Psalms 78 Cross References - MSTC

¹ {An Instruction of Asaph} Hear my law, O my people; incline your ears unto the words of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world; ³ which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us, 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. ⁵ He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, ⁶ that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same; ⁷ that they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments. ⁸ And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God. ⁹ Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle: ¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law. ¹¹ They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them. ¹² Marvelous things did he in the sight of our forefathers; in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea, and let them go through it; and made the waters to stand in a heap. ¹⁴ In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night through with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth. ¹⁶ He brought waters out of the stony rock, so that it gushed out like the rivers. ¹⁷ Yet for all this they sinned more against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness. ¹⁸ They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust. ¹⁹ For they spake against God, and said, "Yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he? ²⁰ Lo, he smote the stony rock, that the watery streams gushed out, and the streams flowed withal: but how can he give bread and provide flesh for his people?" ²¹ When the LORD heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in Jacob, and heavy displeasure against Israel, ²² because they believed not in God, and put not their trust in his help. ²³ So he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven. ²⁴ He rained down manna upon them for to eat, and gave them bread from heaven. ²⁵ Then ate they angels' food, for he sent them meat enough. ²⁶ He caused the east wind to blow under the heaven, and through his power he brought in the southwest wind. ²⁷ He rained down manna upon them as thick as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. ²⁸ He let it fall among their tents, even round about their habitations. ²⁹ So they ate, and were filled, for he gave them their own desire. ³⁰ And they were not disappointed of their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, ³¹ the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. ³² But for all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his wondrous works. ³³ Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone. 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. ³⁶ Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their mouths, and dissembled with him in their tongues. ³⁷ For their heart was not whole with him, neither continued they steadfast in his covenant. ³⁸ But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise. ³⁹ For he considered that they were but flesh; even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. ⁴⁰ O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert? ⁴¹ They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel. ⁴² They thought not of his hand, and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy; ⁴³ how he had wrought his miracles in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: ⁴⁴ How he turned their waters into blood, so that they might not drink of the rivers; ⁴⁵ How he sent lice among them, to eat them up, and frogs to destroy them; ⁴⁶ How he gave their fruits unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the grasshopper; ⁴⁷ How he beat down their vineyards with hail stones, and their mulberry trees with the frost; ⁴⁸ How he smote their cattle also with hail stones, and their flocks with hot thunderbolts; ⁴⁹ How he sent upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble, and sent evil angels among them; ⁵⁰ When he made a way to his fearful indignation, and spared not their souls from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; ⁵¹ When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. ⁵² But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, and carried them in the wilderness like a flock. ⁵³ He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea. ⁵⁴ He carried them unto the borders of his Sanctuary: even to this mountain, which he purchased with his righthand. ⁵⁵ He cast out the heathen before them, caused their land to be divided among them for a heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. ⁵⁶ Yet, for all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant: ⁵⁷ But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow. ⁵⁸ And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images. ⁵⁹ When God heard this, he was wroth, and took sore displeasure at Israel, ⁶⁰ so that he forsook the Tabernacle in Shiloh, even the tent that he had pitched among men. ⁶¹ He delivered their power into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand. ⁶² He gave his people over unto the sword, for he was wroth with his inheritance. ⁶³ The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given in marriage. ⁶⁴ Their priests were slain with the sword, and there were no widows to made lamentation. ⁶⁵ So the LORD awakened as one out of sleep, and like a giant refreshed with wine. ⁶⁶ He smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetual shame. ⁶⁷ He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, ⁶⁸ but chose the tribe of Judah, even the hill of Zion which he loved. ⁶⁹ And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure. ⁷⁰ He chose David also his servant, and took him away from the sheepfolds. ⁷¹ As he was following the ewes great with young, he took him, that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. ⁷² So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, and ruled them with all the diligence of his power.

³ Hear kings and hearken lords, I will sing, and give praise unto the LORD God, of Israel.

¹ And the spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Obed. ² And he went out against Asa and said to him, "Hear me Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you, while ye be with him, and if ye shall seek him, he will be found of you: but and if ye shall forsake him, he will forsake you. ³ There will come many days in Israel, in which there shall be no true God — nor priest that teacheth, nor any law. ⁴ And in their tribulation they shall turn unto the LORD God of Israel and shall seek him, and he shall be found of them. 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. ⁷ But pluck you up your hearts and let not your hands faint, for your works shall be rewarded." ⁸ When Asa heard those words and the prophecy of Azariah the son of Obed the Prophet, he took courage and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he won in mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD that was before the porch of the LORD. ⁹ And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon. For there fell many to him out of Israel, when they saw that God was with him. ¹⁰ And they assembled at Jerusalem the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. ¹¹ And they offered unto the LORD that same time of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. ¹² And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their hearts and all their souls: ¹³ so that all that sought not the LORD God of Israel, should die for it, whether he were small or great, man or woman. ¹⁴ And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice and shouting and with trumpets and horns. ¹⁵ And all Judah rejoiced in the oath, for they had sworn with all their hearts, and sought him with all their lust, and he was found of them. And the LORD gave them rest round about. ¹⁶ And thereto king Asa put Maacah his mother out of authority, because she had made an idol in a grove: and brake down her idol and stamped it and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of the children of Korah} O Hear this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world, ² high and low, rich and poor, one with another. ³ My mouth shall speak of wisdom, and my heart shall muse of understanding.

⁷ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak; I myself will testify against thee, O Israel; for I am God, even thy God.

⁴ Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and clear when thou shalt judge.

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

⁴ "It is you, O ye men," sayeth she, "whom I call! Unto you, O ye children of men, lift I up my voice. ⁵ Take heed unto knowledge, O ye ignorant; be wise in heart, O ye fools. ⁶ Give ear, for I will speak of great matters, and open my lips to tell things that be right.

⁴ Hearken unto me, my people; and turn your ears to me, my folk. There shall a law go out from me, and my judgment will I establish to be a light unto nations.

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.

⁹ Whosoever hath ears to hear, let him hear."

⁴ I will incline mine ear to the parable, and show my dark speech upon the harp.

⁶ and he that is endued with understanding shall obtain wit to perceive a parable, and the interpretation thereof; the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same.

¹¹ He answered, and said unto them, "It is given unto you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ¹² For whosoever hath, to him shall be given: and he shall have abundance. But whosoever hath not: from him shall be taken away even that same that he hath. ¹³ Therefore speak I to them in similitudes: For though they see, they see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither understand.

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus unto the people by similitudes, and with out similitudes spake he nothing to them, ³⁵ to fulfill that which was spoken by the prophet saying, "I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world."

³⁴ And without similitude spake he nothing unto them. But when they were apart, he expounded all things to his disciples.

²⁶ And when your children ask you, 'What manner of service is this ye do?' ²⁷ Ye shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, which passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, as he smote the Egyptians and saved our houses.'" Then the people bowed themselves and worshipped.

⁸ And thou shalt show thy son at that time, saying, 'This is done, because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came out of Egypt.'

¹⁴ And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' Thou shalt say unto him, 'With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹⁵ And when Pharaoh was loath to let us go, the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: as well the firstborn of men as of beasts. And therefore I sacrifice unto the LORD all the males that open the matrix, but all the firstborn of my children I must redeem.'

¹ {To the Chanter, an instruction of the sons of Korah} We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old.

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

²⁶ And when your children ask you, 'What manner of service is this ye do?'

¹⁴ And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' Thou shalt say unto him, 'With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

⁹ Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons.

⁷ And thou shalt whet them on thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou walkest by the way; and when thou liest down and when thou risest up.

¹⁹ and teach them your children: so that thou talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up:

⁶ that this may be a sign among you. And when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What mean ye with these stones?' ⁷ Then say unto them, 'How that the water of Jordan divided at the presence of the ark of the covenant of the LORD: even while it went over Jordan, the water of Jordan divided.' And these stones shall be a memorial unto the children of Israel forever."

²¹ And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask you in time to come saying, 'What mean these stones?' ²² Show your children and say, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.' ²³ For the LORD your God dried up the water of Jordan before you, until ye were over, as the LORD your God did unto the reed sea, which he dried up before us till we were over; ²⁴ that all the people of the world may know the hand of the LORD how mighty it is, and that ye might fear the LORD your God forever."

¹⁸ which wise men have told, and hath not been hid from their fathers:

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

¹ Why standest thou so far off, O LORD, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble? ² While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined! ³ For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. ⁴ The ungodly is so proud and full of indignation, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts. ⁵ His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. Therefore defieth he all his enemies.

⁷ that I may show the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.

¹⁷ Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up until now; therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. ¹⁸ Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

⁴ One generation shall praise thy works unto another, and declare thy power. ⁵ As for me, I will be talking of thy worship, thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous works; ⁶ so that men shall speak of the might of thy marvelous acts, and tell of thy greatness.

⁷ 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. ⁸ For he said, "These no doubt will be my people, and no shrinking children," and so he was their Saviour. ⁹ In their troubles he forsook them not, but the angel that went forth from his presence delivered them. Of very love and kindness that he had unto them, he redeemed them: He hath born them, and carried them up ever since the world began. ¹⁰ But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself. ¹¹ Yet remembered he the old time of Moses and his people: How he brought them from the water of the sea, as a shepherd doth with his sheep; how he had given his holy spirit among them; ¹² how he had led Moses by the righthand with his glorious arm; how he had divided the water before them, whereby he gat himself an everlasting name; ¹³ how he led them in the deep, as a horse is led in the plain, that they should not stumble. ¹⁴ The spirit of the LORD led them as a tame beast goeth in the field. Thus, O God, hast thou led thy people, to make thyself a glorious name withal. ¹⁵ Look down then from heaven, and behold the dwelling place of thy Sanctuary and thy glory. How is it that thy jealousy, thy strength, the multitude of thy mercies and thy loving-kindness, will not be entreated of us? ¹⁶ Yet art thou our father: For Abraham knoweth us not, neither is Israel acquainted with us. But thou LORD art our father and redeemer, and thy name is everlasting. ¹⁷ O LORD wherefore hast thou led us out of thy way? Wherefore hast thou hardened our hearts, that we fear thee not? Be at one with us again, for thy servants' sake that are of the generation of thine heritage. ¹⁸ Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in: ¹⁹ And we are become even as we were from the beginning: but thou art not their LORD, for they have not called upon thy name.

³ Tell your children of it, and let them show it to their children, and so they - to certify their posterity thereof.

¹⁹ For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

¹⁶ And thou shalt put in the ark, the witness which I shall give thee.

²¹ And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the witness which I will give thee.

³ and put therein the ark of witness, and cover the ark with the veil,

²⁰ And he took and put the testimony in the ark, and set the staves to the ark and put the mercy seat on high upon the ark,

⁴⁵ and these are the witness, ordinances and statutes which Moses told the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt,

⁷ The law of the LORD is an undefiled law, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, and giveth wisdom unto simple.

³ which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us, 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.

⁵ This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.

¹⁵² As concerning thy testimonies, I have known ever since the beginning that thou hast grounded them for ever.

¹⁹ He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel.

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

¹⁹ but the living, yea the living acknowledge thee, like as I do this day. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulness.

² Surely, very much. First: unto them was committed the word of God.

⁴ And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

⁹ If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God, that God hath born of his son. ¹⁰ He that believeth in the son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God, maketh him a liar, because he doth not believe the witness that God hath testified of his son. ¹¹ And this is the witness: how that God hath given unto us eternal life, and this life is in his son. ¹² He that hath the son, hath life: and he that hath not the son of God, hath not life.

¹⁰ The day that I stood before the LORD your God in Horeb — when he said unto me, 'Gather me the people together, that I may make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me as long as they live upon the earth and that they may teach their children' -

²⁴ And have not rather done it for fear of this: lest in time to come your children should say unto ours, 'What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?' ²⁵ Saying, 'That the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Ruben and of Gad: ye have no part therefore in the LORD.' And so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.

²⁸ how that these days are not to be forgotten, but to be kept of the children's children among all kindreds in all lands and cities. They are the days of Purim, which are not to be overslipped among the Jews, and the memorial of them ought not to perish from their seed.

³¹ They shall come, and declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, whom the LORD hath made.

¹³ Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that it may be told them that come after.

¹⁸ Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

¹⁶ Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory.

¹⁸ This shall be written for those that come after, that the people which shall be born may praise the LORD.

⁴ One generation shall praise thy works unto another, and declare thy power.

²⁴ Therefore see that thou observe this thing, that it be an ordinance to thee, and thy sons forever. ²⁵ And when ye be come into the land which the LORD will give you according as he hath promised, see that ye keep this service.

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.

¹² Then beware, lest thou forget the LORD which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.

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

² And think on all the ways which the LORD thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no.

¹¹ But beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not keep his commandments, laws and ordinances which I command thee this day:

²⁷ And the Jews set it up, and took it upon them and their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, that they would not miss to observe these two days yearly, according as they were written and appointed; ²⁸ how that these days are not to be forgotten, but to be kept of the children's children among all kindreds in all lands and cities. They are the days of Purim, which are not to be overslipped among the Jews, and the memorial of them ought not to perish from their seed.

⁴ Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the LORD, and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies.

⁵ Nevertheless, my soul abideth only upon God, for he is my God.

¹⁰ At the last, I came to this point, that I thought, "O why art thou so foolish? the righthand of the most highest can change all!" ¹¹ Therefore will I remember the works of the LORD, and call to mind thy wonders of old time. ¹² I will speak of all thy works, and my talking shall be of thy doings.

¹⁴ Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him up out of all danger, for he hath known my name.

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

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

⁶ My soul fleeth unto the LORD before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch. ⁷ O Israel, trust in the LORD; for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

⁵ Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the LORD his God,

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

²¹ He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me: and he shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him." ²² Judas said unto him — not Judas Iscariot - "Lord what is the cause that thou wilt show thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, and said unto him, "If a man love me and will keep my sayings, my father also will love him, and we will come unto him, and will dwell with him. ²⁴ He that loveth me not, keepeth not my sayings. And the words which ye hear are not mine, but the father's, which sent me.

²⁴ and thanked and brake, and said, "Take ye, and eat ye. This is my body which is broken for you. This do ye in the remembrance of me."

²¹ Which, by his means, have believed on God that raised him from death, and glorified him, that your faith and hope might be in God.

²² and whatsoever we ask, that we shall receive of him: because we keep his commandments, and do those things which are pleasing in his sight. ²³ And this is his commandment, that we believe on the name of his son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave commandment. ²⁴ And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And thereby we know that there dwelleth in us of his spirit, which he gave us.

³ This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous.

¹² Here is the patience of saints. Here are they that keep the commandments and the faith of Jesus.

⁹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, I see this people, that it is a stiffnecked people,

³ that thou mayest go in to a land that floweth with milk and honey. But I will not go among you myself, for ye are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you by the way."

⁵ And the LORD spake unto Moses, "Say unto the children of Israel, 'Ye are a stiffnecked people: I must come once suddenly upon you, and make an end of you. But now put your goodly raiment from you, that I may wete what to do unto you.'"

⁹ and said, "If I have found grace in thy sight O Lord, then let my Lord go with us — for it is a stubborn people. And have mercy upon our wickedness and our sin, and let us be thine inheritance."

⁴ But ye that clave unto the LORD your God are alive, every one of you, this day.

⁶ Understand therefore that it is not for thy righteousness' sake, that the LORD thy God doth give thee this good land to possess it, for thou art a stiff-necked people. ⁷ Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedest the LORD thy God in the wilderness: for since the day that thou camest out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place, ye have rebelled against the LORD.

¹³ Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, 'I see this people how that it is a stiff-necked people;

²⁴ Thus ye have been disobedient unto the LORD, since the day that I knew you.

²⁷ For I know thy stubbornness and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been disobedient unto the LORD: and how much more after my death.

⁸ Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me discouraged the hearts of the people. But I followed the LORD my God even unto the end. ⁹ And Moses sware the same season saying, 'The land whereon thy feet have trodden, shall be thine inheritance and thy children forever because thou hast followed the LORD my God continually.'

¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the necks of their fathers that did not believe the LORD their God.

¹⁴ And he did evil: for he prepared not his heart to seek the LORD.

³ Neverthelater, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God."

³³ Howbeit, they put not down the hill altars, neither did the people yet prepare their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

⁷ And be ye not like your fathers and your brethren which trespassed against the LORD of your fathers, which therefore gave them up that they are wasted, as ye see.

¹⁹ "The good LORD be merciful to all that set their hearts to seek the God that is the LORD God of their fathers, though they do it not according to the cleanness of the holy place."

¹³ "If thou hadst now a right heart, and liftest up thine hands toward him;

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.

³⁷ For their heart was not whole with him, neither continued they steadfast in his covenant.

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.

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

³ And he said, "Behold, thou son of man: I will send thee to the children of Israel, to those renegades and obstinate people - for they have taken part against me, and are run away from me: both they and their forefathers unto this day. ⁴ Yea, I will send thee unto a people that have rough visages and stiff stomachs: unto whom thou shalt say on this manner, 'This the LORD God himself hath spoken,' ⁵ that whether they be obedient or no - for it is a froward household - they may know yet that there hath been a Prophet among them. ⁶ "Therefore, thou son of man, fear them not; neither be afraid of their words: for they shall rebel against thee, and despise thee. Yea, thou shalt dwell among scorpions. But fear not their words, be not abashed at their looks: for it is a froward household. ⁷ See that thou speak my words unto them, whether they be obedient or not, for they are obstinate. ⁸ Therefore, thou son of man, obey thou all things, that I say unto thee, and be not thou stiffnecked, like as they are a stiffnecked household. Open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee."

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

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

³¹ So then: ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them, which killed the prophets. ³² Fulfill ye likewise the measure of your fathers: ³³ ye serpents and generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell?

⁵¹ "Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

²³ Which when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad: and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would continually cleave unto the Lord.

⁴¹ Then ye answered and said unto me, 'We have sinned against the LORD: we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.' And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war and were ready to go up into the hills, ⁴² the LORD said unto me, 'Say unto them: see that ye go not up and that ye fight not, for I am not among you: lest ye be plagued before your enemies.' ⁴³ And when I told you, ye would not hear: but disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hills. ⁴⁴ Then the Amorites, which dwelt in those hills, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and hewed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

¹⁶ Then the children of Joseph said again, "The hill will not be gotten of us: for all the Cananites that dwell in the low country have chariots of iron, and so have they that inhabit Bethshean, and the towns of the same, and they also that dwell in the valley of Jezreel." ¹⁷ And Joshua answered the house of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, saying, "Ye be much people and have great power and shall not therefore have one lot. ¹⁸ But the hill shall be yours, for it is a wood country and ye shall bring it to fashion, and it shall be yours even unto the ends of it, for ye shall be able to cast out the Cananites for all their iron chariots and for all they be so strong."

²⁸ And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "What is Abimelech, and what is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and Zebul is his officer? Serve such as come of Hamor the father of Shechem. For what reason is it that we should serve him?

³⁸ Then said Zebul unto him, "Where is now thy mouth that said, 'What fellow is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' These are the people that thou so despisest. Go out now a fellowship and fight with them." ³⁹ And Gaal went out before the citizens of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. ⁴⁰ And Abimelech chased him that he fled before him and many were overthrown and slain, even until they came unto the entering of the gate.

³⁹ And the men of Israel fled in the battle. And Benjamin began to smite dead of the children of Israel, about a thirty persons, for they supposed that the other had been put to the worse before them, as in the first battle.

¹⁰ And the Philistines fought, and Israel was put to the worse and fled, every man into his tent. And there was a mighty great slaughter, so that there were overthrown of Israel, thirty thousand footmen.

¹ And as the Philistines fought against Israel, the men of Israel fled away from the Philistines, and fell down dead in mount Gilboa.

² weaponed with bows, and could handle stones, arrows and bow as well with the left hand as with the right, and were of Saul's brethren, even of the tribe of Benjamin.

⁵⁷ But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers, starting aside like a broken bow.

³³ And he said unto him, "Lord, I am ready to go with thee into prison, and to death."

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

²⁰ For when I have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that runneth with milk and honey, then they will eat and fill themselves and wax fat and turn unto strange gods and serve them and rail on me and break my covenant.

¹⁰ And even so, all that generation were put unto their fathers. And there arose another generation after them which neither knew the LORD, nor yet the works which he did unto Israel. ¹¹ And then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, ¹² and forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, even of the gods of the nations that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and angered the LORD.

¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the necks of their fathers that did not believe the LORD their God. ¹⁵ And they refused his ordinances and his covenant that he had made with their fathers, and the witness which he had witnessed to them and followed vanity and became vain, like to the heathen that were round about them, of which the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies. ²⁷ Therefore gavest thou them over into the hand of their enemies that vexed them. And in the time of their trouble they cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from heaven and through thy great mercy thou gavest them saviours, which helped them out of the hand of their enemies. ²⁸ But when they came to rest, they turned back again to do evil before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them. So they converted, and cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from heaven; and many times hast thou delivered them according to thy great mercy, ²⁹ and testified unto them, that they should turn again unto thy law. Notwithstanding, they were proud, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned in thy laws, which a man should do and live in them, and turned the shoulder away, and were stiff-necked, and would not hear.

³² not after the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the land of Egypt: which covenant they brake, wherefore I punished them sore, sayeth the LORD:

¹⁸ Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgot God that made thee.

⁷ that they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments.

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

²¹ They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt, ²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea.

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

³ Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, unto the land of Seir and the field of Edom.

¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, I have made thee Pharaoh's God, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. ² Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. ³ But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that I may multiply my miracles and my wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ And yet Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may set mine hand upon Egypt and bring out mine armies, even my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with great judgments. ⁵ And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought out the children of Israel from among them." ⁶ Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them. ⁷ And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty three when they spake unto Pharaoh. ⁸ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, ⁹ "When Pharaoh speaketh unto you and sayeth, 'Show a wonder,' then shalt thou say unto Aaron, 'Take the rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall turn to a serpent.'" ¹⁰ Then went Moses and Aaron in unto Pharaoh, and did even as the LORD had commanded. And Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it turned to a serpent. ¹¹ Then Pharaoh called for the wise men, and enchanters of Egypt did in like manner with their sorcery. ¹² And they cast down every man his rod, and they turned to serpents; but Aaron's rod ate up their rods. ¹³ And yet, for all that, Pharaoh's heart was hardened, so that he hearkened not unto them, even as the LORD had said. ¹⁴ Then said the LORD unto Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened, and he refuseth to let the people go. ¹⁵ Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning, for he will come unto the water, and stand thou upon the river's brink against he come, and the rod which turned to a serpent take in thine hand. ¹⁶ And say unto him, 'The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying: let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: but hitherto thou wouldest not hear. ¹⁷ Wherefore, thus sayeth the LORD: hereby thou shalt know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will smite with the staff that is in mine hand upon the waters that are in the river, and they shall turn to blood. ¹⁸ And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink: so that it shall grieve the Egyptians to drink of the water of the river.'" ¹⁹ And the LORD spake unto Moses, "Say unto Aaron, 'Take thy staff and stretch out thine hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, rivers, ponds and all pools of water, that they may be blood, and that there may be blood in all the land of Egypt: both in vessels of wood and also of stone.'" ²⁰ And Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD commanded. And he lift up the staff and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the river, turned into blood. ²¹ And the fish that was in the river died, and the river stank: so that the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. ²² And the enchanters of Egypt did likewise with their enchantments, so that Pharaoh's heart was hardened and did not regard them, as the LORD had said. ²³ And Pharaoh turned himself and went into his house, and set not his heart thereunto. ²⁴ And the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river. ²⁵ And it continued a week after that the LORD had smote the river.

¹ The LORD spake unto Moses, "Go unto Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: let my people go, that they may serve me. ² If thou wilt not let them go, behold: I will smite all thy land with frogs. 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. ⁴ And the frogs shall come upon thee and on thy people and upon all thy servants.'" ⁵ And the LORD spake unto Moses, "Say unto Aaron, 'Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, rivers, and ponds. And bring up frogs upon the land of Egypt.'" ⁶ And Aaron stretched his hand over the water of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷ And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorcery, and the frogs came up upon the land of Egypt. ⁸ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray ye unto the LORD that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the LORD." ⁹ And Moses said unto Pharaoh, "Appoint thou the time unto me, when I shall pray for thee and thy servants and thy people, to drive away the frogs from thee and thy house, so that they shall remain but in the river only." ¹⁰ And he said, "Tomorrow." And he said, "Even as thou hast said, that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. ¹¹ And the frogs shall depart from thee and from thine houses, and from thy servants and from thy people, and shall remain in the river only." ¹² And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the LORD upon the appointment of frogs which he had made unto Pharaoh. ¹³ And the LORD did according to the saying of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, courts and fields. ¹⁴ And they gathered them together upon heaps: so that the land stank of them. ¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them, as the LORD had said. ¹⁶ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Say unto Aaron, 'Stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may turn to lice in all the land of Egypt.'" 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. ¹⁸ And the enchanters assayed likewise with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And the lice were both upon man and beast. ¹⁹ Then said the enchanters unto Pharaoh, "It is the finger of God." Neverthelater, Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he regarded them not, as the LORD had said. ²⁰ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, for he will come unto the water: and say unto him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: let my people go, that they may serve me. ²¹ If thou wilt not let my people go, behold: I will send all manner flies both upon thee and thy servants, and thy people, and into thy houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of flies, and the ground whereon they are. ²² But I will separate the same day the land of Goshen where my people are, so that there shall no flies be there: that thou mayest know that I am the LORD upon the earth. ²³ And I will put a division between my people and thine. And even tomorrow shall this miracle be done.'" 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. ²⁵ Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, "Go and do sacrifice unto your God in the land." ²⁶ And Moses answered, "It is not mete so to do. For we must offer unto the LORD our God, that which is an abomination unto the Egyptians: behold shall we sacrifice that which is an abomination unto the Egyptians before their eyes, and shall they not stone us? ²⁷ We will therefore go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the LORD our God as he hath commanded us." ²⁸ And Pharaoh said, "I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice unto the LORD your God in the wilderness: only go not far away, and see that ye pray for me." ²⁹ And Moses said, "Behold, I will go out from thee and pray unto the LORD, and the flies shall depart from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people tomorrow. But let Pharaoh from henceforth deceive no more, that he would not let the people go to sacrifice unto the LORD." ³⁰ And Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed unto the LORD. ³¹ And the LORD did as Moses had said, and took away the flies from Pharaoh and from his servants and from his people, so that there remained not one. ³² But for all that, Pharaoh hardened his heart even then also and would not let the people go.

¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go unto Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews: send out my people that they may serve me. ² If thou wilt not let them go but wilt hold them still: 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. ⁸ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, "Take your hands full of ashes out of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it up into the air in the sight of Pharaoh, ⁹ and it shall turn to dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall make swelling sores with blains both on man and beast in all the land of Egypt." ¹⁰ And they took ashes out of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkled it up into the air: And there brake out sores with blains both in man and beast: ¹¹ so that the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, by the reason of botches on the enchanters and upon all the Egyptians. ¹² But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, that he hearkened not unto them, as the LORD had said unto Moses. ¹³ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, that they may serve me, ¹⁴ or else I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and on thy people, that you mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. ¹⁵ For now I will stretch out my hand and will smite thee and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perish from the earth. ¹⁶ Yet in very deed for this cause have I stirred thee up, for to show my power in thee, and to declare my name throughout all the world. ¹⁷ If it be so that thou stoppest my people, that thou wilt not let them go: ¹⁸ behold, tomorrow this time, I will send down a mighty great hail; even such one as was not in Egypt since it was grounded unto this time. ¹⁹ Send therefore and fetch home thy beasts and all that thou hast in the field. For upon all the men and beasts which are found in the field and not brought home, shall the hail fall, and they shall die.'" ²⁰ And as many as feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their beasts flee to house: ²¹ and they that regarded not the word of the LORD, left their servants and their beasts in the field. ²² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Stretch forth thine hand unto heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt: upon man and beast, and upon all the herbs of the field in the field of Egypt." ²³ And Moses stretched out his rod unto heaven, and the LORD thundered and hailed, so that the fire ran along upon the ground. And the LORD so hailed in the land of Egypt ²⁴ that there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so grievous that there was none such in all the land of Egypt, since people inhabited it. ²⁵ And the hail smote in the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast. And the hail smote all the herbs of the field and broke all the trees of the field: ²⁶ only in the land of Goshen where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. ²⁷ And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "I have now sinned, the LORD is righteous and I and my people are wicked. ²⁸ Pray ye unto the LORD, that the thunder of God and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and ye shall tarry no longer." ²⁹ And Moses said unto him, "As soon as I am out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD, and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail: that thou mayest know, how that the earth is the LORD's. ³⁰ But I know that thou and thy servants yet fear not the LORD God." ³¹ The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was shot up and the flax was bolled: ³² but the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were late sown. ³³ And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD, and the thunder and hail ceased, neither rained it any more upon the earth. ³⁴ When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and thunder were ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart: both he and his servants. ³⁵ So was the heart of Pharaoh hardened, that he would not let the children of Israel go, as the LORD had said by Moses.

¹ The LORD said unto Moses, "Go unto Pharaoh; nevertheless I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I might show these, my signs, amongst them, ² and that thou tell in the audience of thy son and of thy son's son, the pageants which I have played in Egypt, and the miracles which I have done among them: that ye may know how that I am the LORD." ³ Then Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews, 'How long shall it be, or thou wilt submit thyself unto me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. ⁴ If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, tomorrow will I bring grasshoppers into thy land, ⁵ and they shall cover the face of the earth that it cannot be seen. And they shall eat the residue, which remaineth unto you and escaped the hail. And they shall eat all your green trees upon the field. ⁶ And they shall fill thy houses and all thy servants' houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians; after such a manner as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the time they were upon the earth unto this day.'" And he turned himself about, and went out from Pharaoh. ⁷ And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, "How long shall this fellow thus plague us? Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God; or else wilt thou see Egypt first destroyed?" ⁸ And then Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh, and he said unto them, "Go and serve the LORD your God, but who are they that shall go?" ⁹ And Moses answered, "We must go with young and old: yea and with our sons and with our daughters, and with our sheep and oxen must we go. For we must hold a feast unto the LORD." ¹⁰ And he said unto them, "Shall it be so? The LORD be with you! Should I let you go, and your children also? Take heed, for ye have some mischief in hand. ¹¹ Nay, not so: but go ye that are men and serve the LORD, for that was your desire." And they thrust them out of Pharaoh's presence. ¹² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for grasshoppers; that they come upon the land of Egypt and eat all the herbs of the land, and all that the hail left untouched." ¹³ And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land, all that day and all night. And in the morning the east wind brought the grasshoppers, ¹⁴ and the grasshoppers went up over all the land of Egypt and lighted in all quarters of Egypt very grievously: so that before them were there no such grasshoppers, neither after them shall be. ¹⁵ And they covered all the face of the earth, so that the land was dark therewith. And they ate all the herbs of the land and all the fruits of the trees which the hail had left: so that there was no green thing left in the trees and herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt. ¹⁶ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you. ¹⁷ Forgive me yet my sin only this once, and pray unto the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death only." ¹⁸ And he went out from Pharaoh and prayed unto the LORD, ¹⁹ and the LORD turned the wind into a mighty strong west wind, and it took away the grasshoppers and cast them into the reed sea: so that there was not one grasshopper left in all the coasts of Egypt. ²⁰ But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go. ²¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Stretch out thy hand unto heaven, and let there be darkness upon the land of Egypt: even that they may feel the darkness." ²² And Moses stretched forth his hand unto heaven, and there was a dark mist upon all the land of Egypt three days long, ²³ so that no man saw another, neither rose up from the place where he was by the space of three days, but all the children of Israel had light where they dwelled. ²⁴ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and said, "Go and serve the LORD; only let your sheep, and your oxen abide, but let your children go with you." ²⁵ And Moses answered, "Thou must give us also offerings and burnt offerings for to sacrifice unto the LORD our God. ²⁶ Our cattle therefore shall go with us, and there shall not one hoof be left behind, for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God. Moreover, we cannot know wherewith we shall serve the LORD, until we come thither." ²⁷ But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let them go. ²⁸ And Pharaoh said unto him, "Get thee from me and take heed to thyself that thou see my face no more. For whensoever thou comest in my sight, thou shalt die." ²⁹ And Moses said, "Let it be as thou hast said: I will see thy face no more."

¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt, and after that he will let you go hence. And when he letteth you go, he shall utterly drive you hence. ² But bid the people that every man borrow of his neighbor and every woman of her neighboress: jewels of silver and jewels of gold." ³ And the LORD gat the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, Moses was very great in the land of Egypt: both in the sight of Pharaoh, and also in the sight of the people. ⁴ And Moses said, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'About midnight will I go out among the Egyptians, ⁵ and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die: even from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth on his seat, unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is in the mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle. ⁶ And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt: so that there was never none like, nor shall be. 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.' ⁸ And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and fall before me and say, 'Get thee out and all the people that are under thee!' And then will I depart." And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger. ⁹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Pharaoh shall not regard you, that many wonders may be wrought in the land of Egypt." ¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

¹ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ² "This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you. ³ Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel, saying that they take, the tenth day of this month, to every household: a sheep. ⁴ If the household be too few for a sheep, then let him and his neighbor that is next unto this house, take according to the number of souls, and count unto a sheep according to every man's eating. ⁵ A sheep without spot and a male of one year old shall it be, and from among the lambs and the goats shall ye take it. ⁶ And ye shall keep him inward, until the fourteenth day of the same month. And every man of the multitude of Israel shall kill him about even. ⁷ And they shall take of the blood and strike on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses, wherein they eat him. ⁸ And they shall eat the flesh the same night, roast with fire, and with unleavened bread, and with sour herbs they shall eat it. ⁹ See that ye eat not thereof sodden in water, but roast with fire: both head, feet, and purtenance together. ¹⁰ And see that ye let nothing of it remain unto the morning: if ought remain, burn it with fire. ¹¹ Of this manner shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, and shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And ye shall eat it in haste; for it is the LORD's Passover. ¹² "For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution. ¹³ And the blood shall be unto you a token, upon the houses wherein ye are; for when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ And this day shall be unto you a remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the LORD: even throughout your generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom forever. ¹⁵ Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, so that even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be plucked out from Israel. ¹⁶ "The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, and the seventh also. There shall be no manner of work done in them, save about that only which every man must eat: that only may ye do. ¹⁷ And see that ye keep you to unleavened bread. For upon that same day I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt, therefore ye shall observe this day and all your children after you, that it be a custom forever. ¹⁸ The first month and the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat sweet bread unto the twenty-first day of the month at even again. ¹⁹ Seven days see that there be no leavened bread found in your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread, that soul shall be rooted out from the multitude of Israel: whether he be a stranger or born in the land. ²⁰ Therefore see that ye eat no leavened bread, but in all your habitations eat sweet bread." ²¹ And Moses called for the elders of Israel and said unto them, "Choose out, and take to every household a sheep and kill, Passover. ²² And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike it upon the upper post and on the two side posts, and see that none of you go out at the door of his house until the morning. ²³ For the LORD will go about and smite Egypt. And when he seeth the blood upon the upper door post and on the two side posts, he will pass over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your house to plague you. ²⁴ Therefore see that thou observe this thing, that it be an ordinance to thee, and thy sons forever. ²⁵ And when ye be come into the land which the LORD will give you according as he hath promised, see that ye keep this service. ²⁶ And when your children ask you, 'What manner of service is this ye do?' ²⁷ Ye shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, which passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, as he smote the Egyptians and saved our houses.'" Then the people bowed themselves and worshipped. ²⁸ And the children of Israel went and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. ²⁹ And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his seat, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all firstborn of the cattle. ³⁰ Then Pharaoh arose the same night and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crying throughout Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead. ³¹ And he called unto Moses and Aaron by night, saying, "Rise up, and get you out from among my people: both ye and also the children of Israel, and go and serve the LORD as ye have said. ³² And take your sheep and your oxen with you as ye have said, and depart and bless me also." ³³ And the Egyptians were fierce upon the people and made haste to send them out of the land: for they said, "We be all dead men." ³⁴ And the people took the dough before it was soured which they had in store, and bound it in cloths, and put it upon their shoulders. ³⁵ And the children of Israel did according to the saying of Moses: and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. ³⁶ And the LORD gat the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and so they borrowed, and robbed the Egyptians. ³⁷ Thus took the children of Israel their journey from Rameses to Succoth; six hundred thousand men of foot, beside children. ³⁸ And much common people went also with them, and sheep, and oxen, and cattle exceeding much. ³⁹ And they baked sweet cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt, for it was not soured: because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared them any other provision of meat. ⁴⁰ And the time of the dwelling of the children of Israel, which they dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹ And when the four hundred and thirty years were expired, even the self same day departed all the hosts of the LORD out of the land of Egypt. ⁴² This is a night to be observed to the LORD, because he brought them out of the land of Egypt. This is a night of the LORD, to be kept of all the children of Israel and of their generations after them. ⁴³ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, "This is the manner of Passover: there shall no stranger eat thereof, ⁴⁴ but all the servants that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat thereof. ⁴⁵ A stranger and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. ⁴⁶ In one house shall it be eaten. Ye shall carry none of the flesh out at the doors: moreover, see that ye break not a bone thereof. ⁴⁷ All the multitude of the children of Israel shall observe it. ⁴⁸ If a stranger dwell among you, and will hold Passover unto the LORD, let him circumcise all that be males, and then let him come and observe it, and be taken as one that is born in the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. ⁴⁹ One manner of law shall be unto them that are born in the land, and unto the strangers that dwell among you." ⁵⁰ And all the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron. ⁵¹ And even the self same day did the LORD bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with their armies.

²² and they ascended unto the south and came unto Hebron: where Ahiman was, and Sheshai and Talmai; the sons of Anak. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

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

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

¹⁰ and showed tokens and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they were presumptuous and cruel against them; and so madest thou thee a name as it is this day.

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

²⁷ These did his tokens among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent darkness, and it was dark; for they were not obedient unto his word. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. ³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs; yea, even in their king's chambers. ³¹ He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters. ³² He gave them hail stones for rain, and flames of fire in their land. ³³ He smote their vineyards and fig trees, and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts. ³⁴ He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable, ³⁵ and did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruits of their ground. ³⁶ He smote all the firstborn in their land, even the chief of all their strength. ³⁷ He brought them forth also with silver and gold; there was not one feeble person among their tribes. ³⁸ Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were afraid of them.

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

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

¹¹ But ye foolish princes of Zoan, ye wise counselors of Pharaoh, whose wit is turned to foolishness: How say ye unto Pharaoh, "I am come of wise people;

¹³ The princes of Zoan are become fools, and the princes of Noph are deceived: yea, they deceive Egypt with their nobility of their stock.

¹⁴ As for Pathros, I will make it desolate, and kindle a fire in Zoan.

¹ Then the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ² "Bid the children of Israel that they turn and pitch their tents before the entering of Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea toward Baalzephon: even before that shall ye pitch upon the sea. ³ For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are tangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.' ⁴ And I will harden his heart, that he shall follow after them, that I may get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD." And they did even so. ⁵ And when it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled, then Pharaoh's heart and all his servants turned unto the people and said, "Why have we this done, that we have let Israel go out of our service?" ⁶ And he made ready his chariots and took his people with him, ⁷ and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and captains upon all his people. ⁸ For the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he followed after the children of Israel which for all that went out through a high hand. ⁹ And the Egyptians followed after them and overtook them where they pitched by the sea, with all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and with his horsemen and his host: even fast by the entering of Hiroth before Baalzephon. ¹⁰ And Pharaoh drew nigh, and when the children of Israel lift up their eyes and saw how the Egyptians followed after them, they were sore afraid and cried out unto the LORD. ¹¹ Then said they unto Moses, "Were there no graves for us in Egypt, but thou must bring us away for to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou served us thus, for to carry us out of Egypt? ¹² Did not we tell thee this in Egypt saying, 'Let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians?' For it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness." ¹³ And Moses said unto the people, "Fear ye not, but stand still and behold how the LORD shall save you this day: For as ye see the Egyptians this day, shall ye see them no more forever till the world's end. ¹⁴ The LORD shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace." ¹⁵ The LORD said unto Moses, "Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.

²¹ When now Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, the LORD carried away the sea with a strong east wind that blew all night, and made the sea dry land and the water divided itself.

⁸ With the breath of thine anger the water gathered together and the floods stood still as a rock, and the deep water congealed together in the midst of the sea.

¹⁶ the water that came down from above did stop; and stood upon a heap, a great way from Adam, a city beside Zarethan. And the water that went down vanished into the sea of the wilderness called the salt sea as soon as it was divided: and the people went right over against Jericho.

⁷ For my loins are filled with a sore disease, and there is no whole part in my body.

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

⁹ He rebuked the reed sea, and it was dried up: so he led them through the deep, as through a wilderness. ¹⁰ And he saved them from the adversary's hand, and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.

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.

¹³ how he led them in the deep, as a horse is led in the plain, that they should not stumble.

¹⁵ Thou makest a way for thine horses in the sea, even in the mud of great waters.

² and were all baptised under Moses in the cloud and in the sea: ³ and did all eat of one spiritual meat,

²¹ And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way: and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: that they might go both by day and night. ²² And the pillar of the cloud never departed by day nor the pillar of fire by night out of the people's sight.

²⁴ And in the morning watch, the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians out of the fiery and cloudy pillar, and troubled their host;

³⁵ so that Moses could not enter into the tabernacle of witness, because the cloud abode therein, and the glory of the LORD filled the habitation. ³⁶ When the cloud was taken up from off the habitation, the children of Israel took their journeys, as oft as they journeyed. ³⁷ And if the cloud departed not, they journeyed not till it departed: ³⁸ for the cloud of the LORD was upon the habitation by day, and fire by night: in the sight of all the house of Israel in all their journeys.

¹² and leddest them in the daytime in a cloudy pillar; and on the night season in a pillar of fire, to show them light in the way that they went.

¹⁹ yet thou forsookest them not in the wilderness, according to thy great mercy. And the cloudy pillar departed not from them in the daytime to lead them the way, neither the pillar of fire in the night season, to show them light in the way that they went.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season.

⁶ Behold, I will stand there before thee upon a rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out thereof, that the people may drink." And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel.

¹¹ And Moses lift up his hand with his staff and smote the rock two times, and the water came out abundantly, and the multitude drank and their beasts also.

⁴¹ He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out, so that rivers ran in the dry places.

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

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.

²⁰ The wild beasts shall worship me: the dragon, and the Ostrich. For I shall give water in the wilderness, and streams in the desert: that I may give drink to my people, whom I choose.

²¹ that they suffered no thirst, when they travailed in the wilderness. He clave the rocks asunder, and the water gushed out."

³⁷ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. ³⁸ He that believeth on me, as sayeth the scripture, 'Out of his belly shall flow rivers of water of life.'"

⁴ and did all drink of one manner of spiritual drink. And they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, Which rock was Christ.

¹ And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the seat of God and of the lamb.

¹⁷ And the spirit and the bride said, "Come." And let him that heareth, say also "Come." And let him that is athirst come. And let whosoever will, take of the water of life free.

⁸ "Take the staff and gather, thou and thy brother Aaron, the congregation together; and say unto the rock, before their eyes, that he give forth his water. And thou shalt bring them water out of the rock and shalt give the company drink, and their beasts also."

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

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:

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

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

¹² and said unto me, 'Up, and get thee down quickly from hence, for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have marred themselves. They are turned at once out of the way, which I commanded them, and have made them a god of metal.' ¹³ Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, 'I see this people how that it is a stiff-necked people; ¹⁴ let me alone that I may destroy them and put out the name of them from under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation both greater and more than they.' ¹⁵ And I turned away and came down from the hill — and the hill burnt with fire — and had the two tables of the covenant in my hands. ¹⁶ And when I looked and saw that ye had sinned against the LORD your God and had made you a calf of metal and had turned at once out of the way which the LORD had commanded you; ¹⁷ Then I took the two tables and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. ¹⁸ And I fell before the LORD, even as at the first time — forty days and nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water — over all your sins which ye had sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD and in provoking him. ¹⁹ For I was afraid of the wrath and fierceness wherewith the LORD was angry with you, even for to have destroyed you; But the LORD heard my petition at that time also. ²⁰ The LORD was very angry with Aaron also, even for to have destroyed him: But I made intercession for Aaron also the same time. ²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made and burnt him with fire and stamped him and ground him a-good, even unto small dust. And I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. ²² Also at Taberah and at Massah and at the sepulchres of lust ye angered the LORD.

³² But for all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his wondrous works.

⁸ Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness, ⁹ when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. ¹⁰ Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."

¹³ But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel. ¹⁴ A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert. ¹⁵ And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul. ¹⁶ They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. ¹⁷ So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ The fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the ungodly. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay. ²¹ They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt, ²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea. ²³ So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them. ²⁴ Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word, ²⁵ but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. ²⁶ Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness, ²⁷ to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead. ²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them. ³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice; and so the plague ceased. ³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all posterities for evermore. ³² They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes,

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

¹⁶ For some, when they heard, rebelled: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt under Moses. ¹⁷ But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned: whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? ¹⁸ To whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but unto them that believed not? ¹⁹ And we see that they could not enter in, because of unbelief.

² And the whole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, ³ and said unto them, "Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and ate bread our bellies' full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole multitude for hunger."

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

¹⁶ Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God as ye did at Massah.

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

¹⁴ A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert. ¹⁵ And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul.

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

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

² Ye lust, and have not. Ye envy and have indignation, and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, and have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness.

³ and said unto them, "Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and ate bread our bellies' full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole multitude for hunger."

⁸ And moreover spake Moses, "At evening the LORD will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread enough, because the LORD hath heard your murmur which ye murmur against him: for what are we? Your murmuring is not against us, but against the LORD." ⁹ And Moses spake unto Aaron, "Say unto all the company of the children of Israel, 'Come forth before the LORD, for he hath heard your grudgings.'" ¹⁰ And as Aaron spake unto the whole multitude of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness: and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in a cloud.

¹³ Where should I have flesh to give unto all this people? For they weep unto me saying, 'Give us flesh that we may eat.'

³ And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD.

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."

¹⁹ And they spake against the God of Jerusalem; as against the gods of the nations of the earth, which are the work of the hands of men.

³⁷ yea, above his sins he hath blasphemed, which offense he hath done even before us, in that he striveth against God with his words!"

⁵ Thou preparest a table before me against mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil, and fillest my cup full.

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

⁶ And he opened his mouth unto blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

¹² And Sara laughed in herself saying, "Now I am waxed old, shall I give myself to lust, and my lord old also?" ¹³ Then said the LORD unto Abraham, "Wherefore doth Sara laugh saying, 'shall I of a surety bear a child, now when I am old?' ¹⁴ Is the thing too hard for the LORD to do? In the time appointed will I return unto thee, as soon as the fruit can have life. And Sara shall have a son."

⁶ Behold, I will stand there before thee upon a rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out thereof, that the people may drink." And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel. ⁷ And he called the name of the place: Massah-and-Meribah: because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

¹⁸ And say unto the people, 'Hallow your selves against tomorrow, that ye may eat flesh, for ye have whined in the ears of the LORD saying: Who shall give us flesh to eat? For we were happy when we were in Egypt! Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

²¹ And Moses said, "Six hundred thousand footmen are there of the people, among which I am. And thou hast said, 'I will give them flesh and they shall eat a month long.' ²² Shall the sheep and the oxen be slain for them to find them, either shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together to serve them?" ²³ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Is the LORD's hand waxed short? Thou shalt see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not."

⁴¹ They turned back, and tempted God, and moved the holy one in Israel.

¹ And the people waxed unpatient, and it displeased the ears of the LORD. And when the LORD heard it, he was wroth, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed the uttermost of the host. ² And the people cried unto Moses, and he made intercession unto the LORD; and the fire quenched. ³ And they called the name of the place Taberah because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

¹⁰ And when Moses heard the people weep in their households every man in the door of his tent, then the wrath of the LORD waxed hot exceedingly: and it grieved Moses also.

²² For fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn unto the bottom of hell; and shall consume the earth with her increase; and set afire the bottoms of the mountains.

³¹ the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

⁵ But in many of them had God no delight. For they were overthrown in the wilderness.

¹¹ All these things happened upon them for examples, and were written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon.

²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

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

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

²⁴ Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word,

⁹ And the chief city of Ephraim is Samaria, but the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. And if ye believe not, there shall no promise be kept with you.'"

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

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him: For he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek him.

¹⁰ He that believeth in the son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God, maketh him a liar, because he doth not believe the witness that God hath testified of his son.

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, that same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,

² Then a great lord on whose hand the king leaned, answered the man of God and said, "Though the LORD would make windows in heaven, yet would not this be." And he said again, "Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes and shalt not eat thereof."

¹⁹ And the lord answered the man of God and said, "Though the LORD made windows in heaven, yet would not this be." And the other said, "Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, and shalt not eat thereof."

⁹ For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

⁶ I will lay it waste, that it shall neither be twisted nor cut, but bear thorns and briers. I will also forbid the clouds, that they shall not rain upon it.

¹⁰ Bring every tithe into my barn, that there may be meat in mine house: and prove me withal, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven unto you, and pour you out a blessing with plenteousness.

⁴ Then said the LORD unto Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven down to you, and let the people go out, and gather day by day, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no.

¹⁴ And when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay upon the ground in the wilderness, small and round and thin as the hoarfrost on the ground.

³ He humbled thee and made thee hunger and fed thee with Manna, which neither thou nor thy father knew of, to make thee know that a man must not live by bread only: but by all that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD must a man live.

¹⁵ and gavest them bread from heaven when they were hungry, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock when they were thirsty: and promised them, that they should go in, and take possession of the land, over which thou hadst lift up thine hand for to give them.

²⁰ And thou gavest them thy good spirit to inform them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water when they were thirsty.

⁹ Thou, O God sendest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance, and refreshest it when it is dry.

⁴⁰ At their desire, there came quails; and he filled them with the bread of heaven.

³¹ Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" ³² Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, Moses gave you bread from heaven: but my father giveth you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For he is the bread of God, which cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world." ³⁴ Then said they unto him, "Lord, ever more give us this bread." ³⁵ And Jesus said unto them, "I am that bread of life. He that cometh to me, shall not hunger: and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. ³⁶ But I said unto you, That ye have seen me, and yet believe ye not. ³⁷ All that the father giveth me, shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, cast I not away. ³⁸ For I came down from heaven: not to do mine own will, but his will which hath sent me. ³⁹ And this is the father's will which hath sent me: that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again at the last day. ⁴⁰ And this is the will of him that sent me: That every man which seeth the son, and believeth on him, have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day." ⁴¹ The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, "I am that bread which is come down from heaven." ⁴² And they said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father, and mother we know? How is it then that he sayeth, I came down from heaven?" ⁴³ Jesus answered and said unto them, "Murmur not between yourselves. ⁴⁴ No man can come to me except the father, which hath sent me, draw him. And I will raise him up at the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, 'That they shall all be taught of God.' Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the father, cometh unto me: ⁴⁶ not that any man hath seen the father, save he which is of God. The same hath seen the father. ⁴⁷ Verily, verily I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. ⁴⁸ "I am that bread of life. ⁴⁹ Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness: and are dead. ⁵⁰ This, is that bread which cometh from heaven: that he which of it eateth, should also not die. ⁵¹ I am that living bread, which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give, is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." ⁵² And the Jews strove among themselves, saying, "How can this fellow give us his flesh to eat?" ⁵³ Then Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall not have life in you. ⁵⁴ Whosoever eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, the same hath eternal life: And I will raise him up at the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. ⁵⁶ He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me: and I in him. ⁵⁷ As the living father hath sent me, even so live I by my father: and he that eateth me, shall live by me. ⁵⁸ This is the bread which came from heaven: not as your fathers have eaten manna and are dead. He that eateth of this bread, shall live ever." ⁵⁹ These things said he in the synagogue as he taught in Capernaum. ⁶⁰ Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; Who can abide the hearing of it?" ⁶¹ Jesus knew, in himself, that his disciples murmured at it, and said unto them, "Doth this offend you? ⁶² What and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up where he was before? ⁶³ It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you that believe not." For Jesus knew from the beginning, which they were that believed not. And who should betray him. ⁶⁵ And he said, "Therefore said I unto you, That no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my father." ⁶⁶ From that time, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. ⁶⁷ Then said Jesus to the twelve, "Will ye also go away?" ⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ And we have believed, and known, that thou art Christ, the son of the living God." ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, "Have not I chosen you twelve? And yet one of you is the devil?" ⁷¹ He spake it of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. For he it was that should betray him, and was one of the twelve.

³ and did all eat of one spiritual meat,

⁸ And moreover spake Moses, "At evening the LORD will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread enough, because the LORD hath heard your murmur which ye murmur against him: for what are we? Your murmuring is not against us, but against the LORD."

²⁰ O praise the LORD ye angels of his, ye that excel in strength, ye that fulfill his commandment, and hearken unto the voice of his word.

²⁰ And they did all eat, and were sufficed. And they gathered up of the gobbets that remained twelve baskets full.

³⁷ And they did all eat, and were sufficed. And they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.

³¹ And there went forth a wind from the LORD and brought quails from the sea and let them fall about the host, even a day's journey round about on every side of the host, and two cubits high upon the earth.

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.

¹² "I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, tell them therefore and say that at evening they shall eat flesh, and in the morning they shall be filled with bread, and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God." ¹³ And at evening the quails came and covered the ground where they lay. And in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

¹⁸ And say unto the people, 'Hallow your selves against tomorrow, that ye may eat flesh, for ye have whined in the ears of the LORD saying: Who shall give us flesh to eat? For we were happy when we were in Egypt! Therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. ¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day only, either two or five days, either ten or twenty days:

³² And the people stood up all that night and on the morrow, and gathered quails. And he that gathered the least, gathered ten homers full. And they killed them round about the host.

¹⁹ Ye shall not eat one day only, either two or five days, either ten or twenty days: ²⁰ but even a month long, and until it come out at the nostrils of you, that ye be ready to parbreak: because that ye have cast the LORD aside which is among you, and have wept before him saying: Why came we out of Egypt?"

¹⁵ And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul.

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.

²⁰ And God came to Balaam by night and said unto him, "If the men come to fetch thee, rise up and go with them: but what I say unto thee, that only thou shalt do." ²¹ And Balaam rose up early and saddled his ass and went with the lords of Moab. ²² But God was angry because he went. And the angel of the LORD stood in the way against him. And he rode upon his ass and two servants with him.

³² for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.

¹⁹ "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day. ²⁰ And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which lay at his gate full of sores, ²¹ desiring to be refreshed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's board. Nevertheless, the dogs came, and licked his sores. ²² And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell. ²³ And being in hell, in torments, he lift up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom;

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

¹ And the multitude cried out, and the people wept throughout that night, ² and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole congregation said unto them, "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, either we would that we had died in this wilderness. ³ Wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword, that both our wives, and also our children should be a prey? Is it not better that we return unto Egypt again?" ⁴ And they said, one to another, "Let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again." ⁵ And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the multitude of the children of Israel. ⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes ⁷ and spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, "The land which we walked through to search it, is a very good land. ⁸ If the LORD have lust to us, he will bring us into this land and give it us, which is a land that floweth with milk and honey. ⁹ But in any wise, rebel not against the LORD. Moreover fear ye not the people of the land, for they are but bread for us. Their shield is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not therefore." ¹⁰ And all the whole multitude bade stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of witness, unto all the children of Israel. ¹¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "How long shall this people rail upon me, and how long will it be, yer they believe me, for all my signs which I have showed among them? ¹² I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make of thee a greater nation and a mightier than they." ¹³ And Moses said unto the LORD, "Then the Egyptians shall hear it, for thou broughtest this people with thy might from among them. ¹⁴ And it will be told to the inhabiters of this land also, for they have heard likewise, that thou the LORD art among this people, and that thou art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ If thou shalt kill all this people as they were but one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee, will speak, saying, ¹⁶ 'Because the LORD was not able to bring in this people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore he slew them in the wilderness.' ¹⁷ So now let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸ 'The LORD is long yer he be angry, and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation.' ¹⁹ Be merciful I beseech ye therefore, unto the sin of this people according unto thy great mercy, and according as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even unto this place." ²⁰ And the LORD said, "I have forgiven it, according to thy request. ²¹ But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with my glory. ²² For of all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice, ²³ there shall not one see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that railed upon me, see it. ²⁴ But my servant Caleb, because there is another manner spirit with him, and because he hath followed me unto the utmost: him I will bring into the land which he hath walked in, and his seed shall conquer it, ²⁵ and also the Amalekites and Canaanites which dwell in the low countries. Tomorrow turn you and get you into the wilderness: even the way toward the reed sea." ²⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, ²⁷ "How long shall this evil multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur against me. ²⁸ Tell them that the LORD sayeth, 'As truly as I live, I will do unto you even as ye have spoken in mine ears. ²⁹ Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me ³⁰ come in to the land over which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell therein — save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. ³¹ And your children, which ye said should be a prey: them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have refused, ³² and your carcases shall lie in this wilderness. ³³ And your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness, ³⁴ after the number of the days in which ye searched out the land forty days, and every day a year: so that they shall bear your unrighteousness forty years, and ye shall feel my vengeance. ³⁵ I, the LORD, have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here ye shall die." ³⁶ And the men which Moses sent to search the land, and which — when they came again — made all the people to murmur against it, in that they brought up a slander upon the land; ³⁷ died for their bringing up that evil slander upon it, and were plagued before the LORD. ³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. ³⁹ And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people took great sorrow. ⁴⁰ And they rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, "Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place of which the LORD said, for we have sinned." ⁴¹ And Moses said, "Wherefore will ye go on this manner beyond the word of the LORD? It will not come well to pass: ⁴² go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not slain before your enemies. ⁴³ For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall upon the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, and therefore the LORD will not be with you." ⁴⁴ But they were blinded to go up into the hilltop: Neverthelater, the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the host. ⁴⁵ Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, came down and smote them and hewed them: even unto Hormah.

¹ And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; and Dathan and Abiram, the son of Eliab; and On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben, ² stood up before Moses, with other of the children of Israel: two hundred and fifty, heads of the congregation, and councilors, and men of fame. ³ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "Ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why therefore heave ye yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?" ⁴ When Moses heard it, he fell upon his face ⁵ and spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will show who is his and who is holy, and will take them unto him, and whomsoever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to him. ⁶ This do: take firepans, thou Korah and all thy company, ⁷ and do fire therein and put cense thereto before the LORD tomorrow: And then whomsoever the LORD doeth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do, ye children of Levi." ⁸ And Moses said unto Korah, "Hear, ye children of Levi: ⁹ Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel to bring you to him, to do the service of the dwelling place of the LORD, and to stand before the people to minister unto them? ¹⁰ He hath taken thee to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and ye seek the office of the priest also. ¹¹ For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: for what is Aaron, that ye should murmur against him?" ¹² And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they answered, "We will not come. ¹³ Seemeth it a small thing unto thee that thou hast brought us out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness; but that thou shouldest reign over us also? ¹⁴ Moreover, thou hast brought us unto no land that floweth with milk and honey, neither hast given us possessions of fields or of vines. Either wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men? We will not come." ¹⁵ And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the LORD, "Turn not unto their offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass from them, neither have vexed any of them." ¹⁶ Then Moses said unto Korah, "Be thou and all thy company before the LORD: both thou, they, and Aaron tomorrow. ¹⁷ And take every man his censer and put cense in them, and come before the LORD every man with his censer: two hundred and fifty censers, and Aaron with his censer."

¹ And when king Arad the Cananite, which dwelt in the south parts, heard tell that Israel came by the way that the spies had found out: he came and fought with Israel and took some of them prisoners. ² Then Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD and said, "If thou wilt give this people into our hands, we will destroy their cities." ³ And the LORD heard the voice of Israel, and delivered them the Canaanites. And they destroyed both them and their cities, and called the place Hormah. ⁴ Then they departed from mount Hor toward the reed sea: to compass the land of Edom. And the souls of the people fainted by the way. 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.

¹ And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, ² which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And the people ate, and worshipped their gods, ³ and Israel coupled himself unto Baal-Peor. Then the LORD was angry with Israel, ⁴ and said unto Moses, "Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up unto the LORD against the sun, that the wrath of the LORD may turn away from Israel." ⁵ And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, "Go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal- Peor." ⁶ And behold, one of the children of Israel went in against his brethren, and joined himself to a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁷ And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up out of the company and took a weapon in his hand, ⁸ and went after the man of Israel into the whorehouse, and thrust them through: both the man of Israel and also the woman even through the belly of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel. ⁹ And there died in the plague twenty four thousand. ¹⁰ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ¹¹ "Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned mine anger away from the children of Israel, because he was jealous for my sake among them; that I had not consumed the children of Israel in my jealousy. ¹² Wherefore, say, 'Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace, ¹³ and he shall have it and his seed after him, even the covenant of the priest's office forever, because he was jealous for his God's sake and made an atonement for the children of Israel.'" ¹⁴ The name of the Israelite which was smitten with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a lord of an ancient house among the Simeonites. ¹⁵ And the name of the Midianitish woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur and head over the people of an ancient house in Midian. ¹⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ¹⁷ "Vex the Midianites and smite them, ¹⁸ for they have troubled you with their wiles with thee, which they have beguiled you, through Peor and through their sister Cozbi the daughter of a lord in Midian, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."

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

²² because they believed not in God, and put not their trust in his help.

¹³ And yet the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They would not walk in my commandments; they have cast away my laws, which whoso keepeth should live in them; and my Sabbath days have they greatly unhallowed. Then I made me to pour out my indignation upon them, and to consume them in the wilderness.

³¹ He said unto him, 'If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, though one rose from death again.'"

³⁷ And though he had done so many miracles before them, yet believed not they on him,

¹⁶ And unto the woman he said, "I will surely increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee." ¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, "Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying 'See thou eat not thereof' cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all days of thy life: ¹⁸ and it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou shalt eat the herbs of the field: ¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast taken: for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return."

²⁹ Your carcasses shall lie in this wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty years and above of you which have murmured against me

³⁵ I, the LORD, have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here ye shall die."

⁶⁴ And among these there was not a man of the number of the children of Israel which Moses and Aaron told in the wilderness of Sinai. ⁶⁵ For the LORD said unto them, that they should die in the wilderness and that there should not be left a man of them: save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹⁴ The space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we were come over the river Zered was thirty eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out of the host, as the LORD sware unto them. ¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them out of the host, till they were consumed. ¹⁶ And as soon as all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

⁶ "It is not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground; ⁷ but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the sparks fly up out of the hot coals.

¹ Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of divers miseries.

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

² All is but vanity - sayeth the Preacher - all is but plain vanity.

¹³ applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein. ¹⁴ Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.

⁸ All is but vanity - sayeth the preacher - all is but plain vanity.

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of all things: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that toucheth all men; ¹⁴ For God shall judge all works and secret things, whether they be good or evil.

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 Therefore the LORD was angry with Israel and delivered them into the hands of Cushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia. So that the children of Israel served Cushanrishathaim eight years. ⁹ And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD. And the LORD stirred them up a saver and saved them: one Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

¹² And then the children of Israel went to again, and committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And then the LORD hardened Eglon the king of the Moabites, against the children of Israel, because they had committed wickedness before the LORD. ¹³ And this Eglon gathered unto him the children of Ammon, and the Amalekites, and went and smote the children of Israel, and conquered the city of palm trees. ¹⁴ And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of the Moabites eighteen years. ¹⁵ And then they cried unto the LORD. And the LORD stirred them up a saver, Ehud the son of Gera, the son of Jemini, a man that could do nothing handsomely with his right hand. And when the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of the Moabites,

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.

⁷ And the LORD was wroth with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon: ⁸ which pilled and oppressed the children of Israel in those days eighteen years, all that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead. ⁹ Moreover, the children of Ammon went over Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim: so that Israel was sore cumbered. ¹⁰ Then the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee: for we have forsaken our own God, and have served Baalim."

⁶ that they may be trodden under the feet of the simple, and with the steps of the poor.

²³ thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child?

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

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

⁶ Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and will rid you out of their bondage, and will deliver you with a stretched-out arm and with great judgments.

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

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.

²⁶ But I made intercession unto the LORD and said, 'O Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast delivered through thy greatness and which thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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

⁴ He is a Rock, and perfect are his deeds, for all his ways are with discretion. God is faithful and without wickedness, both righteous and just is he.

¹⁵ "And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him.

³⁰ How cometh it that one shall chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand of them to flight — except their rock had sold them, and because the LORD had delivered them. ³¹ "For our rock is not as their rock; no, though our enemies be judge.

² O think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased, and redeemed of old; the staff of thine inheritance, whom thou hast redeemed, even this hill of Zion wherein thou dwellest.

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

²¹ They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt,

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

⁶ Moreover, thus hath the LORD spoken; even the King of Israel, and his avenger, the LORD of Hosts: I am the first and the last, and without me is there no God.

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 For he said, "These no doubt will be my people, and no shrinking children," and so he was their Saviour. ⁹ In their troubles he forsook them not, but the angel that went forth from his presence delivered them. Of very love and kindness that he had unto them, he redeemed them: He hath born them, and carried them up ever since the world began.

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.

²⁸ And the LORD heard the voice of your words when ye spake unto me, and he said unto me, 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoke unto thee, they have well said all that they have said. 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.

⁴⁴ As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me, but the strange children dissemble with me. {TYNDALE: And the aliens crouched unto me, and obeyed me at a word.}

¹² Then believed they in his word, and sang praise unto him. ¹³ But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel.

¹³ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD, "Forsomuch as this people, when they be in trouble, do honor me with their mouth, and with their lips, whereas their heart nevertheless is far from me; and the fear which they owe unto me, that turn they to men's laws and doctrines;

¹¹ For when wilt thou be abashed or fear, seeing thou hast broken thy promise, and rememberest not me, neither hast me in thine heart? Thinkest thou, that I also will hold my peace as afore time, that thou fearest me not?

³¹ These come unto thee, after the manner of a great people: yea, my people sit down before thee, and hear thy words, but they do not thereafter: for in their mouths they show themselves, as though they were fervent, but their heart goeth after their own covetous lucre.

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

¹⁷ And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave ourselves unfaithfully in thy covenant. ¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way,

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

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

⁸⁰ O let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.

¹⁶ They turn themselves, but not aright, and are become as a broken bow. Their princes shall be slain with the sword for the malice of their tongues, such blasphemies have they learned in the land of Egypt.

² Their heart is divided, therefore will they be destroyed. The LORD shall break down their Images, he shall destroy their altars.

²¹ Thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this business. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

⁶ And when the LORD walked before him, he cried, "LORD, LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth, ⁷ and keepest mercy in store for thousands, and forgivest wickedness, trespass and sin — for there is no man innocent before thee — and visitest the wickedness of the fathers upon the children and upon children's children, even unto the third and fourth generation." ⁸ And Moses bowed himself to the earth quickly, and worshipped, ⁹ and said, "If I have found grace in thy sight O Lord, then let my Lord go with us — for it is a stubborn people. And have mercy upon our wickedness and our sin, and let us be thine inheritance."

¹⁸ 'The LORD is long yer he be angry, and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation.' ¹⁹ Be merciful I beseech ye therefore, unto the sin of this people according unto thy great mercy, and according as thou hast forgiven this people from Egypt even unto this place." ²⁰ And the LORD said, "I have forgiven it, according to thy request.

⁴⁴ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵ "Get you from this congregation, that I may consume them quickly." And they fell upon their faces. ⁴⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun." ⁴⁷ And Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on cense, and made an atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ And he stood between the dead, and them that were alive, and the plague ceased.

²⁰ And he did that displeased the LORD as his father Manasseh did.

⁴³ Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. ⁴⁴ Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint. ⁴⁵ He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies;

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

⁹ Nevertheless, for my name's sake, I have withdrawn my wrath, and for mine honour's sake I have overseen thee, so that I have not rooted thee out.

⁸ But they rebelled against me, and would not follow me: to cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and to forsake the Idols of Egypt. Then I made me to pour my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them: Yea, even in the midst of the land of Egypt. ⁹ But I would not do it, for my name's sake: that it should not be unhallowed before the Heathen, among whom they dwelt, and among whom I showed myself unto them, that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt.

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

¹⁷ Nevertheless, mine eye spared them, so that I would not utterly slay them, and consume them in the wilderness.

²¹ Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness. ²² Nevertheless, I withdrew my hand for my name's sake, lest it should be unhallowed among the Heathen, before whom I had brought them forth.

³ And the LORD said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for they are flesh. Nevertheless I will give them yet space, a hundred and twenty years."

⁷ "O remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall no more see the pleasures thereof;

¹⁶ I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

⁹ O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again.

¹⁴ For he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembereth that we are but dust; ¹⁵ that a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower of the field. ¹⁶ For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh, is flesh. And that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

¹⁴ and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

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

¹⁷ Yet for all this they sinned more against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness.

¹⁴ A lust came upon them in the wilderness, so that they tempted God in the desert. ¹⁵ And he gave them their desire, but sent leanness withal into their soul. ¹⁶ They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD. ¹⁷ So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ The fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the ungodly. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay. ²¹ They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt, ²² wondrous works in the land of Ham, and fearful things in the reed sea. ²³ So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them. ²⁴ Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word, ²⁵ but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. ²⁶ Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness, ²⁷ to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead. ²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them. ³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice; and so the plague ceased. ³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all posterities for evermore. ³² They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes, ³³ because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

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.

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

³⁰ And grieve not the holy spirit of God, by whom ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

¹⁵ so long as it is said, "Today if ye hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as when ye provoked." ¹⁶ For some, when they heard, rebelled: howbeit, not all that came out of Egypt under Moses. ¹⁷ But with whom was he displeased forty years? Was he not displeased with them that sinned: whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

⁴ And they said, one to another, "Let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again."

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

²² Whom hast thou railed on, and whom hast thou reviled? Against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and hast lift up thine eyes so high? Even against the holy one of Israel!

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

¹⁸ The LORD is our defense, and the holy one of Israel is our king.

³⁵ While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house, certain which said, "Thy daughter is dead: why diseasest thou the Master any further?" ³⁶ As soon as Jesus heard that word spoken, he said unto the ruler of the Synagogue, "Be not afraid, only believe."

³⁹ to whom our fathers would not obey: But cast it from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

⁸ harden not your hearts, after the rebellion in the day of temptation in the wilderness, ⁹ where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years long. ¹⁰ Wherefore I was grieved with that generation and said, 'They ever err in their hearts: they verily have not known my ways,' ¹¹ so that I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."

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. ²² It is happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed, is returned to her wallowing in the mire."

⁹ Therefore it shall be a sign unto thee upon thine hand and a remembrance between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD brought thee out of Egypt;

¹² Did not we tell thee this in Egypt saying, 'Let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians?' For it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness."

³⁰ Thus the LORD delivered Israel the selfsame day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seaside. ³¹ And when Israel saw that mighty hand which the LORD had showed upon the Egyptians, they feared the LORD: and believed both the LORD and also his servant Moses.

³⁴ and thought not on the LORD their God which had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side.

²¹ When the LORD heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in Jacob, and heavy displeasure against Israel, ²² because they believed not in God, and put not their trust in his help.

⁷ Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance, but were disobedient at the sea, even at the reed sea. ⁸ Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake, that he might make his power to be known.

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.

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.

²¹ Thou hast brought thy people of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with tokens, with wonders, with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm and with great terribleness;

¹⁹ Notwithstanding, I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, except it be with a mighty hand: ²⁰ yea and I will therefore stretch out mine hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do therein. And after that he will let you go.

²¹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "When thou art come into Egypt again, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, so that he shall not let the people go.

³ But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that I may multiply my miracles and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Wherefore, thus sayeth the LORD: hereby thou shalt know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will smite with the staff that is in mine hand upon the waters that are in the river, and they shall turn to blood. ¹⁸ And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink: so that it shall grieve the Egyptians to drink of the water of the river.'" ¹⁹ And the LORD spake unto Moses, "Say unto Aaron, 'Take thy staff and stretch out thine hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, rivers, ponds and all pools of water, that they may be blood, and that there may be blood in all the land of Egypt: both in vessels of wood and also of stone.'" ²⁰ And Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD commanded. And he lift up the staff and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the river, turned into blood. ²¹ And the fish that was in the river died, and the river stank: so that the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

³ And the second angel shed out his vial upon the sea, and it turned as it were into the blood of a dead man, and every living thing died in the sea. ⁴ And the third angel shed out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters, and they turned to blood. ⁵ And I heard an angel say, "Lord which art and wast, thou art righteous and holy, because thou hast given such judgments, ⁶ for they shed out the blood of saints, and prophets, and therefore hast thou given them blood to drink: for they are worthy."

² If thou wilt not let them go, behold: I will smite all thy land with frogs. 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. ⁴ And the frogs shall come upon thee and on thy people and upon all thy servants.'" ⁵ And the LORD spake unto Moses, "Say unto Aaron, 'Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, rivers, and ponds. And bring up frogs upon the land of Egypt.'" ⁶ And Aaron stretched his hand over the water of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. ⁷ And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorcery, and the frogs came up upon the land of Egypt. ⁸ Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray ye unto the LORD that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the LORD." ⁹ And Moses said unto Pharaoh, "Appoint thou the time unto me, when I shall pray for thee and thy servants and thy people, to drive away the frogs from thee and thy house, so that they shall remain but in the river only." ¹⁰ And he said, "Tomorrow." And he said, "Even as thou hast said, that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. ¹¹ And the frogs shall depart from thee and from thine houses, and from thy servants and from thy people, and shall remain in the river only." ¹² And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the LORD upon the appointment of frogs which he had made unto Pharaoh. ¹³ And the LORD did according to the saying of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, courts and fields. ¹⁴ And they gathered them together upon heaps: so that the land stank of them. ¹⁵ But when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them, as the LORD had said.

²¹ If thou wilt not let my people go, behold: I will send all manner flies both upon thee and thy servants, and thy people, and into thy houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of flies, and the ground whereon they are. ²² But I will separate the same day the land of Goshen where my people are, so that there shall no flies be there: that thou mayest know that I am the LORD upon the earth. ²³ And I will put a division between my people and thine. And even tomorrow shall this miracle be done.'" 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.

³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs; yea, even in their king's chambers. ³¹ He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters.

³ And the second angel shed out his vial upon the sea, and it turned as it were into the blood of a dead man, and every living thing died in the sea.

¹² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for grasshoppers; that they come upon the land of Egypt and eat all the herbs of the land, and all that the hail left untouched." ¹³ And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land, all that day and all night. And in the morning the east wind brought the grasshoppers, ¹⁴ and the grasshoppers went up over all the land of Egypt and lighted in all quarters of Egypt very grievously: so that before them were there no such grasshoppers, neither after them shall be. ¹⁵ And they covered all the face of the earth, so that the land was dark therewith. And they ate all the herbs of the land and all the fruits of the trees which the hail had left: so that there was no green thing left in the trees and herbs of the field through all the land of Egypt.

³⁴ He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable, ³⁵ and did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruits of their ground.

⁴ Look, what the caterpillar hath left, that hath the grasshopper eaten up; what the grasshopper left, that hath the locust eaten up; and what the locust hath left, that hath the blasting consumed. ⁵ Wake up ye drunkards, and weep: mourn all ye wine sippers because of your sweet wine, for it shall be taken away from your mouth. ⁶ Yea, a mighty and an innumerable people shall come up into my land: these have teeth like the teeth of Lions, and chaftbones like the lioness. ⁷ They shall make my vineyard waste, they shall pull off the bark of my fig trees, strip them bare, cast them away, and make the branches white.

²⁵ And I will restore you again, with my great power which I have sent unto you, the years which the locusts and caterpillars have devoured.

¹ The LORD God showed me such a vision: behold, there stood one that made grasshoppers, even when the corn was shooting forth, after the king had clipped his sheep. ² Now when they undertook to eat up all the green things in the land, I said, "O LORD God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who should else help up Jacob that is brought so low?"

² And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit. ³ And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: And unto them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴ And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth: neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal in their foreheads, ⁵ and to them was commanded that they should not kill them, but that they should be vexed five months, and their pain was as the pain that cometh of a scorpion, when he hath stung a man. ⁶ And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them. ⁷ And the similitude of the locusts was like unto horses prepared unto battle, and on their heads were as it were crowns, like unto gold: and their faces were as it had been the faces of men. ⁸ And they had hairs as the hairs of women. And their teeth were as the teeth of lions. ⁹ And they had habergeons, as it were habergeons of iron. And the sound of their wings, was as the sound of chariots when many horses run together to battle. ¹⁰ And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men five months. ¹¹ And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue, is Abadon: but in the Greek tongue, Apollion, that is to say: a destroyer.

¹⁸ behold, tomorrow this time, I will send down a mighty great hail; even such one as was not in Egypt since it was grounded unto this time. ¹⁹ Send therefore and fetch home thy beasts and all that thou hast in the field. For upon all the men and beasts which are found in the field and not brought home, shall the hail fall, and they shall die.'" ²⁰ And as many as feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their beasts flee to house: ²¹ and they that regarded not the word of the LORD, left their servants and their beasts in the field. ²² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Stretch forth thine hand unto heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt: upon man and beast, and upon all the herbs of the field in the field of Egypt." ²³ And Moses stretched out his rod unto heaven, and the LORD thundered and hailed, so that the fire ran along upon the ground. And the LORD so hailed in the land of Egypt ²⁴ that there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so grievous that there was none such in all the land of Egypt, since people inhabited it. ²⁵ And the hail smote in the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast. And the hail smote all the herbs of the field and broke all the trees of the field: ²⁶ only in the land of Goshen where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. ²⁷ And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "I have now sinned, the LORD is righteous and I and my people are wicked. ²⁸ Pray ye unto the LORD, that the thunder of God and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and ye shall tarry no longer." ²⁹ And Moses said unto him, "As soon as I am out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD, and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail: that thou mayest know, how that the earth is the LORD's. ³⁰ But I know that thou and thy servants yet fear not the LORD God." ³¹ The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was shot up and the flax was bolled: ³² but the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were late sown. ³³ And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD, and the thunder and hail ceased, neither rained it any more upon the earth. ³⁴ When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and thunder were ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart: both he and his servants.

³² He gave them hail stones for rain, and flames of fire in their land. ³³ He smote their vineyards and fig trees, and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts.

¹⁹ Send therefore and fetch home thy beasts and all that thou hast in the field. For upon all the men and beasts which are found in the field and not brought home, shall the hail fall, and they shall die.'"

²⁸ Pray ye unto the LORD, that the thunder of God and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and ye shall tarry no longer."

¹³ And the blood shall be unto you a token, upon the houses wherein ye are; for when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

⁷ And with thy great glory thou hast destroyed thine adversaries! Thou sentest forth thy wrath and it consumed them, even as stubble.

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

²¹ Then came forth a spirit and stood before the LORD and said, 'I will deceive him.' And the LORD said, 'Wherewith?' ²² And he said, 'I will go out and be a false spirit in the mouths of all Prophets.' And the LORD said, 'Thou shalt deceive him and also prevail, go forth and do even so.'

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.

⁶ Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Lo, there hast thou him in thy power, but spare his life." ⁷ So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown;

²³ "For though the wicked have never so much to fill his belly, yet God shall send his wrath upon him, and cause his indignation to rain over him:

⁶ Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire, brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

²⁵ Therefore hath he poured upon us his wrathful displeasure, and strong battle, which maketh us have to do on every side, yet will we not understand. He burneth us up, yet sinketh it not into our hearts.

¹¹ {Khaf} The LORD hath performed his heavy wrath; he hath poured out the furiousness of his displeasure. He hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath consumed the foundations thereof.

⁸ Therefore ye shall wait upon me, sayeth the LORD, until the time that I stand up: for I am determined, to gather the people and to bring the kingdoms together, that I may pour out mine anger, yea all my wrathful displeasure upon them. For all the world shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

⁸ But unto them that are rebellious, and disobey the truth, and follow iniquity, shall come indignation and wrath, ⁹ tribulation and anguish, upon the soul of every man that doth evil. Of the Jew first: And also of the gentile.

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.

²² It rusheth in upon him, and spareth him not, he may not escape from the power thereof.

¹¹ Wherefore as truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, seeing thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all manner of abominations and with all thy shameful offenses: For this cause will I also destroy thee. Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee.

⁴ Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee: but reward thee according to thy ways, and declare thy abominations. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD.

⁹ Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee; but reward thee after thy ways, and show thy abominations, to learn you for to know how that I am the LORD that smiteth.

¹⁸ Therefore will I also do something in my wrathful displeasure: so that mine eye shall not oversee them, neither will I spare them. Yea, and though they cry in mine ears with loud voice, yet will I not hear them."

¹⁰ Therefore will I upon them; mine eye shall not oversee them, neither will I spare them, but will recompense their wickedness upon their heads."

³² Which spared not his own son, but gave him for us all: How shall he not with him give us all things also?

⁴ For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell, and delivered them in chains of darkness, to be kept unto judgement; ⁵ neither spared the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth preacher of righteousness, and brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

²² And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's privities, and told his two brethren that were without. ²³ And Shem and Japheth took a mantle, and put it on both their shoulders and went backward, and covered their father's secrets, but their faces were backward, so that they saw not their father's nakedness. ²⁴ As soon as Noah was awaked from his wine and wist what his youngest son had done unto him, ²⁵ he said, "Cursed be Canaan, and a servant, of all servants be he to his brethren."

⁶ The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.

³ "Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power.

¹² "For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.

²⁹ And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his seat, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all firstborn of the cattle. ³⁰ Then Pharaoh arose the same night and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crying throughout Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead.

¹⁵ And when Pharaoh was loath to let us go, the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: as well the firstborn of men as of beasts. And therefore I sacrifice unto the LORD all the males that open the matrix, but all the firstborn of my children I must redeem.'

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

²⁷ These did his tokens among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

³⁶ He smote all the firstborn in their land, even the chief of all their strength.

⁸ He smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and of beast.

¹⁰ Which smote Egypt with their firstborn! For his mercy endureth forever.

²⁸ Through faith he ordained the Easter lamb, and the effusion of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.

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

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

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

³⁷ He brought them forth also with silver and gold; there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

¹¹ He shall feed his flock like a herdsman. He shall gather the lambs together with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall kindly entreat those that bear young.

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

² Wherefore, this is the commandment of the LORD God of Israel, unto the shepherds that feed my people, "Ye scatter and thrust out my flock, and look not upon them. Therefore now will I visit the wickedness of your imaginations, sayeth the LORD: ³ And will gather together the remnant of my flock, from all lands that I had driven them unto, and will bring them again to their pastures, that they may grow and increase. ⁴ I will set shepherds also over them, which shall feed them. They shall no more fear and dread, for there shall none of them be lost, sayeth the LORD.

¹¹ For thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will look to my sheep myself, and seek 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. ¹³ I will bring them out from all people, and gather them together out of all lands, I will bring them into their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the places of the country. ¹⁴ I will feed them in right good pastures, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their folds be. There shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed: even upon the mountains of Israel. ¹⁵ I will feed my sheep myself, and bring them to their rest, sayeth the LORD God. ¹⁶ Such as be lost, will I seek; such as go astray, will I bring again; such as be wounded, will I bind up; such as be weak, will I make strong; such as be fat and well liking, those will I preserve and feed them with the thing that is lawful. ¹⁷ "'And as for you, O my sheep, sayeth the LORD God: I will put a difference among the sheep, among the wethers and the goats. ¹⁸ Was it not enough for you, to eat up the good pasture, but ye must tread down the residue of your pastures with your feet also? Was it not enough for you to drink clear water, but ye must trouble the residue also with your feet? ¹⁹ Thus my sheep must be fain to eat the thing that ye have trodden down with your feet, and to drink it that ye with your feet have defiled. ²⁰ Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God unto them: Behold, I will sever the fat sheep from the lean: ²¹ forsomuch as ye have shot the weak sheep upon the sides and shoulders, and run upon them with your horns, so long till ye have utterly scattered them abroad. ²² I will help my sheep, so that they shall no more be spoiled: yea, I will discern one sheep from another. ²³ I will raise up to them one only shepherd: even my servant David. He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. ²⁴ I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David shall be their prince: Even I the LORD have spoken it. ²⁵ Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them, and drive all evil beasts out of the land: so that they may dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. ²⁶ Good fortune and prosperity will I give them, and unto all that be round about my hill. A prosperous shower and rain will I send them in due season, ²⁷ that the trees in the wood may bring forth their fruits, and the ground her increase. They shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD: which have broken their yoke, and delivered them out of the hands of those that held them in subjection. ²⁸ They shall no more be spoiled of the Heathen, nor devoured with the beasts of the land: but safely shall they dwell, and no man shall fray them. ²⁹ I will set up an excellent plant for them, so that they shall suffer no more hunger in the land, neither bear the reproof of the Heathen anymore. ³⁰ Thus shall they understand, that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, sayeth the LORD God. ³¹ Ye men are my flock; ye are the sheep of my pasture: and I am your God, sayeth the LORD God.'"

⁴ "What man of you having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them doth not leave ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find him? ⁵ And when he hath found him, he putteth him on his shoulders with joy: ⁶ And as soon as he cometh home he calleth together his lovers, and neighbours saying unto them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.'

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. ¹² An hired servant which is not the shepherd, neither the sheep are his own, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hired servant flyeth because he is a hired servant, and careth not for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am that good shepherd, and know mine, and am known of mine. ¹⁵ As my father knoweth me: even so know I my father. And I give my life for the sheep, ¹⁶ and other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also must I bring, that they may hear my voice. And that there may be one flock, and one shepherd. ¹⁷ Therefore doth my father love me: because I put my life from me, that I might take it again. ¹⁸ No man taketh it from me: but I put it away of myself. I have power to put it from me, and power I have to take it again. This commandment have I received of my father." ¹⁹ And there was a dissension among the Jews for these sayings, ²⁰ and many of them said, "He hath the devil, and is mad: why hear ye him?" ²¹ Others said, "These are not the words of him that hath the devil: Can the devil open the eyes of the blind?" ²² And it was at Jerusalem, the feast of the dedication, and it was the winter: ²³ And Jesus walked in Solomon's porch. ²⁴ Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, "How long dost thou make us doubt? If thou be Christ, tell us plainly." ²⁵ Jesus answered them, "I told you and ye believe not: The works that I do in my father's name, they bear witness of me: ²⁶ but ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep. As I said unto you, ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My father which gave them me, is greater than all men; and no man is able to take them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ And I and my father are one." ³¹ Then the Jews again took up stones, to stone him withal. ³² Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my father: for which of them will ye stone me?" ³³ The Jews answered him saying, "For thy good works' sake we stone thee not: but for thy blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." ³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I have say ye are gods?' ³⁵ If he called them gods unto whom the word of God was spoken — and the scripture cannot be broken - ³⁶ say ye then to him, whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, 'Thou blasphemest, because I said I am the son of God?' ³⁷ If I do not the works of my father, believe me not. ³⁸ But if I do: though ye believe not me, yet believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him." ³⁹ Again they went about to take him, but he escaped out of their hands, ⁴⁰ and went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John before had baptised, and there abode. ⁴¹ And many resorted unto him, and said, "John did no miracle: But all things that John spake of this man are true." ⁴² And many believed on him there.

¹⁵ The LORD said unto Moses, "Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.

¹⁹ And the angel of God which went before the host of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the clouden pillar that was before them removed and stood behind them ²⁰ and went between the host of the Egyptians and the host of Israel. It was a dark cloud, and gave light by night: so that all the night long the one could not come at the other.

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

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

¹⁵ But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew them in the reed sea! For his mercy endureth forever.

²⁹ By faith they passed through the reed sea as by dry land, which when the Egyptians had assayed to do, they were drowned.

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

³ For they got not the land in possession through their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them — But thy righthand, thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

¹⁶ Why hop ye so, ye high hills? This is God's hill, in the which it pleaseth him to dwell. Yea, the LORD will abide in it forever.

⁹ No man shall do evil to another, no man shall destroy another, in all the hill of my Sanctuary. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, even as though the water of the sea flowed over the earth.

¹⁶ O LORD, and done wickedly against all thy righteousness: Yet let thy wrathful displeasure be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy hill. And why? For our sins' sake, and for the wickedness of our forefathers is Jerusalem and thy people abhorred, of all them that are about us. ¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his intercession. O let thy face shine over thy Sanctuary, that lieth waste. ¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hearken; at the least for thine own sake, open thine eyes. Behold how we be desolated: yea, and the city also, which is called after thy name. For we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousnesses, no, but only in thy great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O forgive Lord; O Lord consider, tarry not over long: but for thine own sake do it. O my God: for thy city and thy people is called after thy name." ²⁰ As I was yet speaking at my prayers, knowledging mine own sins, and the sins of my people, making so mine intercession before the LORD my God, for the holy hill's sake of my God:

⁴⁵ The tents of his palace shall he pitch betwixt the two seas, upon the hill of the noble Sanctuary, for he shall come to the end of it, and then shall no man help him.

¹⁴ which is the earnest of our inheritance, to redeem the possession purchased, and that unto the laud of his glory.

⁵⁴ And ye shall divide the inheritance of the land by lot among your kindreds, and give to the more the more inheritance, and to the fewer the less inheritance. And your inheritance shall be in the tribes of your fathers, in the place where every man's lot falleth.

¹⁰ And when the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give thee with great and goodly cities which thou buildst not, ¹¹ and houses full of all manner goods which thou filledst not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, and vines and olive trees which thou planted not; and when thou hast eaten, and art full: ¹² Then beware, lest thou forget the LORD which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.

¹ And Jericho shut in her people, and was shut for fear of the children of Israel, so that no man went out or in. ² And the LORD said unto Joshua, "Behold, I have given into thine hand, Jericho and her king and the men of war. ³ And ye shall compass the city, all that be men of war, and go round about it once: and so shall you do six days. ⁴ And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. And the seventh day, ye shall compass the city seven times and the priests shall blow with their trumpets. ⁵ And when there is a long blast blown with the ram's horn, as soon as ye hear the sound of the horn, let all the people shout a mighty shout. And then shall the walls of the city fall down, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him." ⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun called unto the priests, and said unto them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD." ⁷ And he said unto the people, "Go and compass the city: And let the men of arms go before the ark of the LORD." ⁸ And when Joshua had spoken unto the people, the seven priests that bare the seven trumpets of rams horns before the ark of the LORD went forth and blew with the horns, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed after them. ⁹ And the men of arms went before the priests that blew with the horns, and the common people came after the ark: and as they went, they blew with the horns. ¹⁰ And Joshua commanded the people, saying, "Shout not nor let your voice be heard, or any word proceed out of your mouths, until the day I bid you shout: and then shout." ¹¹ And so the ark of the LORD compassed the city and went about it once: and then they returned unto the host and lodged there. ¹² And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD, ¹³ and seven priests bare seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD, and as they went, blew with the horns. And the men of arms went before them, and the common people came after the ark of the LORD: and as they went, they blew with the horns. ¹⁴ And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned again into the host, and so they did six days long. ¹⁵ And the seventh day they rose early: even with the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only that they compassed the city seven times. ¹⁶ And at the seventh time, the priests blew with the horns, and Joshua said unto the people, "Shout! For the LORD hath given you the city. ¹⁷ But the city shall be excommunicate, both it and all that is therein, unto the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, both she and all that is with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. ¹⁸ And in any wise beware of the excommunicate things, lest ye make yourselves excommunicate. For if you take of the excommunicate things, so shall you make the host of Israel excommunicate and shall trouble it. ¹⁹ But all the silver, gold, vessels of brass and iron shall be holy unto the LORD and shall go into his treasury." ²⁰ And the people cried, and blew with horns: for when the people heard the sound of the horns, they shouted a great shout. And the walls fell down, and the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and took the city. ²¹ And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox, sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword.

⁷ Now therefore divide this land to inherit, unto the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh."

⁵¹ These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the ancient fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and so made an end of dividing the country.

⁴ Behold, I have appointed these nations that remain to be the inheritance of your tribes: even from Jordan, and all the nations that I have destroyed, even unto the great sea.

²² And thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and partest them according to their portions, so that they possessed the land of Sihon king of Heshbon, and the land of Og the king of Bashan. ²³ And their children multipliedest thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land whereof thou hadst spoken unto their fathers, that they should go in to it, and have it in possession. ²⁴ And the children went in, and possessed the land, and thou subduedest before them the inhabiters of the land, even the Cananites, and gavest them into their hand, and their kings and the people of the land, that they might do with them what they would. ²⁵ And they won their strong cities, and a fat land, and took possession of houses that were full of all manner goods, wells digged out, vineyards, olive gardens, and many fruitful trees: and they ate and were filled, and became fat, and lived in wealth through thy great goodness.

² How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.

⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the Heathen; where they took the labours of the people in possession, ⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹⁰ He smote divers nations, and slew mighty kings - ¹¹ Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, the king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan - ¹² and gave their land for a heritage, for a heritage unto Israel his people.

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.

¹⁶ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring after strange gods of the land whither they go and will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them. ¹⁷ And then my wrath will wax hot against them, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed. And when much adversity and tribulation is come upon them, then they will say, 'Because our God is not among us, ¹⁸ these tribulations are come upon us.' But I will hide my face that same time for all the evil's sake which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto strange gods. ¹⁹ Now, therefore, write ye this song, and teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouths — that this song may be my witness unto the children of Israel. ²⁰ For when I have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that runneth with milk and honey, then they will eat and fill themselves and wax fat and turn unto strange gods and serve them and rail on me and break my covenant.

¹⁵ "And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him. ¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him. ¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not. ¹⁸ Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgot God that made thee. ¹⁹ And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters. ²⁰ And he said, 'I will hide my face from them and will see what their end shall be. For they are a froward generation, and children in whom is no faith. ²¹ They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

⁷ For the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God which brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and feared other gods. ⁸ And they walked in the ordinance of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel, and in the things which the kings of Israel had made. ⁹ And the children of Israel wrapped themselves in things that were not well toward the LORD their God. And they built them Hill altars in all their cities, both in the towers where they kept watch and also in the strong towns. ¹⁰ And they made them images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ And there they sacrificed in the Hill altars, as did the heathen which the LORD carried away at their coming, and wrought wicked deeds, to anger the LORD withal. ¹² And they served Idols, whereof the LORD had said to them, "Ye shall not do so." ¹³ And the LORD testified to Israel and to Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, "Turn from your wicked ways and keep my commandments and mine ordinances according to all the laws which I commanded your fathers, and as I sent to you by my servants the prophets." ¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the necks of their fathers that did not believe the LORD their God. ¹⁵ And they refused his ordinances and his covenant that he had made with their fathers, and the witness which he had witnessed to them and followed vanity and became vain, like to the heathen that were round about them, of which the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them. ¹⁶ But they left the commandments of the LORD their God and made them Images of metal, even two calves: and made groves and bowed themselves unto all the Host of heaven, and served Baal. ¹⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters in fire, and used witchcraft and enchantments, and were sold to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, for to anger him. ¹⁸ Wherefore the LORD was exceeding wroth with Israel and put them out of his sight, that there was left but the tribe of Judah only. ¹⁹ And thereto Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the ordinances of Israel which they had made. ²⁰ Therefore the LORD cast up all the seed of Israel and vexed them and delivered them into the hands of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. ²¹ And Israel divided themselves from the house of David, and made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Which Jeroboam thrust Israel away from the LORD and made them sin a great sin. ²² And so the children of Israel walked in all the sin of Jeroboam which he had set up, and departed not therefrom, ²³ until the LORD had put Israel away out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. And so he translated Israel out of their land to Assyria, even unto this day.

²⁵ And they won their strong cities, and a fat land, and took possession of houses that were full of all manner goods, wells digged out, vineyards, olive gardens, and many fruitful trees: and they ate and were filled, and became fat, and lived in wealth through thy great goodness. ²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies.

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

¹⁵ "'But thou hast put confidence in thine own beauty, and played the harlot, when thou hadst gotten thee a name. Thou hast committed whoredom with all that went by thee, and hast fulfilled their desires: ¹⁶ Yea, thou hast taken thy garments of divers colors, and decked thine altars therewith, whereupon thou mightest fulfill thine whoredom, of such a fashion as never was done, nor shall be. ¹⁷ The goodly ornaments and Jewels which I gave thee of mine own gold and silver, hast thou taken, and made thee men's images thereof, and committed whoredom withal. ¹⁸ Thy garments of divers colors hast thou taken, and decked them therewith: mine oil and incense hast thou set before them. ¹⁹ My meat which I gave thee, as simnels, oil and honey to feed thee withal, that hast thou set before them, for a sweet savour. And this came also to pass, sayeth the LORD God. ²⁰ Thou hast taken thine own sons and daughters, whom thou hast begotten unto me: and these hast thou offered up to them, to be their meat. Is this but a small whoredom of thine, thinkest thou, ²¹ that thou slayest my children, and givest them over to be burnt unto them? ²² And yet in all thy abominations and whoredom, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth:, how naked and bare thou wast at that time, and trodden down in thine own blood. ²³ After all these thy wickednesses, woe, woe unto thee, sayeth the LORD. ²⁴ Thou hast builded thy stews and brothel houses in every place: yea, at the head of every street hast thou builded thee an altar. ²⁵ Thou hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, thou hast laid out thy legs to every one that came by, and multiplied thine whoredom. ²⁶ Thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, which had much flesh: and thus hast thou used thine whoredom to anger me.

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

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

¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law. ¹¹ They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them. ¹² Marvelous things did he in the sight of our forefathers; in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea, and let them go through it; and made the waters to stand in a heap. ¹⁴ In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night through with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth. ¹⁶ He brought waters out of the stony rock, so that it gushed out like the rivers. ¹⁷ Yet for all this they sinned more against him, and provoked the most highest in the wilderness. ¹⁸ They tempted God in their hearts, and required meat for their lust. ¹⁹ For they spake against God, and said, "Yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he? ²⁰ Lo, he smote the stony rock, that the watery streams gushed out, and the streams flowed withal: but how can he give bread and provide flesh for his people?" ²¹ When the LORD heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in Jacob, and heavy displeasure against Israel, ²² because they believed not in God, and put not their trust in his help. ²³ So he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven. ²⁴ He rained down manna upon them for to eat, and gave them bread from heaven. ²⁵ Then ate they angels' food, for he sent them meat enough. ²⁶ He caused the east wind to blow under the heaven, and through his power he brought in the southwest wind. ²⁷ He rained down manna upon them as thick as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. ²⁸ He let it fall among their tents, even round about their habitations. ²⁹ So they ate, and were filled, for he gave them their own desire. ³⁰ And they were not disappointed of their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, ³¹ the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. ³² But for all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his wondrous works. ³³ Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone. 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. ³⁶ Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their mouths, and dissembled with him in their tongues. ³⁷ For their heart was not whole with him, neither continued they steadfast in his covenant.

²⁷ "Therefore, O thou son of man, tell the house of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Beside all this, your forefathers have yet blasphemed me more, and greatly offended against me. ²⁸ For after I had brought them into the land that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made there offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet savours there, and poured out their drink offerings.

¹⁶ They turn themselves, but not aright, and are become as a broken bow. Their princes shall be slain with the sword for the malice of their tongues, such blasphemies have they learned in the land of Egypt.

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

¹⁴ for thou shalt worship no strange god. For the LORD is called jealous, because he is a jealous God:

³⁰ And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills, and overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

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

¹⁶ lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman ¹⁷ or any manner beast that is on the earth or of any manner feathered fowl that flyeth in the air, ¹⁸ or of any manner worm that creepeth on the earth or of any manner fish that is in the water beneath the earth. ¹⁹ Yea, and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars and whatsoever is contained in heaven, shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thyself unto them and serve the things which the LORD thy God hath distributed unto all nations that are under all quarters of heaven. ²⁰ For the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as it is come to pass this day. ²¹ Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inheritance. ²² For I must die in this land, and shall not go over Jordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land. ²³ Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the covenant of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. ²⁴ For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God. ²⁵ If after thou hast gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him.

² See that ye destroy all places where the nations which ye conquer serve their gods, upon high mountains and on high hills and under every green tree.

⁴ See ye do not so unto the LORD your God;

¹⁵ 'Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal — an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman — and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him. ¹⁷ They offered unto field-devils and not to God; and to gods which they knew not; and to new gods that came newly up, which their fathers feared not.

²¹ They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

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

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

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

⁷ After that, Solomon built an altar for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites in the hill that standeth before Jerusalem, and unto Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.

¹⁰ and gave him a charge of this thing that he should not follow other gods. But he kept not that which the LORD commanded him:

³¹ And he made houses of hill altars, and made, of the lowest of the people, priests which were not of the sons of Levi.

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

⁷ Confounded be all they that worship images, and delight in their idols; worship him all ye gods.

¹⁹ for lo, the voice of the crying of my people is heard from a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not the king in her?" "Wherefore then have they grieved me," shall the LORD say, "with their images and foolish strange fashions?"

³ This similitude stretched out a hand, and took me by the hairy locks of my head, and the spirit lift me up betwixt heaven and earth: And God brought me in a vision to Jerusalem, into the court of the inward port that lieth toward the north. There stood an image, with whom he that hath all things in his power was very wroth. ⁴ And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was in the same place: even as I had seen it afore in the field. ⁵ And he said unto me, "Thou son of man, O lift up thine eyes, and look toward the north." Then lift I up mine eyes toward the north, and behold: beside the port northward, there was an altar made unto the image of provocation in the very entering in.

²⁸ For after I had brought them into the land that I promised to give them, when they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees: they made there offerings, and provoked me with their oblations, making sweet savours there, and poured out their drink offerings. ²⁹ Then I ask them, 'What is that hill altar that you go to it?' And therefore is it called Bamah unto this day.

² And now they sin more and more. Of their silver, they make them molten Images, like the idols of the Heathen, and yet all is nothing but the work of the craftsmen. Notwithstanding they preach of the same: whoso will kiss the calves, offereth to men.

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

²⁰ And the LORD said, "The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceeding grievous. ²¹ I will go down and see whether they have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto me or not, that I may know."

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

⁴⁴ And yet, for all that; when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not so cast them away nor my soul shall not so abhor them, that I will utterly destroy them and break mine covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

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

⁴ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

² The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God. ³ But they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one. ⁴ Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD? ⁵ There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance;

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

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

¹ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of witness there, and the land was in subjection before them.

³ And the said man went out of his city every feastful day, to pray and to offer unto the LORD of Hosts: where the two sons of Eli — Hophni and Phinehas — were the LORD's priests.

⁴ And the people sent to Shiloh, and fetched from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts which dwelleth between the Cherubims. And there were the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas with the ark of the covenant of God. ⁵ And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the host, all Israel shouted a mighty shout, so that the earth rang again. ⁶ When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout they said, "What meaneth the sound of this mighty shout in the host of the Hebrews?" And they understood how that the ark of the LORD was come into the host. ⁷ And the Philistines were afraid, when it was told how that God was come into the host and said, "Woe unto us, for it was never so before this. ⁸ Woe unto us, who shall deliver us out of the hand of this mighty God? This is the God that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness. ⁹ Be strong and quit yourselves like men, ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men therefore and fight." ¹⁰ And the Philistines fought, and Israel was put to the worse and fled, every man into his tent. And there was a mighty great slaughter, so that there were overthrown of Israel, thirty thousand footmen. ¹¹ And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were dead.

¹² Go to my place in Shiloh, whereunto I gave my name afore time, and look well what I did to the same place for the wickedness of my people of Israel. ¹³ And now, though ye have done all these deeds, sayeth the LORD, and I myself rose up ever betimes to warn you and to commune with you, yet would ye not hear me: I called, ye would not answer. ¹⁴ And therefore even as I have done to Shiloh, so will I do to this house that my name is given unto, and that ye put your trust in: yea, unto the place that I have given to you and your fathers.

⁶ then will I do to this house, as I did unto Shiloh, and will make this city to be abhorred of all the people of the earth.'" ⁷ And the priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah preach these words in the house of the LORD. ⁸ Now when he had spoken out all the words that the LORD commanded him to preach unto all the people, then the priests, the prophets and all the people took hold upon him, and said, "Thou shalt die. ⁹ How darest thou be so bold, as to say in the name of the LORD, 'It shall happen to this house as it did unto Shiloh? And this city shall be so waste, that no man shall dwell therein?'"

³⁴ And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the glory of the LORD filled the habitation:

³⁰ And the children of Dan set them up the graven image. And Jonathan the son of Gershon, the son of Manasseh and his sons were the priests unto the tribe of the Danites, until they were carried away out of the land captive.

¹⁷ And the messenger answered and said, "Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there is a great slaughter chanced among the people, and thy two sons Hophni and Phinehas are dead, and thereto the ark of God is taken."

²¹ And she named the child Ichabod saying, "Honour is departed from Israel" — Because the ark of God was taken, and her father-in-law and her husband were dead.

⁴¹ Arise now, LORD God in thy resting place — both thou and the Ark of thy strength — and let thy priests put on victory and thy saints rejoice in goodness.

⁷ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

² Thus do I look for thee in thy Sanctuary, that I might behold thy power and glory.

⁸ Arise, O LORD, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength.

² and put themselves in array against Israel. And in the end of the battle Israel was put to the worse before the Philistines. And the Philistines slew in array along by the fields, about a four thousand men.

³⁸ But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine annointed, and art displeased at him.

⁹ Be not too sore displeased, O LORD, and keep not our offenses too long in thy remembrance: but consider that we all are thy people.

¹ And the people waxed unpatient, and it displeased the ears of the LORD. And when the LORD heard it, he was wroth, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed the uttermost of the host.

²⁰ "And so the LORD will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven,

²¹ When the LORD heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in Jacob, and heavy displeasure against Israel,

¹ Then shall seven wives take hold of one man, and say, "We will lay all our meat and clothing together in common, only that we may be called thy wives, and that this shameful reproof may be taken from us."

³⁴ And as for the voice of mirth and gladness of the cities of Judah and Jerusalem; the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: I will make them cease, for the land shall be desolate."

⁹ For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I shall take away out of this place, the voice of mirth and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride: yea and that in your days, that ye may see it.

¹⁰ Moreover, I will take from them the voice of gladness and solace, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the voice of the anointed, with the cressets:

³³ Yet will I will not root out every man of thee from mine altar, but that thine eyes may be consumed, and thy soul may be sorry. And a great multitude of thine house shall die young. ³⁴ And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: Even in one day they shall die, both of them.

¹¹ And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas were dead.

¹⁹ And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child and nigh the birth. And when she heard the tidings of the taking of the ark of God, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. ²⁰ And about the time of her death, the women that stood about her, said unto her, "Fear not for thou hast borne a son." But she answered not, nor regarded it.

¹⁸ Then said the king to Doeg, "Turn thou and smite the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and ran upon the priests, and slew that same day four score and five persons that did wear each man a linen ephod. ¹⁹ And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword: both man and woman, child and suckling, with ox, ass and sheep.

¹⁵ Look, whom he leaveth behind him, they shall die and be buried, and no man shall have pity of his widows.

²³ your bonnets shall ye have upon your heads, and shoes upon your feet. Ye shall neither mourn nor weep, but in your sins ye shall be sorrowful, and one repent with another.

⁶ Stand up, O LORD, in thy wrath, lift up thyself, because of the indignation of mine enemies; arise up for me in the judgment that thou hast commanded.

²³ Arise, LORD! Why sleepest thou? Awake, and be not absent from us forever.

²⁰ Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh, so makest thou their image to vanish out of the city.

¹³ The LORD shall come forth as a giant, and take a stomach to himself like a fresh man of war. He shall roar and cry, and overcome his enemies. ¹⁴ I have long time holden my peace, sayeth the LORD, should I therefore be still, and keep silence for ever? I will cry like a travailing woman, and at once will I destroy, and devour.

⁹ Wake up, wake up, and be strong: O thou arm of the LORD: wake up, like as in times past, ever, and since the world began.

⁶ But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids; both Ashdod and all the coasts thereof.

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.

¹² look well, that thou makest all such as be stubburn, to obey; tread all the ungodly under thy feet,

⁴⁰ And will bring you to an everlasting confusion, and into such a shame, as shall never be forgotten.

²¹ And they sent messengers to the inhabiters of Kiriathjearim saying, "The Philistines have brought home again the Ark of the LORD: come down and fetch it up to you."

² and arose and went, with all the folk that were with him of the men of Judah, to fetch away the Ark of God: upon which is called the name of the LORD of Hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.

¹⁷ And when they had brought in the Ark of the LORD, and had set it even in his place, even in the tabernacle that David had prepared for it: David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

⁸ "Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Shiloh come, unto whom the people shall hearken.

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. ¹⁸ This is the generation of Perez: Perez begat Hezron, ¹⁹ Hezron begat Ram, Ram begat Amminadab, ²⁰ Amminadab begat Nahshon, Nahshon begat Salmon, ²¹ Salmon begat Boaz, Boaz begat Obed, ²² Obed begat Jesse, Jesse begat David.

¹ And then the LORD said unto Samuel, "How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have cast him away from reigning over Israel? Fill a horn with ointment, and come: I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have spied me a king among his sons."

⁶ But now I have chosen Jerusalem to have my name there, and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

² the LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

¹² If thy children will keep my covenant, and my testimony that I shall learn them; their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore." ¹³ For the LORD hath chosen Zion, to be a habitation for himself; he hath longed for her. ¹⁴ "This shall be my rest; here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.

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.

¹ And it came to pass, the four hundred and fourscore year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, and the fourth year of the reign of Solomon upon Israel, and the second month called Ziv, that he began to build the temple unto the LORD. ² And the house which Solomon built for the LORD was three score cubits long and twenty broad and thirty cubits high. ³ And the porch that was before the body of the temple was twenty cubits long after the measure of the breadth of the house, and ten broad, even at the very end of the house. ⁴ And he made unto the house, windows to open and shut. ⁵ And under the walls of the house he made galleries round about, both round about the temple and also the quyre. And so made sides round about. ⁶ And the nethermost gallery was five cubits broad and the middle gallery six. And the third, seven cubits broad. For he made the walls without, whereon the beams lay, ever thinner and thinner, so that they were not fastened in the walls of the house. ⁷ And the house was built of stone made perfect already before it was brought thither, so that there was neither hammer or axe either any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. ⁸ And the door of the middle gallery was in the end of the house on the right side. And men went up with winding stairs into the middle gallery, and out of the middle into the third. ⁹ And so he built the house and finished it, and roofed it with beams of Cedar timber made hollow and joined together. ¹⁰ And then he built chambers over all the temple of five cubits height, and coupled the house together with beams of Cedar. ¹¹ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, ¹² "Concerning the house which thou art in building: if thou wilt walk in mine ordinances and execute my laws and keep all my commandments, to walk in them; then will I make good unto thee my promises which I promised David thy father. ¹³ And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel." ¹⁴ And so therefore Solomon built the house and finished it, ¹⁵ and sealed the walls of the house within, with ribs of Cedar tree: even from the pavement unto the roof did he seal it within, and boarded the floor of the house with planks of fir. ¹⁶ And he sealed twenty cubits in the end of the temple, both floor and walls, with Cedar, and dressed it within to be the quyre and place most holy. ¹⁷ And the first house, that is to say, the body of the temple, was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ And the Cedar of the house within was carved with knops and graven with flowers, and all was Cedar timber, so that no stone was seen. ¹⁹ And the quyre that was within the temple, he prepared to set there the Ark of the covenant of the LORD. ²⁰ And the quyre was twenty cubits long, and twenty in breadth and twenty in height. And he sealed it with pure gold, and boarded the altar with Cedar. ²¹ And Solomon sealed the house within also with pure gold. And he made golden bars run along the quyre, which he had covered with gold. ²² And the whole house he overlaid with gold until he had ended it. And the altar that was in the quyre he overlaid with gold also. ²³ And within the quyre he made two Cherubims of olive tree, ten cubits high apiece, ²⁴ and every wing five cubits long: so that from the uttermost part of one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. ²⁵ And the other Cherub was ten cubits high also: so that both the Cherubs were of one measure and one size. ²⁶ The height of the one Cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other. ²⁷ And he put the Cherubs in the middle of the inner house. And the Cherubs stretched their wings, so that the one wing of the one touched the one wall, and the one wing of the other touched the other wall. And the other two wings of them touched one another in the midst of the house. ²⁸ And he overlaid the Cherubs with gold. ²⁹ And all the walls of the house round about, he garnished with work of Cherubs and palm trees and graven flowers, both within in the quyre and without in the temple. ³⁰ And the floor of the house he covered with gold both within in the quyre and also without in the temple. ³¹ And in the entering of the quyre he made two doors of olive tree, with the upper and two side posts five square. ³² And the two doors of olive tree he graved with graving of Cherubs and Palm trees and graved flowers, and covered them with gold, and laid gold over the Cherubs and also the Palm trees. ³³ And in like manner, unto the door of the temple, he made posts of olive tree four square, ³⁴ and two doors of fir tree, and either door with two folding leaves ³⁵ and graved thereon Cherubs, Palm trees and flowers, and covered them with gold made plain by a ruler. ³⁶ And then he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone and one row of Cedar wood. ³⁷ In the fourth year of his reign was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, even in the month Ziv, ³⁸ and in the eleventh year in the month Bul which is the eighth month, it was full finished in all that pertained thereto, and fashioned as it should be in all points. And so was he seven years in building of it.

⁸ And this house which is so high, all that pass by it shall be astonished and shall hiss and say, 'Why hath the LORD dealt on this manner with this land and with this house?'

¹ And David the king said unto all the congregation, "God hath specially chosen Solomon my son which is yet young and tender, and the work is great, for the house is not for man, but for the LORD God.

¹⁹ And give unto Solomon my son, a pure heart to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies and thine ordinances, and to do all, and to build the house which I intended."

⁹ that they may prepare me timber enough. For the house which I build is great and wonderful.

⁴ And the porch at the end was as large as the house breadth, twenty cubits; and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inner side with pure gold.

⁷ He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

²⁵ Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

⁵ Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, that it never should move at any time.

⁹⁰ Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another; thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth. ⁹¹ They continue this day according to thine ordinance; for all things serve thee.

¹³ My hand is the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spanneth over the heavens. As soon as I called them they were there.

⁶ Lift up your eyes to heaven and behold the earth beneath. For heaven shall vanish away as smoke, and the earth shall wear away as a vesture, and the inhabiters thereof shall perish away after the same manner: but my salvation shall endure ever, and my righteousness shall not perish.

¹⁶ for by him were all things created, things that are in heaven, and things that are in earth: things visible, and things invisible: whether they be majesty or lordship, either rule or power. ¹⁷ All things are created by him, and in him, and he is before all things, and in him all things have their being.

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

¹ Moses kept the sheep of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he drove the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

¹⁰ But come, I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt."

¹¹ Then said Samuel to Jesse, "Are here all thy children?" And he said, "The youngest is yet behind. Behold, he keepeth the sheep." Then Samuel said unto Jesse, "Send and fetch him for we will not sit down, till he be come hither." ¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was brown with goodly eyes, and well favoured in sight. And then the LORD said, "Up and anoint him: for this is he."

¹⁵ David went and departed from Saul, to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. ¹⁶ And the Philistine came forth every morning and evening, and continued forty days. ¹⁷ And Jesse said unto David his son, "Take for thy brethren this ephah of parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the host, to thy brethren. ¹⁸ And carry these ten fresh cheeses unto the captain, and look how thy brethren fare, and set out their pledges." ¹⁹ And Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in Oakdale fighting with the Philistines. ²⁰ And David rose up early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him, and came where the host lay. And the host was going out in array, and shouted in the battle: ²¹ for Israel and the Philistines had put themselves in array, the one against the other. ²² Then David put the pannier from him, unto the hands of the keeper of the vessels, and ran into the host and came and saluted his brethren. ²³ And as he talked with them, behold, there stood a man in the midst: Goliath the Philistine by name, of Gath, which came out of the array of the Philistines, and spake of the manner above rehearsed, that David heard it. ²⁴ And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, ran away from him, and were sore afraid. ²⁵ And every man of Israel said, "See ye this man that is come forth; even to revile Israel is he come. And to him that beateth him will the king give great riches, and will give him his daughter thereto: yea and make his father's house free in Israel." ²⁶ Then spake David to the men that stood by and said, "What shall be done to the man that beateth this Philistine and taketh away the shame from Israel? For what is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should revile the host of the living God?" ²⁷ And the people answered as it is rehearsed, saying, "So shall it be done to the man that beateth him." ²⁸ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the man and was angry with David and said, "Why camest thou away, and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the malice of thine heart, that thou art come to see the battle." ²⁹ And David answered, "What have I now done? Is there any more, save a word?" ³⁰ And departed from by him into another front, and spake of the same manner, and the people answered him again, as before. ³¹ And they that heard the words which David spake, rehearsed them before Saul, which caused him to be fetched. ³² And David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail him because of him. Thy servant will go and fight with his Philistine." ³³ And Saul said to David again, "Thou art not able to go unto this Philistine, to fight with him. For thou art but a lad, and he hath been a man of war even from his youth." ³⁴ Then said David unto Saul, "As thy servant kept his father's sheep, there came a Lion and likewise a Bear, and took a sheep out of the flock. ³⁵ And I went out after him and smote him, and took it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard and smote him and slew him. ³⁶ For both a Lion and also a Bear hath thy servant slain. And this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, for his railing on the host of the living God." ³⁷ And David spake moreover, "The LORD that delivered me out of the hands of the Lion and out of the hands of the Bear, he shall deliver me also out of the hands of the Philistine." Then said Saul to David, "Go, and the LORD be with thee." ³⁸ And Saul put his raiment upon David, and put a helmet of brass upon his head, and put a coat of mail upon him, ³⁹ and gird David with his own sword upon his raiment. And he assayed to go, for he never proved it. Then said David unto Saul, "I cannot go in these, for I have not been used thereto." And put them off him, ⁴⁰ and took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of a brook and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, and in a poke; and took a sling in his hand, and went to the Philistine. ⁴¹ And the Philistine came and drew near to David, with the man that bare a shield before him. ⁴² And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a lad, ruddy and goodly to look upon. ⁴³ And the Philistine said unto David, "Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with a staff?" And he cursed David in the name of his gods. ⁴⁴ And he said to David, "Come to me and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field." ⁴⁵ Then said David to the Philistine, "Thou comest to me with a sword, a spear, and a shield: But I come to thee in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the host of Israel whom thou hast railed upon. ⁴⁶ This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth — and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel. ⁴⁷ And all this congregation shall know that the LORD saveth not with the sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and he shall give you into our hands." ⁴⁸ And when the Philistine arose and came and drew nigh unto David, David hasted and ran in array even against the Philistine. ⁴⁹ And David put his hand in his poke and took out a stone and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead that the stone sunk into his forehead, and he fell groveling to the earth. ⁵⁰ And so David overcame the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and smote the Philistine and slew him. And because David had no sword in his hand, ⁵¹ he ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of his sheath and slew him and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. ⁵² And the men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted and followed after the Philistines, until they came to the valley and unto the gates of Ekron. And the Philistines fell down dead by the way, even unto Gath and Ekron. ⁵³ And then the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines and robbed their tents. ⁵⁴ And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem: But he put his armour in his tent.

¹⁸ Now then, do it. For the LORD hath said of David, 'By the hand of my servant David, I will save my people Israel; out of the hands of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.'"

²¹ But David said again to Michal, "I thought to dance before the LORD — which chose me, rather thy father and all his kin, and commanded me to be ruler over all the people of the LORD, even over Israel.

⁸ Now therefore so say unto my servant David, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'I took thee out of a shepherd's cote from following sheep to be a ruler over my people Israel.

¹⁹ And he departed thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelve. And Elijah went to him and cast his mantle upon him. ²⁰ And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow thee." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to thee?"

¹⁹ Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, "I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ²⁰ I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him.

¹⁴ Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, "As for me I am neither prophet, nor prophet's son: but a keeper of cattle. Now as I was breaking down mulberries, and going after the cattle, ¹⁵ the LORD took me, and said unto me, 'Go thy way, and prophesy unto my people of Israel.'

¹⁸ As Jesus walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brethren, Simon which was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. ¹⁹ And he said unto them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." ²⁰ And they straightaway left their nets, and followed him. ²¹ And he went forth from thence, and saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and called them. ²² And they, without tarrying, left the ship and their father and followed him.

²² And after he had put him down, he set up David to be their king: of whom he gave reported, saying, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, he shall fulfill all my will.'

¹³ And he said unto him, "My lord knoweth that I have tender children, ewes and cows with young, under mine hand, which if men should overdrive but even one day, the whole flock would die.

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.

¹ And then Samuel took a box of oil and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, "The LORD hath anointed thee to be a captain over his inheritance.

² And thereto in time past when Saul was king over us, thou leddest Israel in and out. And the LORD hath said to thee, 'Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.'"

² And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou leddest Israel out and in. And the LORD thy God said unto thee, 'Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be captain over my people Israel.'"

⁹ O save thy people, and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance; feed them, and set them up forever.

⁶ For promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor yet from the wilderness. ⁷ And why? God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

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.

⁵ I am he that made the earth, the men, and the cattle that are upon the ground, with my great power and outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it pleased me. ⁶ And now will I deliver all these lands into the power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. The beasts also of the field shall I give him to do him service.

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

² And thou Bethlehem Ephrata, art little among the thousands of Judah: Out of thee shall come one, unto me, which shall be the governour in Israel: whose outgoing hath been from the beginning, and from everlasting. ³ In the meanwhile he plagueth them for a season, until the time that she which shall bear have born: then shall the remnant of his brethren be converted unto the children of Israel. ⁴ He shall stand fast, and give food in the strength of the LORD, and in the victory of the name of the LORD his God: and when they be converted, he shall be magnified unto the farthest parts of the world.

⁴ Thus sayeth the LORD my God, "Feed the sheep of the slaughter, ⁵ which shall be slain of those that possess them. Yet they take it for no sin, but they that sell them, say, 'The LORD be thanked, I am rich.' Yea, their own shepherds spare them not. ⁶ Therefore will I no more spare those that dwell in the land, sayeth the LORD. But lo, I will deliver the people, every man, into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: that they may smite the land. And out of their hands will I not deliver them." ⁷ I myself fed the slaughter sheep, and poor flock verily; and took unto me two staffs: the one I called 'Loving Meekness,' the other I called 'Woe.' And so I kept the sheep. ⁸ Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me. ⁹ Then said I, "I will feed you no more! The thing that dieth, let it die: and that will perish, let it perish. And let the remnant eat, every one the flesh of his neighbour." ¹⁰ I took also my Loving Meek staff, and brake it, that I might disannul the covenant, which I made with all people. ¹¹ And so it was broken in that day. Then the poor simple sheep that had a respect unto me, knew thereby that it was the word of the LORD. ¹² And I said unto them, "If ye think it good, bring hither my price: if no, then leave." So they weighed down thirty silver pens, the value that I was prized at. ¹³ And the LORD said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter" - a goodly price for me to be valued at of them. And I took the thirty silver pens, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. ¹⁴ Then brake I my other staff also, namely Woe, that I might loose the brotherhood betwixt Judah and Israel. ¹⁵ And the LORD said unto me, "Take to thee also the staff of a foolish shepherd: ¹⁶ for lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not seek after the things that be lost, nor care for such as go astray: he shall not heal the wounded, he shall not nourish the thing that is whole: but he shall eat the flesh of such as be fat, and tear their claws in pieces. ¹⁷ O idle shepherd, that leaveth the flock! The sword shall come upon his arm and upon his right eye. His arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be sore blinded."

⁶ 'And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Jewry, art not the least concerning the Princes of Judah: For out of thee shall come the captain, that shall govern my people Israel.'"

¹⁵ When they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord, thou knowest, that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him again the second time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my sheep." ¹⁷ He said unto him the third time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" And Peter sorrowed because he said to him the third time, "Lovest thou me," and said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." Jesus said unto him, "Feed my sheep.

² see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.

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

⁶ And Solomon said, "Thou hast showed unto thy servant David, my father, great mercy; according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and plainness of heart with thee. And thou hast kept for him this great mercy, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his seat: as it is come to pass this day. ⁷ And now LORD, my God, it is thou that hast made thy servant king instead of David my father. And I am a young lad and know not how to order myself. ⁸ And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a people that are so many that they can not be told nor numbered for multitude. ⁹ Give therefore unto thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, and to discern between good, and bad. For who is able to judge this, thy so weighty a people?"

²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged and feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

⁴ And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in pureness of heart and plainness, to do all that I have commanded thee, and shalt keep mine ordinances and customs:

⁵ because that David did which pleased the LORD and turned from nothing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

² When I may get a convenient time, I shall judge according unto right.

¹ {A Psalm of David} My song shall be of mercy and judgment, yea unto thee, O LORD, will I sing. ² O let me have understanding in the ways of Godliness, until the time that thou come unto me! I will walk in my house with a perfect heart. ³ I will take no wicked thing in hand. I hate the sin of unfaithfulness; it shall not cleave unto me. ⁴ A froward heart shall depart from me; I will not know a wicked person. ⁵ Who so privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy. Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomach, I will not suffer him. ⁶ Mine eyes shall look for such as be faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life, he shall be my servant. ⁷ There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house; he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. ⁸ I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land, that I may root out all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

² And on him shall light the spirit of the LORD: the spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the spirit of counsel and of strength, the spirit of knowledge and of reverence, and it shall make him savour of the fear of the LORD ³ And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes: neither shall rebuke after the hearing of his ears. ⁴ But he shall judge the causes of the poor with righteousness, and shall rebuke with equity for the humble of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall slay the wicked.

³⁶ Howbeit David, after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as it were of ourselves; but our ableness cometh of God; ⁶ which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

¹⁵ Study to show thyself laudable unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, dividing the word of truth justly.

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