top of Gareb, and shall come about Golgotha ⁴⁰ and the whole valley of the dead carcasses, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron: and from thence unto the corner of the horse gate toward the East, whereas the Sanctuary of the LORD also shall be set. And when it is now builded, and set up of this fashion it shall never be broken, nor cast down anymore."

¹⁰ "Moreover thus sayeth the LORD: In this place, whereof ye say that it shall be a wilderness, wherein neither people nor cattle shall dwell: in like manner in the cities of Judah and without Jerusalem - which also shall be so void, that neither people nor cattle shall dwell there - 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. ¹² Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: It shall come yet thereto, that in this land, which is void from men and cattle, and in all the cities of the land, there shall be set up shepherd's cottages: ¹³ in the cities upon the mountains; and in the cities that lie upon the plain and in the desert. In the land of Benjamin, in the fields of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah shall the sheep be numbered again, under the hand of him that telleth them, sayeth the LORD.

⁹ By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he looked for a city having a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.

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

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

¹⁵ and have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, which loved the reward of unrighteousness:

²¹ For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, then after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them.

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

¹⁰ And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and a high mountain, and he showed me the great city, holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the brightness of God. And her shining was like unto a stone most precious, even a Jasper clear as Crystal: ¹² and had walls great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels: and names written, which are the twelve tribes of Israel: ¹³ on the east part three gates, and on the north side three gates, and towards the south three gates, and from the west three gates. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the Lamb's twelve apostles. ¹⁵ And he that talked with me, had a golden reed to measure the city withal and the gates thereof and the wall thereof. ¹⁶ And the city was built four square, and the length was as large as the breadth of it, and he measured the city with the reed twelve thousand furlongs: and the length, and the breadth, and the height of it, were equal. ¹⁷ And he measured the wall thereof a hundred and forty four cubits: the measure that the angel had was after the measure that man useth. ¹⁸ And the building of the wall of it was of jasper. And the city was pure gold like unto clear glass ¹⁹ and the foundations of the wall of the city was garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third a chalcedony, the fourth an emerald: ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx: the sixth sardius: the seventh chrysolite: the eighth beryl: the ninth a topaz: the tenth a chrysoprasus: the eleventh a jacinth: the twelfth an amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls, every gate was of one pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, as through shining glass. ²² And there was no temple therein. For the Lord God almighty and the lamb are the temple of it. ²³ And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to lighten it. For the brightness of God did light it: and the lamb was the light of it. ²⁴ And the people which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory unto it. ²⁵ And the gates of it are not shut by day. For there shall be no night there. ²⁶ And in to it shall they bring the glory and honour of the nations. ²⁷ And there shall enter into it none unclean thing; neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh lies, but they only which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

²⁹ Oh that they had such a heart with them to fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might go well with them and with their children forever.

²⁹ I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'

³ O praise the LORD with me, and let us magnify his name together.

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.

⁴ that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

¹³ O that my people would obey me! For if Israel would walk in my ways, ¹⁴ I should soon have put down their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. ¹⁵ The haters of the LORD should have been found liars; but their time should have endured for ever. ¹⁶ He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-flour; and with honey out of the stony rock should I have satisfied thee."

¹ {A Psalm of the song for the Sabbath Day} It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most highest! ² To tell of thy loving-kindness early in the morning, and of thy truth in the night season;

¹⁵ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!

²¹ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!

³¹ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!

⁴ The merciful and gracious LORD hath so done his marvelous works, that they ought to be had in remembrance.

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} Praise ye the LORD, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God; yea, a joyful and pleasant thing is it to be thankful.

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.

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.

² I thought it good to show the tokens and marvelous works that the high God hath wrought upon me. ³ O how great are his tokens, and how mighty are his wonders? His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his power lasteth for ever and ever.

²⁷ It is he that delivereth and saveth: he doth wonders and marvelous works, in heaven and in earth: he hath preserved Daniel from the power of the Lions."

²⁶ The poor shall eat, and be satisfied: they that seek after the LORD shall praise him. Your heart shall live for ever.

¹⁰ The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.

¹⁵ I will bless her victuals with increase, and will satisfy her poor with bread.

⁷ who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison;

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

¹⁴ I will pour plenteousness upon the hearts of the priests, and my people shall be satisfied with good things, sayeth the LORD."

²⁵ For I shall feed the hungry soul, and refresh all faint hearts."

⁶ Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled.

⁵³ He hath filled the hungry with good things: And sendeth away the rich empty.

¹⁶ They shall hunger no more neither thirst, neither shall the sun light on them, neither any heat. ¹⁷ For the lamb which is in the midst of the seat, shall feed them, and shall lead them unto fountains of living water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."

²³ And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried. ²⁴ And their complaint came up unto God from the labour. And God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

¹¹ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the Captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh in a hold and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon.

⁵ but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.

⁸ But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty: ⁹ then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

¹⁸ whose feet they hurt in the stocks. The iron pierced his heart,

² The people that have dwelt in darkness, shall see a great light. As for them that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them shall the light shine.

⁷ That thou mayest open the eyes of the blind; let out the prisoners, and them that sit in darkness, out of the dungeon house.

⁶ He hath set me in darkness, as they that be dead forever. ⁷ {Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.

⁸ O thou enemy of mine, rejoice not at my fall, for I shall get up again: and though I sit in darkness, yet the LORD is my light.

¹⁶ the people which sat in darkness saw great light and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light has begun to shine."

¹³ Then said the King to his ministers, 'Take and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

⁷⁹ To give light to them that sat in darkness, and in shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."

²⁰ For when ye were servants of sin, ye were not under righteousness. ²¹ What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed. For the end of those things is death.

⁵ They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry cease so to be: insomuch that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble. ⁶ The LORD killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to hell and fetcheth up again. ⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high. ⁸ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.

¹⁵ Wherefore the LORD was wroth with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, and said to him, "Why seekest thou the gods of the people which were not able to deliver their own people out of thine hands?" ¹⁶ And as the prophet spake to him, he said to the prophet, "Have men made thee of the king's counsel? Cease, lest thou be beaten." And the prophet ceased, and said, "I am sure that God hath taken counsel to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and obeyest not my counsel."

¹⁰ And when the LORD spake to Manasseh and to his people, they attended not to him.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.

⁶ He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in a house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity, but letteth the renegades continue in scarceness.

¹⁸ Thou art gone up on high; thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men, yea, even for thine enemies, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

²⁴ Thou leadest me with thy counsel, and afterward receivest me unto glory.

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

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.

⁴³ Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness.

⁷ Which taketh up the simple out of the dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire, ⁸ that he may set him among the princes, even among the princes of his people. ⁹ Which maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

²⁴ For thy testimonies are my delight, and my counsellors.

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

³⁰ but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction. ³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:

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

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

¹⁶ "As for the words that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will in no wise hear them:

³⁹ Wherefore then murmureth the living man, let him murmur at his own sin. ⁴⁰ {Nun} Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the LORD. ⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto the God that is in heaven. ⁴² We have been dissemblers, and have offended; will thou therefore not be intreated?

¹⁵ The joy of our heart is gone, our merry query is turned into mourning. ¹⁶ The garland of our head is fallen: alas, that ever we sinned so sore! ¹⁷ Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim:

³⁰ But the Pharisees and scribes despised the counsel of God, against themselves, and were not baptised of him.

¹⁴ All these things heard the Pharisees also which were covetous. And they mocked him,

²⁷ For I have kept nothing back: but have showed you all the counsel of God.

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

²³ And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

¹⁸ Go therefore and work, for there shall no straw be given you, and yet see that ye deliver the whole tale of brick." ¹⁹ When the officers of the children of Israel saw themself in shrewd case — in that he said, 'ye shall minish nothing of your daily making of brick' -

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."

²¹ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes; and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters. And he was made to grind in the prison house.

³⁰ and said, "My soul die with the Philistines," and bowed them with might. And the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were therein. And so the dead which he slew at his death, were more than they which he slew in his life.

²⁶ And as the king of Israel walked upon the walls, there cried a woman to him, saying, "Help, my lord king." ²⁷ And he said, "Nay, the LORD help thee. But wherewith should I help thee, with corn or wine?"

³³ And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger was come unto him. And he said, "Behold, this evil is of the LORD! What more shall we look for of the LORD?"

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.

¹³ He is God, whose wrath no man may withstand: but the proudest of all must stoop under him.

⁴⁰ Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.} ⁴¹ They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: Yea, even unto the LORD shall they cry, but he shall hear them not. {TYNDALE: They looked for help, but none came to save them: unto the LORD they cried, but he heard them not.}

¹¹ O go not far from me then, for trouble is hard at hand, and here is none to help me.

⁴ I look upon my righthand, and see there is no man that will know me. I have no place to flee unto, no man careth for my soul.

¹⁹ Both these things are happened unto thee, but who is sorry for it? Yea, destruction, wasting, hunger and sword: but who hath comforted thee? ²⁰ Thy sons lie comfortless at the head of every street like a taken venison, and are full of the terrible wrath of the LORD, and punishment of thy God.

²³ And will put it in their hand that trouble thee: which have spoken to thy soul, "Stoop down, that we may go over thee: make thy body even with the ground, and as the street to go upon."

⁵ And now what profit is it to me, sayeth the LORD? That my people is freely carried away, and brought into heaviness by their rulers, and my name ever still blasphemed, sayeth the LORD?

⁵ I looked about me, and there was no man to show me any help. I fell down, and no man held me up. Then I held me by mine own arm, and my ferventness sustained me:

⁵ Our necks are under persecution, we are weary, and have no rest. ⁶ Afore time we yielded ourselves to the Egyptians, and now to the Assyrians, only that we might have bread enough.

¹⁴ And when he had spent all that he had, there rose a great dearth throughout all that same land. And he began to lack. ¹⁵ And he went, and clave to a citizen of that same country, which sent him to his field, to keep his swine. ¹⁶ And he would fain have filled his belly with the cods, that the swine ate: and no man gave him. ¹⁷ Then he came to himself and said, 'How many hired servants at my father's have bread enough, and I die for hunger.

⁷ Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow, ⁸ and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and of the Jebusites.

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.

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."

¹² And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and made intercession to him: and he was entreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And then Manasseh knew how that the LORD was very God.

¹⁸ The rest of the acts of Manasseh and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers of visions that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, are written among the deeds of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁹ And his prayer and how he was heard, and all his sin and trespass, and the places where he made hill altars and set up groves and carved Images before he was meekened, are written among the deeds of the seers of visions.

⁶ In my trouble I will call upon the LORD, and complain unto my God. So he shall hear my voice out of his holy temple, and my complaint shall come before him: it shall enter even into his ears. {TYNDALE: In my tribulation I called to the LORD, and cried to my God. And he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry entered into his ears.}

⁶ So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.

³ The snares of death compassed me round about, the pains of hell got hold upon me. ⁴ I shall find trouble and heaviness, and I will call upon the Name of the LORD, "O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul." ⁵ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous, yea our God is merciful. ⁶ The LORD preserveth the simple; I was brought down in misery and he helped me.

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

²¹ before I go thither, from whence I shall not turn again. Namely, to that land of darkness and shadow of death: ²² yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."

²² He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness; the sword is always before his eyes.

³⁰ He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away.

⁸ "He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.

³⁰ that he keepeth his soul from perishing, and letteth him enjoy the light of the living.

⁸ But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty:

¹⁰ and the LORD turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yea, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had afore. ¹¹ And then came there unto him all his brethren, all his sisters, with all them that had been of his acquaintance afore, and ate bread with him in his house: wondering at him, and comforting him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him. Every man gave him a sheep and a Jewel of gold. ¹² And the LORD made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.

²⁰ that he may hear the mournings of such as be in captivity, and deliver the children that are appointed unto death,

¹⁹ until the time that his word came, and until the word of the LORD had tried him. ²⁰ Then sent the king and caused him to be delivered; the prince of the people had let him go.

¹⁰ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron,

¹⁶ Behold, O LORD, how that I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder.

¹⁶ I will bring the blind into the street, that they know not: and lead them in to a foot path, that they are ignorant in. I shall make darkness light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight. These things will I do, and not forget them.

⁹ That thou mayest say to the prisoners, "Go forth," and to them that are in darkness, "Come into the light." That they may feed in the high ways, and get their living in all places.

¹ Up and receive light, Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is up over thee. ² For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and a thick mist the nations. But the LORD shall rise as the sun over thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. ³ And the heathen shall walk in thy light, and the kings in the brightness that is risen over thee.

¹ The spirit of the LORD God is with me, for the LORD hath anointed me, and sent me to preach good tidings unto the poor: that I might bind up the wounded hearts, that I might preach deliverance to the captive, and open the prison to them that are bound;

³¹ In the thirty seventh year after that Jehoiachin the king of Judah was carried away in the twenty fifth day of the twelfth Month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, the same year that he reigned, gave Jehoiachin the king of Judah his pardon, and let him out of prison, ³² and spake lovingly to him. And set his throne above the thrones of the other kings that were with him in Babylon. ³³ He changed also the clothes of his prison; yea, and he ate with him all his life long. ³⁴ And he had a continual living given him of the king of Babylon; every day a certain thing allowed him all the days of his life, until he died.

¹¹ Thou also, through the blood of thy covenant, shalt let thy prisoners out of the pit, wherein is no water. ¹² Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.

¹⁶ And ought not this daughter of Abraham, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day, whom Satan hath bound lo, eighteen years?"

¹⁹ But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth, and said,

²⁵ Then came one and showed them, "Behold, the men that ye put in prison stand in the temple, and teach the people."

⁷ And behold, the angel of the Lord was there present, and a light shined in the lodge. And he smote Peter on the side, and stirred him up, saying, "Arise up quickly." And his chains fell off from his hands. ⁸ And the angel said unto him, "Gird thyself and bind on thy sandals." And so he did. And he said unto him, "Cast on thy mantle about thee, and follow me." ⁹ And he came out, and followed him: and wist not that it was truth which was done by the angel; but thought he had seen a vision. ¹⁰ When they were past the first and the second watch, they came unto the iron gate, that leadeth unto the city, which opened to them by his own accord. And they went out and passed through one street, and by and by the angel departed from him.

²⁶ And suddenly, there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken, and by and by all the doors opened, and every man's bonds were loosed. ²⁷ When the keeper of the prison waked out of his sleep, and saw the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing the prisoners had been fled. ²⁸ But Paul cried with a loud voice saying, "Do thyself no harm, for we are all here." ²⁹ Then he called for a light and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, ³⁰ and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" ³¹ And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved and thy household." ³² And they preached unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. ³³ And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds, and was baptised, with all that belonged unto him, straightway. ³⁴ When he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and joyed that he with all his household believed on God. ³⁵ And when it was day, the officers sent the ministers saying, "Let those men go." ³⁶ The keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, "The officers have sent word to loose you. Now therefore get you hence and go in peace." ³⁷ Then said Paul unto them, "They have beaten us, openly un-condemned, for all that we are Romans, and have cast us into prison: and now would they send us away privily? Nay not so, but let them come themselves and fetch us out." ³⁸ When the ministers told these words unto the officers, they feared when they heard that they were Romans; ³⁹ and came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city. ⁴⁰ And they went out of the prison and entered into the house of Lydia, and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed.

⁸ Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

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,

⁸ O that men would therefore praise the LORD for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!

¹⁷ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows unto the LORD in the sight of all his people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the LORD's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

³ And Samson took his rest till midnight, and arose at midnight took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two side posts, and rent them off, bars and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that lieth before Hebron.

¹ Thus sayeth the LORD unto Cyrus his anointed, whom I have taken by the righthand, to subdue nations before him: I will loose the girdles of kings, that they shall open the gates before thy face, and not to shut their doors. ² I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.

¹³ Whoso breaketh the gap, he shall go before. They shall break up the port, and go in and out at it. Their king shall go before them, and the LORD shall be upon the head of them.

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.

¹⁰ and the cloud departed from the tabernacle. And behold, Miriam was become leprous, as it were snow. And when Aaron looked upon Miriam and saw that she was leprous, ¹¹ he said unto Moses, "Oh I beseech thee my lord, put not the sin upon us which we have foolishly committed and sinned. ¹² Oh, let her not be as one that came dead out of his mother's womb: for half her flesh is eaten away." ¹³ And Moses cried unto the LORD saying, "Oh God, heal her."

⁵ And the people spake against God and against Moses, "Wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, for to die in the wilderness? For here is neither bread nor water, and our souls loatheth this light bread." ⁶ Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, which stung them: so that much people died in Israel. ⁷ And the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against thee: make intercession to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." And Moses made intercession for the people. ⁸ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Make thee a serpent and hang it up for a sign, and let as many as are bitten look upon it and they shall live." ⁹ And Moses made a serpent of brass and set it up for a sign. And when the serpents had bitten any man, he went and beheld the serpent of brass and recovered.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The fool hath said in his heart, "Tush, there is no God." They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one.

¹ {To the Chanter, To Bring Remembrance} Put me not to rebuke, O LORD, in thy anger; O chasten me not in thy heavy displeasure. ² For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. ³ There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure; neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin. ⁴ For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear. ⁵ My wounds stink, and are corrupt, through my foolishness. ⁶ I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long. ⁷ For my loins are filled with a sore disease, and there is no whole part in my body. ⁸ I am feeble and sore smitten, I roar for the very disquietness of my heart.

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

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?

⁷ and beheld the simple people: and among other young folks I spied one young fool

²² suddenly to follow her - as it were an ox to the slaughter, and like as it were a fool that laugheth when he goeth to the stocks to be punished -

¹⁷ I am wroth with him for his covetousness and lust, I smite him, I hide me, and am angry, when he turneth himself, and followeth the byway of his own heart. ¹⁸ But if I may see his right way again, I make him whole, I lead him and restore him unto them whom he maketh joyful, and that were sorry for him.

⁶ Behold, it is written before my face, and shall not be forgotten, but recompensed. I shall reward it them into their bosom: ⁷ I mean your misdeeds, and the misdeeds of your fathers together, sayeth the LORD, which have made their smokes upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their old deeds into their bosom again.

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy turning away shall condemn thee: that thou mayest know and understand, how evil and hurtful a thing it is, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and not feared him, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts.

³⁹ Wherefore then murmureth the living man, let him murmur at his own sin.

¹⁹ "He chasteneth him with sickness, and bringeth him to his bed: he layeth sore punishment upon his bones, ²⁰ so that his life may away with no bread, and his soul abhorreth to eat any dainty meat: ²¹ Insomuch that his body is clean consumed away, and his bones appear no more. ²² His soul draweth on to destruction, and his life to death.

¹⁷ Have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the door of everlasting treasure?

¹³ Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death.

³ For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell.

¹⁰ "I thought I should have gone to the gates of hell in my best age, and have wanted the residue of my years.

⁸ Then cried I unto thee, O LORD, and got me to my LORD right humbly. ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down into the pit? Shall the dust give thanks unto thee? Or shall it declare thy truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me. LORD, be thou my helper. ¹¹ Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. ¹² Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing. O my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever.

⁴ I sought the LORD, and he heard me; yea, he delivered me out of all my fear. ⁵ They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed. ⁶ Lo, the poor crieth, and the LORD heareth him, yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles.

³⁴ When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their strength, and that the high God was their redeemer.

⁴ I shall find trouble and heaviness, and I will call upon the Name of the LORD, "O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul." ⁵ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous, yea our God is merciful. ⁶ The LORD preserveth the simple; I was brought down in misery and he helped me. ⁷ Turn again then unto thy rest, O my soul, for the LORD hath given thee thy desire. ⁸ And why? Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

³ Thou hast cried unto me, and I have heard thee: I have showed great and high things, which were unknown unto you."

⁴ And Isaiah was scarce gone out into the middle of the city, but that the word of the LORD came to him, saying, ⁵ "Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people: 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer and seen thy tears. Behold, I will heal thee, and this day three days thou shalt go up into the house of the LORD.

²³ Now if there be a messenger, one among a thousand sent for to speak unto man, and to show him the right way; ²⁴ then the LORD is merciful unto him, and sayeth, 'He shall be delivered, that he fall not down to destruction, for I am sufficiently reconciled.' ²⁵ Then his flesh, which hath been in misery and trouble, shall be as it was in his youth. ²⁶ For if he submit himself unto God, he is gracious, and showeth him his countenance joyfully, and rewardeth man for his righteousness.

²⁸ Yea, he hath delivered my soul from destruction, and my life, that it seeth the light.' ²⁹ "Lo, thus worketh God always with man, ³⁰ that he keepeth his soul from perishing, and letteth him enjoy the light of the living.

² O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. ³ Thou, LORD, hast brought my soul out of hell: thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit.

¹⁵ But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah.

¹³ For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

³ Who forgiveth all thy sin, and healeth all thine infirmities? ⁴ Who saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy, and loving-kindness?

³ He healeth the contrite in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

¹⁵ He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth, and his word runneth swiftly.

¹⁸ He sendeth out his word, and melteth them; he bloweth with his wind, and the waters flow. ¹⁹ He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel.

⁸ The Centurion answered and said, "Sir, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

²⁵ But Hezekiah did not according to the courtesy showed him, for his heart arose: and therefore came there wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

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

¹⁸ There are not found that returned again, to give God praise, save only this stranger."

¹² If he offer to give thanks, he shall bring unto his thank offering: sweet cakes mingled with oil and sweet wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil of fine flour fried,

¹¹ O praise the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion; show the people of his doings.

¹⁴ Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the most highest.

²⁸ But it is good for me to hold me fast by God, to put my trust in the LORD God, and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

¹ O give thanks unto the LORD, and call upon his name; tell the people what things he hath done. ² O let your songs be of him; praise him, and let your talking be of all his wondrous works.

¹² What reward shall I give unto the LORD, for all the benefits that he hath done unto me?

¹⁷ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

¹⁷ I will not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

⁴ And ye shall say in that day, 'Give thanks unto the LORD: call on his name: make his deeds known among the heathen: remember that his name is high.'

¹⁵ For by him offer we the sacrifice of praise always to God: that is to say, the fruit of those lips, which confess his name.

⁵ and ye, as living stones, are made a spiritual house, and a holy priesthood, for to offer up spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

⁷ Thou shalt break the ships of the sea, through the east wind.

¹⁰ Sing unto the LORD, a new song of thanksgiving; blow out his praise unto the end of the world. They that be upon the sea, and all that is therein, praise him; the Isles and they that dwell in them.

²⁶ "'Thy mariners were ever bringing unto thee out of many waters. But the east wind shall overbear thee into the midst of the sea:

⁹ When much time was spent and sailing was now jeopardous, because also that we had overlong fasted, Paul put them in remembrance, ¹⁰ and said unto them, "Sirs I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not of the lading and ship only: but also of our lives." ¹¹ Neverthelater, the under-captain believed the governor, and the master, better than those things which were spoken of Paul. ¹² And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, many took counsel to depart thence, if by any means they might attain to Phoenix and there to winter, which is a haven of Crete, and serveth to the southwest, and northwest wind. ¹³ When the south wind blew, they supposing to obtain their purpose loosed unto Assos, and sailed past all Crete. ¹⁴ But anon after there arose, against their purpose, a flaw of wind out of the northeast. ¹⁵ And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the wind, we let her go and drave with the weather. ¹⁶ And we came unto an isle named Cauda; And had much work to come by a boat, ¹⁷ which they took up, and used help undergirding the ship, fearing lest we should have fallen into Syrtis, and we let down a vessel and so were carried. ¹⁸ The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship, ¹⁹ and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. ²⁰ When at the last neither sun nor star in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay upon us, all hope that we should be saved, was then taken away. ²¹ Then after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, "Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me, and not have loosed from Crete, neither to have brought unto us this harm and loss. ²² And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you: save of the ship only. ²³ For there stood by me this night the angel of God: whose I am, and whom I serve: ²⁴ saying, 'Fear not Paul, for thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath given unto thee all that sail with thee.' ²⁵ Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God that so it shall be even as it was told me; ²⁶ Howbeit, we must be cast into a certain island." ²⁷ But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were carried in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that there appeared some country unto them, ²⁸ and they sounded, and found it twenty fathoms; And when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

¹⁷ for at one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every ship governor, and all they that occupied ships, and shipmen which work in the sea, stood afar off;

⁸ Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb? ⁹ When I made the clouds to be a covering for it, and swaddled it with the dark; ¹⁰ When I gave it my commandment, making doors and bars for it; ¹¹ saying, 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shalt thou lay down thy proud and high waves.'

⁵ The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands prepared the dry land.

²⁴ O LORD, how manifold are thy works! Right wisely hast thou made them all; yea, the earth is full of thy riches. ²⁵ So is this great and wide sea also, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. ²⁶ There go the ships over, and there is that Leviathan, whom thou hast made, to take his pastime therein. ²⁷ These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest give them meat in due season.

³ The floods are risen, O LORD. The floods have lift up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

³¹ He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters.

³⁴ He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable,

⁷ He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world, and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain, bringing the winds out of their treasuries.

⁸ fire and hail, snow and vapors, wind and storm, fulfilling his word;

⁴ But the LORD hurled a great wind in to the sea, so that there was a mighty tempest in the sea: insomuch that the ship was like to go in pieces.

²⁴ And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with waves, and he was asleep.

¹⁸ And the sea arose with a great wind that blew.

¹⁰ By the reason whereof, the best men thou hast whose hearts are as the hearts of lions, shall shrink thereat. For all Israel knoweth that thy father is a man, and that they which be with him be children of activity.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.

²⁸ My soul melteth away for very heaviness; comfort thou me according unto thy word.

⁷ Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away;

¹⁰ Thus must she be spoiled, emptied and clean stripped out: that their hearts may be melted away, their knees tremble, all their loins be weak, and their faces black as a pot.

²⁵ and grope in the dark without light, staggering to and fro like drunken men.

²⁰ Shall it be told him what I say? Should a man speak, or should he keep it back?

³ And Egypt shall be choked in herself. When they ask counsel at their idols, at their sorcerors, at their soothsayers and witches: then will I bring their counsel to naught.

¹⁴ For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.

²⁰ The earth shall stagger like a drunkard, to and fro; and be taken away like a tent. Her misdeeds shall lie so heavy upon her, that she must fall, and never rise up again.

⁹ Ponder these things once in your mind, and wonder: Blinded are they themselves, and the blind guides of others; they are drunken, but not with wine; they are unstable, but not through strong drink.

¹⁵ And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the wind, we let her go and drave with the weather. ¹⁶ And we came unto an isle named Cauda; And had much work to come by a boat, ¹⁷ which they took up, and used help undergirding the ship, fearing lest we should have fallen into Syrtis, and we let down a vessel and so were carried. ¹⁸ The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship, ¹⁹ and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. ²⁰ When at the last neither sun nor star in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay upon us, all hope that we should be saved, was then taken away.

⁵ And the mariners were afraid and cried every man unto his god, and cast out the goods that were in the ship in to the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah gat him under the hatches and laid him down and slumbered. ⁶ And the master of the ship came to him and said unto him, "Why slumberest thou? Up! And call unto thy god, that God may think on us, that we perish not."

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."

²⁵ And his Disciples came unto him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, save us: we perish."

²³ For there stood by me this night the angel of God: whose I am, and whom I serve: ²⁴ saying, 'Fear not Paul, for thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath given unto thee all that sail with thee.' ²⁵ Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God that so it shall be even as it was told me;

⁷ who stilleth the raging of the sea, the roaring of his waves, and the madness of the people.

⁹ Thou rulest the pride of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.

¹⁵ And then they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea left raging.

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.

³⁹ And he rose up and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, "Peace and be still." And the wind allayed, and there followed a great calm: ⁴⁰ and he said unto them, "Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?" ⁴¹ And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, "What fellow is this? For both wind and sea obey him."

²³ And as they sailed, he fell asleep. And there arose a storm of wind in the lake, and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. ²⁴ And they went to him and awoke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are lost." Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the tempest of water: and they ceased, and it waxed calm. ²⁵ And he said unto them, "Where is your faith?" They feared and wondered, saying one to another, "What fellow is this? For he commandeth both the winds and water, and they obey him!"

²¹ Then would they have received him into the ship, and the ship was by and by at the land whither they went.

¹⁷ Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up until now; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

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.

¹¹ Therefore will I remember the works of the LORD, and call to mind thy wonders of old time.

¹⁴ Thou art the God that doest wonders, and hast declared thy power among the people.

² Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

⁸ And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold: which they bestowed upon Baal.

¹⁶ And the men feared the LORD exceedingly: and sacrificed sacrifice unto the LORD: and vowed vows.

⁹ But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving, and will pay that that I have vowed, that saving cometh of the LORD."

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? ⁵ Remember, O my people, what Balak the king of Moab had imagined against thee, and what answer that Balaam the son of Beor gave him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, that ye may know the loving-kindness of the LORD.

²⁰ So that his invisible things, that is to say, his eternal power and godhead, are understood and seen by the works from the creation of the world. So that they are without excuse, 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.

² For the men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, cursed speakers, disobedient to father and mother, unthankful, unholy,

³ and they sang the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the lamb, saying,

² The LORD is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation. He is my God, and I will glorify him! He is my father's God, and I will lift him up on high!

⁴⁶ The LORD liveth: and blessed be my strong helper, and praised be the God of my salvation, {TYNDALE: The LORD live, and blessed be he that is my strength: and exalted be God the strength that saveth me.}

²² I will declare thy name unto my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

²⁵ My praise is of thee in the great congregation; my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear him.

¹⁸ So will I give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people.

⁹ I will preach of thy righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O LORD, and that thou knowest. ¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.

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

¹⁶ O come hither and hearken, all ye that fear God; and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.

⁵ O magnify the LORD our God; fall down before his footstool, for he is holy.

⁹ O magnify the LORD our God, and worship him upon his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

¹ {Praise the Everlasting} I will give thanks unto the LORD with my whole heart: secretly among the faithful, and in the congregation.

⁴⁶ I will speak of thy testimonies even before kings, and will not be ashamed.

¹ O LORD, thou art my God, I will praise thee, and magnify thy name: For thou bringest marvelous things to pass, according to thine old counsels, truly and steadfastly.

⁸ Then Peter, full of the holy ghost, said unto them, "Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ⁹ if we this day are examined of the good deed done to the sick man by what means he is made whole: ¹⁰ be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, and whom God raised from death again, even by him doth this man stand here present before you whole. ¹¹ This is the stone cast aside of you builders which is set in the chief place of the corner. ¹² Neither is there salvation in any other. Nor yet also is there any other name given to men wherein we must be saved."

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As truly as the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, save as I appoint it." ² And the word of God came to him, saying, ³ "Get thee hence and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself in the brook Cherith that lieth before Jordan. ⁴ Drink of the river for I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there." ⁵ And he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith that lieth before Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens brought him bread and flesh every morning and every evening, and he drank of the brook. ⁷ And it chanced after a while that the brook dried up, because there fell no rain upon the earth.

⁵ And Ahab said unto Obadiah, "Walk through the land, unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks, to see whether any grass may be found that we may save the horses and the mules, that we destroy not the beasts."

¹⁵ Thou bringest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks; thou driest up mighty rivers.

¹⁹ And Babylon, that glory of kingdoms and beauty of the Chaldeans' honor, shall be destroyed, even as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra. ²⁰ It shall never be more inhabited; neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more; ²¹ but wild beasts shall lie there, and the houses shall be full of great owls. Ostriches shall dwell there, and apes shall dance there:

⁵ The water of the sea shall be drawn out, the Nile shall sink away, and be drunk up. ⁶ The rivers also shall be drawn out, the wells shall decrease and dry away. ⁷ Reed and rush shall fail, the grass by the waterside or upon the river bank, yea and whatsoever is sown by the waters, shall be withered, destroyed, and brought to naught. ⁸ The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water shall be faint hearted. ⁹ Such as labour upon flax and silk, shall come to poverty, and they also that weave fine works. ¹⁰ For their open works shall be even destroyed, and all they that make pounds and slues for fish shall come to naught.

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

¹⁵ I will make waste both mountain and hill, and dry up every green thing that groweth thereon. I will dry up the floods of water, and drink up the rivers.

²⁷ I say to the ground, "Be dry," and I dry up thy water floods.

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.

³ The lords shall send their servants to fetch water, and when they come to the wells, they shall find no water, but shall carry their vessels home empty. They shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall cover their heads.

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

²⁰ Yea, the wild beasts cry also unto thee: for the water rivers are dried up, and the fire hath consumed the pastures of the wilderness.

⁷ When there were but three months unto the harvest, I withheld the rain from you. Yea, I rained upon one city, and not upon another; one piece of ground was moistured with rain, and the ground that I rained not upon, was dry. ⁸ Wherefore two, yea three cities came unto one, to drink water: but they were not satisfied. Yet will ye not turn unto me,' sayeth the LORD.

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.

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

¹³ Yea, he shall stretch out his hand over the north, and destroy Assyria. As for Nineveh, he shall make it desolate, dry and waste.

¹⁰ Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.

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

³ All these came together unto the vale of Siddim, which is now the salt sea.

²⁴ Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven, ²⁵ and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth.

²³ how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt, that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the overthrowing of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim: which the LORD overthrew in his wrath and anger. ²⁴ And then all nations also say, "Wherefore hath the LORD done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath?' ²⁵ And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. ²⁶ And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought. ²⁷ And therefore the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon that land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. ²⁸ And the LORD cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furiousness, and cast them into a strange land, as it is come to pass this day.'

¹³ My people's field shall bring thorns and thistles, for in every house is voluptuousness; and in the cities, willfulness. ¹⁴ The palaces also shall be broken, and the greatly occupied cities desolate. The towers and bulwarks shall be become dens forevermore, the pleasure of Mules shall be turned to pasture for sheep: ¹⁵ Unto the time that the spirit be poured upon us from above. Then shall the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the plenteous field shall be reckoned for a wood.

¹¹ As for his clay and pits, they shall not be whole. For why? It shall be occupied for salt.

¹⁶ And from thence they came to Bear, which is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, "Gather the people together, that I may give them water." ¹⁷ Then Israel sang this song: "Arise up, well! Sing thereto! The well which the rulers digged, and the captains of the people; with the help of the lawgiver, and with their staves!" ¹⁸ And from this wilderness they went to Mattanah,

¹⁶ And he said, "Thus biddeth the LORD, 'Make this brook full of ditches.' ¹⁷ For thus sayeth the LORD, 'Ye shall see neither wind nor rain, and yet this brook shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, and your beasts and your cattle also.' ¹⁸ And this is yet but a small thing in the sight of the LORD: But he will give the Moabites into your hands also. ¹⁹ And ye shall destroy all strong towns and all goodly cities, and shall fall all pleasant trees and stop all the wells of water, and mar all good plots of ground with stones." ²⁰ And in the morning, about offering time, there came such a water that way from Edom that the country was filled with water.

⁸ which turned the hard rock into a standing water, and the flint stone into a springing well.

⁶ Then shall the lame man leap as a hart and the dumb man's tongue shall give thanks. In the wilderness also, there shall wells spring, and floods of water in the desert. ⁷ The dry ground shall turn to rivers, and the thirsty to springs of water. Whereas dragons dwelt afore, there shall grow sweet flowers and green rushes.

¹⁷ When the thirsty and poor seek water, and find none, and when their tongue is dry of thirst: I give it them, sayeth the LORD. I, the God of Israel, forsake them not. ¹⁸ I bring forth floods in the hills, and wells in the plain fields. I turn the wilderness to rivers, and the dry land to conduits of water. ¹⁹ I plant in the waste ground trees of Cedar, Box, Mire and Olives. And in the dry I set Fir trees, Elms, and Hawthorns together.

³ For I shall pour water upon the dry ground, and rivers upon the thirsty. I shall pour my spirit upon thy seed, and mine increase upon thy stock. ⁴ They shall grow together, like as the grass, and as the Willows by the waterside. ⁵ One will say, "I am the LORD's." Another will call under the name of Jacob. The third shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and give himself under the name of Israel.

⁶ And he said unto me, "Hast thou seen this, O thou son of man?" And with that, he brought me to the river bank again. ⁷ Now when I came there, there stood many trees upon either side of the riverbank. ⁸ Then said he unto me, "This water that floweth out toward the East, and runneth down into the plain field, cometh into the sea: and from the sea it runneth out, and maketh the waters whole. ⁹ Yea, all that live and move, whereunto this river cometh, shall recover. And where this water cometh, there shall be many fish; For all that cometh to this water, shall be lusty and whole. ¹⁰ By this river shall the fishers stand from Engedi unto Eneglaim, and there spread out their nets: for there shall be great heaps of fish, like as in the main sea. ¹¹ As for his clay and pits, they shall not be whole. For why? It shall be occupied for salt. ¹² By this river upon both the sides of the shore, there shall grow all manner of fruitful trees, whose leaves shall not fall off, neither shall their fruit perish: but ever be ripe at their months, for their water runneth out of the Sanctuary. His fruit is good to eat, and his leaf profitable for medicine.

⁷ He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to the city where they dwelt.

²⁶ and hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth; and hath assigned before: how long time, and also the ends of their inhabitation.

¹² And Isaac sowed in the land, and found in the same year a hundred bushels; for the LORD blessed him.

⁹ Thou visitest the earth, thou waterest it, and makest it very plenteous. The river of God is full of waters; thou preparest man his corn, and thus thou providest for the earth. ¹⁰ Thou waterest her furrows, thou breakest the hard clots thereof, thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. ¹¹ Thou crownest the year with thy good, and thy footsteps drop fatness. ¹² They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness; and the little hills shall rejoice on every side. ¹³ The folds shall be full of sheep; the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing.

³⁰ I will give thee also this token, O Hezekiah: this year shalt thou eat that is kept in store, and the next year such as groweth of himself, and in the third year ye shall sow and reap, yea ye shall plant vineyards, and enjoy the fruits thereof.

²¹ They shall build houses, and dwell in them: they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

⁵ Build you houses to dwell therein; plant you gardens, that ye may enjoy the fruits thereof;

⁵ Thou shalt plant vines again upon the hills of Samaria, and the grape gathers shall plant and sing.

²⁶ They shall dwell safely therein, build houses, and plant vineyards. Yea, safely shall they dwell therein, when I have punished all those that despise them round about: and then shall they know that I am the LORD their God.

¹⁰ The field shall be wasted, the land shall be in a miserable cause: for the corn shall be destroyed, the sweet wine shall come to confusion, and the oil utterly desolate. ¹¹ The husbandmen and the wine gardeners shall look piteously, and make lamentation for the wheat, wine and barley; and because the harvest upon the field is so clean destroyed. ¹² The grape gatherers shall make great moan, when the vineyard and fig trees be so utterly wasted. Yea all the pomegranates, palm trees, apple trees, and the other trees of the field shall wither away. Thus the merry cheer of the children of men shall come to confusion.

¹³ "Behold, the days will come," saith the LORD, "that the earer shall overtake the reaper, and treader of grapes the sower of seed. And the mountains shall drop sweetness, and the hills shall be earable. ¹⁴ And I will turn the captivity of my people Israel: and they shall build the cities that are fallen in decay, and shall inhabit them, and shall plant vines and drink wine, and shall make gardens and eat the fruit of them. ¹⁵ And I will plant them their own land, and they shall not be any more plucked out of their land which I have given them," saith the LORD thy God.

⁵ Consider now your own ways in your hearts, sayeth the LORD of Hosts. ⁶ Ye sow much, but ye bring little in; Ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled; ye deck yourselves, but ye are not warm; and he that earneth any wage, putteth it in a broken purse.

¹⁰ Wherefore the heaven is forbidden to give you any dew, and the earth is forbidden to give you increase. ¹¹ I have called for a drought, both upon the land and upon the mountains, upon corn, upon wine, and upon oil, upon everything that the ground bringeth forth, upon men and upon cattle, yea and upon all handy labour."

¹⁶ that when ye came to a corn heap of twenty bushels, there were scarce ten: and that when ye came to the wine press for to pour out fifty pots of wine, there were scarce twenty. ¹⁷ For I smote you with heat, blasting and hailstones in all the labors of your hands: yet was there none of you, that would turn unto me, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁸ Consider then from this day forth and afore, namely, from the twenty fourth day of the ninth month, unto the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid: Mark it well, ¹⁹ is not the seed yet in the barn? Have not the vines, the fig trees, the pomegranates and the olive trees been yet unfruitful? But from this day forth, I shall make them to prosper."

¹² but they shall be a seed of peace. The vineyard shall give her fruit, the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew: and I shall cause the remnant of this people, to have all these in possession.

¹⁷ Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he showed his benefits, in giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

⁷ So then, neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth: but God which gave the increase.

¹⁰ He that findeth the sower seed, shall minister bread for food, and shall multiply your seed, and increase the fruits of your righteousness — that on all parts

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth.

² And I will make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that thou mayst be a blessing.

¹⁶ For I will bless her and give thee a son of her; and will bless her so that people, yea and kings of people, shall spring of her."

²⁰ And as concerning Ishmael also, I have heard thy request: lo, I will bless him and increase him, and multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.

⁴³ And the man became exceeding rich and had many sheep, maidservants, menservants, camels and asses.

⁹ Thus hath God taken away your father's cattle and given them me.

⁷ the children of Israel grew, increased, multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land was full of them.

³ behold, the hand of the LORD shall be upon thy cattle which thou hast in the field, upon horses, asses, camels, oxen, and sheep, with a mighty great pestilence. ⁴ But the LORD shall make a division between the beasts of the Israelites, and the beasts of the Egyptians: so that there shall nothing die of all that pertaineth to the children of Israel.'" ⁵ And the LORD appointed a time saying, "Tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land." ⁶ And the LORD did the thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. ⁷ And Pharaoh sent to wete: but there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. Notwithstanding, the heart of Pharaoh hardened, and he would not let the people go.

³⁸ And much common people went also with them, and sheep, and oxen, and cattle exceeding much.

¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all nations; there shall be neither man nor woman unfruitful among you, nor anything unfruitful among your cattle.

⁴ blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle, the fruit of thine oxen, and thy flocks of sheep;

¹¹ And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

⁹ And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in all the works of thine hand and in the fruit of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle and fruit of thy land and in riches. For the LORD will turn again and rejoice over thee to do thee good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

¹ {A song of the stairs} Blessed are all they that fear the LORD, and walk in his ways. ² For thou shalt eat the labours of thine own hands; O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be. ³ Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table. ⁴ Lo, thus shall the man be blessed, that feareth the LORD. ⁵ The LORD shall so bless thee out of Zion, that thou shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long. ⁶ Yea, that thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

¹³ that our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store; that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets; ¹⁴ that our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no decay, no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets.

²² The blessing of the LORD, maketh rich men; as for careful travail, it doth nothing thereto.

¹⁹ And out of them shall go thanksgiving, and the voice of joy. I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish: I shall endue them with honour, and no man shall subdue them.

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.

¹¹ There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet five years of dearth, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.'

¹³ And the Egyptians held the children of Israel in bondage without mercy, ¹⁴ and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.

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.

²⁰ But she said unto them, "Call me not Naomi: call me Mara, for the Almighty hath made me very bitter. ²¹ I went out full: but the LORD hath brought me home empty. Why should ye then call me Naomi: seeing the LORD hath humbled me, and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity?"

⁵ They that were full, have hired out themselves for bread, and they that were hungry cease so to be: insomuch that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble. ⁶ The LORD killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to hell and fetcheth up again. ⁷ The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; bringeth low, and heaveth up on high.

⁸ And it fell on a day, that Elisha came to Shunem, where was a rich woman that took him in for to eat bread. And as oft as he came that way, he turned in thither to eat bread.

³ And at the seven years' end, when the woman was come again out of the land of the Philistines she went out to speak to the king for her house and for her land.

³² In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short, for Hazael slew them in all the coasts of Israel,

⁷ But there were left of the people, to Jehoahaz, but fifty horsemen and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen — for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like threshed chaff.

²² And Hazael oppressed Israel, all the days of Jehoahaz.

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.

⁵ And in those days there shall be no peace to them that go out and in; But great vexation upon the inhabiters of all lands. ⁶ For one nation shall destroy another, and one city another: for God will trounce them with all adversity.

¹⁰ Hast thou not preserved him, his house, and all his substance on every side? Hast thou not blessed the work of his hands? Is not his possession increased in the land? ¹¹ But lay thine hand upon him a little, touch once all that he hath, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face." ¹² And the LORD said unto Satan, "Lo, all that he hath, be in thy power: only upon himself see that thou lay not thine hand." Then went Satan forth from the LORD. ¹³ Now upon a certain day when his sons and daughters were eating, and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, ¹⁴ there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them, ¹⁵ the Sabeans came in violently, and took them all away: yea, they have slain thy servants with the sword, and I only ran my way, to tell thee." ¹⁶ And while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The fire of God is fallen from heaven, it hath consumed, and burnt up all thy sheep and servants: and I only ran my way, to tell thee." ¹⁷ In the mean season while he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three armies, and fell upon thy camels, which they have carried away: yea, and slain thy servants with the sword, and I only am gotten away, to tell thee."

⁶ And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong. ⁷ But as soon as thou didst turn thy face from me, I was troubled.

³³ "For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon hath been in her time like as a threshing floor, but shortly shall her harvest come. ³⁴ 'Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an empty vessel. He swallowed me up like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates: he hath cast me out.

³ And the river shall scrale with frogs, and they shall come up and go into thine house and into thy chamber where thou sleepest and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and upon thy victuals which thou hast in store.

¹⁷ And they did so. And Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth, and it turned to lice both in man and beast, so that all the dust of the land turned to lice, throughout all the land of Egypt.

²⁴ And the LORD did even so; and there came noisome flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses and into all the land of Egypt: so that the land was marred with flies.

²⁴ And when they had brought out those kings unto Joshua: Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war, which came with him, "Come near and put your feet upon the necks of these kings." And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them. ²⁵ And Joshua said unto them, "Fear not, nor dread: But be strong and pluck up your hearts, for so shall the LORD serve all your enemies against which ye fight." ²⁶ And then Joshua smote them and slew them and hanged them on five trees till evening.

⁶ But Adonibezek fled, and they followed after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. ⁷ Then Adonibezek said, "Three score and ten kings having their thumbs and great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table wherefore as I have done so God hath done to me again." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

²¹ Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the tent, and a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail thorough the temples of his head into the ground, as he slumbered being weary: And so he died.

⁹ And when they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was in the city with a mighty great plague, and he smote the men of the city both small and great: and they were smitten in their secret places with the hemorrhoids.

⁴ Then said they, "What shall be the trespass offering which we shall reward him with?" And they answered, "Five golden arses with hemorrhoids and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For it was one manner of plague that was on you all, and on your lords too.

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

³⁵ And when they came to bury her, they found no more of her, than the skull and the two feet and the two hands. ³⁶ And they came again and told him. And he said, "It is the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'In the field of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel, ³⁷ and the carcass of Jezebel shall be dung upon the earth, in the field of Jezreel, that men shall not say, this is Jezebel.'"

²¹ He poureth out confusion upon princes, and comforteth them that have been oppressed.

⁶⁶ He smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetual shame.

⁸ Who hath devised such things upon Tyre the crown of all cities, whose merchants and Captains were the highest and principal of the world? ⁹ Even the LORD of Hosts hath devised it, that he may put down all pomp, and minish all the Glory of the world.

¹⁵ Be obedient, give ear, take no disdain at it, for it is the LORD himself that speaketh! ¹⁶ Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death. ¹⁷ But if ye will not hear me, that give you secret warning, I will mourn from my whole heart for your stubbornness. Piteously will I weep, and the tears shall gush out of mine eyes. For the LORD's flock shall be carried away captive. ¹⁸ Tell the king and the rulers, "Humble yourselves, set you down low, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head."

³³ The very same hour was this matter fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: so that he was cast out of men's company, and ate grass like an ox; His body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were as great as Eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws.

⁵ In the very same hour there appeared fingers, as it had been of a man's hand writing, right over against the candlestick upon the plain wall in the king's palace: and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then changed the king his countenance, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his body shook, and his knees smote one against another.

¹⁸ O king, God the highest gave unto Nebuchadnezzar, thy father, the dignity of a king, with worship and honor: ¹⁹ So that all people, kindreds and tongues stood in awe and fear of him, by reason of the high estate that he had sent him. For why? He slew whom he would; he smote, whom it pleased him. Again: whom he would, he set up; and whom he list, he put down. ²⁰ But because his heart was so proud, and his stomach set so fast unto wilfulness: he was deposed from his kingly throne, and his majesty was taken from him. ²¹ He was shot out from among men, his heart was like a beast's heart, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: he was fain to eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew, that the highest had power upon the kingdoms of men, and setteth over them, whom he list. ²² And thou, his son, O Belshazzar, for all this, hast not submitted thine heart, though thou knewest all these things: ²³ but hast magnified thyself above the LORD of heaven, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee: that thou, and thy lords, with thy queen and concubines, might drink wine thereout: and hast praised the Idols of silver and gold, copper and iron, of wood and stone. As for the God in whose hand consisteth thy breath and all thy ways: thou hast not loved him. ²⁴ Therefore is the palm of this hand sent hither from him, to token up this writing. ²⁵ And this is the scripture that is written up, 'Mene, Tekel, Phares.' ²⁶ Now the interpretation of the thing is this: Mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. ²⁷ Tekel, thou art weighed in the balance, and art found wanting: ²⁸ Phares, thy kingdom is dealt in parts, and given to the Medes and Persians." ²⁹ Then commanded Belshazzar to clothe Daniel with purple, to hang a chain of gold about his neck, and to make a proclamation concerning him: that he should be the ruler of the third part of his kingdom. ³⁰ The very same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain,

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

¹⁸ that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and of high captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all free men and bond men, and of small and great."

⁵ And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, ⁶ "Hear us, lord, thou art a prince of God among us. In the chiefest of our sepulchers bury thy dead: None of us shall forbid thee his sepulchre, that thou shouldest not bury thy dead therein." ⁷ Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of the land the children of Heth.

¹¹ And Israel said unto Joseph, "I had not thought to have seen thy face, and yet lo, God hath showed it me and also thy seed."

¹⁴ And the women said unto Naomi, "Blessed be the LORD, the which hath not left thee without a heir this day that shall have a name in Israel, ¹⁵ and that shall bring thy life again and cherish thine old age. For thy daughter-in-law which loveth thee hath borne him that is better to thee than seven sons." ¹⁶ And Naomi took the child and laid it in her lap, and became nurse unto it. ¹⁷ And her neighbours gave it a name saying, "There is a child borne to Naomi, and called it Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

⁸ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.

²¹ And the LORD visited Hannah for that she conceived and bare three sons and two daughters. But the boy Samuel grew, dwelling still with the LORD.

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

¹¹ which setteth up them of low degree, and sendeth prosperity to those that are in heaviness;

⁷ Insomuch, that wherein soever thou hadst little afore, thou shouldest now have great abundance.

¹⁵ Then mightest thou lift up thy face without shame! Then shouldest thou be sure, and have no need to fear. ¹⁶ Then shouldest thou forget thy misery, and think no more upon it, than upon the waters that run by. ¹⁷ Then should the residue of thy life be as clear as the noon day, and spring forth as the morning. ¹⁸ Then mightest thou have comfort, in the hope that thou hast; and sleep quietly, when thou art buried. ¹⁹ Then shouldest thou take thy rest, and no man to make thee afraid, yea many one should set much by thee.

¹¹ They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance.

¹⁶ After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.

⁶ Yea, that thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

⁶ Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

²⁰ Then the child whom the barren shall bring forth unto thee, shall say in thine ear, "This place is too narrow, sit nigh together, that I may have room." ²¹ Then shalt thou think by thyself, "Who hath begotten me these? Seeing I am barren and alone, a captive and an outcast? And who hath nourished them up for me? I am desolate and alone, but from whence come these?" ²² And therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will stretch out mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my token to the people. They shall bring thy sons in their laps, and carry thy daughters unto thee upon their shoulders.

¹¹ Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have known what end the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitiful, and merciful.

⁷ And among all the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, nor yet man or beast: that ye may know, how the LORD putteth a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.'

¹⁵ And so he delivereth the poor from the sword, from the threatenings of the ungodly, and from the hand of the cruel; ¹⁶ that the poor may have hope, and that the mouth of the oppressor may be stopped.

¹⁹ For with joy shall the godly, and with gladness shall the innocent,

⁶ The righteous also shall see this, and fear, and shall laugh him to scorn.

¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly. ¹¹ So that men shall say, "Verily there is a reward for the righteous! Doubtless, there is a God that judgeth the earth!"

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; all they that swear by him shall be commended, for the mouth of liars shall be stopped.

¹⁰ The ungodly shall see it, and it shall grieve him; he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away, and the desire of the ungodly shall perish.

¹¹ The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life; but the mouth of the ungodly is past shame, and presumptuous.

¹⁰ Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her. Be joyful with her, all ye that mourned for her. ¹¹ For ye shall suck comfort out of her breasts, and be satisfied. Ye shall taste, and have delight in the plenteousness of her power.

¹⁴ And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like a herb. Thus shall the hand of the LORD be known among his servants, and his indignation among his enemies.

¹⁹ Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,

⁵ For they regard not in their mind the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands: therefore shall he break them down, and not build them up.

²³ Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I show the salvation of God."

⁹ And all men that see it shall say, "This hath God done!" For they shall perceive that it is his work.

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

¹² What man is so wise, as to understand this? Or to whom hath the LORD spoken by mouth, that he may show this, and say, "O thou land, why perishest thou so? Wherefore art thou so burnt up, and like a wilderness that no man goeth through?"

²⁴ But who so will rejoice, let him rejoice in this: that he understandeth, and knoweth me. For I am the LORD, which do mercy, equity and righteousness upon the earth. Therefore have I pleasure in such things, sayeth the LORD."

¹² Then said he unto me, "Fear not, Daniel: for why? Since the first day that thou set thine heart to understand, and didst chasten thyself before thy God: thy words have been heard. And I had come unto thee, when thou begannest to speak,

⁹ Who is wise to understand these things and hath wit to perceive them? For the ways of the LORD are straight, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the wicked shall tumble in them.

¹⁸ might be able to comprehend with all saints, what is that breadth and length, depth and height: ¹⁹ and to know what is the love of Christ, which love passeth knowledge: that ye might be fulfilled with all manner of fullness which cometh of God.