Psalms 79 Cross References - MSTC

¹ {A Psalm of Asaph} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled, and made Jerusalem a heap of stones. ² The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air, and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land. ³ Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them. ⁴ We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us. ⁵ LORD, how long wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? ⁶ Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. ⁸ O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery. ⁹ Help us, O God our saviour, for the glory of thy name; O deliver us, and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake. ¹⁰ Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight. ¹¹ O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee; and according unto the power of thy arm, preserve those that are appointed to die. ¹² And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee, reward them, O LORD, seven fold into their bosom. ¹³ So we, that be the people and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks forever, and will always be showing forth thy praise, from generation to generation.

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.

¹² Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: Behold, I will bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that the ears of all that hear it shall tingle at it. ¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the squaring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe out Jerusalem, as a man would wipe a dish, and when he hath wiped it, turneth it upside down. ¹⁴ And though I leave a remnant of mine inheritance, yet I will deliver them into the hands of them that hate them, and they shall be robbed and spoiled of all their enemies: ¹⁵ even because they have done wickedly and have angered me, since the time their fathers came out of Egypt unto this day." ¹⁶ And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

¹³ And he carried out thence all the treasure of the house of the LORD, and the treasure of the king's house, and brake all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made, in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

⁴ And thereto the city was broken up: wherefore all the men of arms fled by night, by a way through a gate, between two walls hard on the king's garden: the Chaldeans lying about the city. And the king went straight toward the desert. ⁵ And the host of the Chaldeans followed after him, and took him in the desert of Jericho, all his army being scattered away from him. ⁶ And when they had taken him, they brought him to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon to Riblah, where they reasoned with him. ⁷ And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and fettered him, and carried him to Babylon. ⁸ And the seventh day of the fifth month which was in the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan servant of the king of Babylon and chief Marshal, unto Jerusalem: ⁹ and burnt the house of the LORD and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the great houses burnt he with fire. ¹⁰ And all the host of the Chaldeans that were with the chief Marshal brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

³ For the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem and merced the land in a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ⁴ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king upon Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name unto Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz his brother, Neco took and carried him to Egypt.

⁶ Against him came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon. ⁷ Thereto the king Nebuchadnezzar carried off the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon.

¹⁷ And so he brought upon them the king of Chaldeans and slew their young men with the sword in their holy temple, and neither spared young man nor maiden, neither old man, neither so much as him that stooped for age: But gave all into his hand.

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

¹ {An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? ² O think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased, and redeemed of old; the staff of thine inheritance, whom thou hast redeemed, even this hill of Zion wherein thou dwellest. ³ Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy sanctuary. ⁴ Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy congregations, and set up their banners for tokens.

⁷ They have set fire upon thy holy places, and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name, even to the ground. ⁸ Yea, they say in their hearts, "Let us make havoc of them all together." Thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land.

⁷¹ As he was following the ewes great with young, he took him, that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

¹² Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes? ¹³ The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it.

⁶ I was so wroth with my people, that I punished mine inheritance, and gave them into thy power. Nevertheless, thou showedest them no mercy, but even the very aged men of them, didst thou oppress right sore with thy yoke.

¹⁸ "Micah the Morasthite, which was a prophet under Hezekiah king of Judah, spake to all the people of Judah, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones, and the hill of the LORD's house shall be turned to a high wood.'

⁸ Moreover, the Chaldeans burnt up the king's palace, with the other houses of the people, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

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

¹⁰ {Yod} The enemy hath put his hand to all the precious things that she had, yea even before her eyes came the Heathen in and out of the Sanctuary: whom thou, nevertheless, hast forbidden to come within thy congregation.

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

⁷ for he had said unto them, "When ye have defiled the temple, and filled the court with the slain, then go your way forth." So they went out, and slew down through the city.

¹² Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.

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

² but the court which is without the temple cast out, and mete it not: for it is given unto the gentiles, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty two months.

²⁶ And thy carcass shall be meat unto all manner fowls of the air and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

³³ Yea, the dead bodies of this people shall be eaten up of the fowls of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

³ For I will bring four plagues upon them, sayeth the LORD. The sword shall strangle them, the dogs shall devour them, the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth shall eat them up, and destroy them.

⁴ They shall die a horrible death: and no man shall mourn for them, nor bury them, but they shall lie as dung upon the earth. They shall perish through the sword, and hunger, and their bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth.

⁷ For in this place will I slay the Senators of Judah and Jerusalem, and kill them down with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and of them that seek their lives. And their dead carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the field.

²⁰ Those men will I give into the power of their enemies, and into the hands of them that follow upon their lives. And their dead bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the field.

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

⁷ Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground.

¹ At the same time, sayeth the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests and prophets, yea, and the bones of the citizens of Jerusalem, shall be brought out of their graves ² and laid against the Sun, the Moon and all the heavenly host: whom they loved, whom they served, whom they ran after, whom they sought and worshipped. They shall neither be gathered together nor buried, but shall lie upon the earth, to their shame and despising.

¹⁶ and the people to whom they have preached shall be cast out of Jerusalem; die of hunger; and be slain with the sword. And there shall be no man to bury them, both they and their wives, their sons and their daughters. For thus will I pour their wickedness upon them.

³³ And the same day shall the LORD himself slay them, from one end of the earth to another. There shall no moan be made for any of them, none gathered up, none buried: but shall lie as dung upon the ground.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth: from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar:

³⁶ As it is written, "For thy sake are we killed all day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain."

⁹ And they of the people and kindreds, and tongues, and they of the nations, shall see their bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their bodies to be put in graves.

⁶ for they shed out the blood of saints, and prophets, and therefore hast thou given them blood to drink: for they are worthy."

⁶ And I saw the wife drunken with the blood of saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with great marvel.

²⁴ and in her was found the blood of the prophets, and of the saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth."

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

⁷ then I will weed Israel out of the land which I have given them. And this house which I have hallowed for my name, I will put out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a fable unto all nations.

¹⁹ But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, "What is this that ye do? Will ye fall away again from the king?"

¹ But when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews ² and said before his brethren and the soldiers of Samaria, "What do these impotent Jews? Shall they be thus suffered? Shall they offer? Shall they perform it in one day? Shall they make the stones whole again that are brought to dust, and burnt?" ³ And Tobiah the Ammonite beside him said, "Let them build on: if a fox go up, he shall break down their stony wall." ⁴ Hear, O thou our God, how we are despised! Turn their shame upon their own head, that thou mayest give them over into despising in the land of their captivity.

¹³ Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us. ¹⁴ Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.

⁶ Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh us to scorn.

⁴¹ All they that go by, spoil him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

⁹ And will make them to be a reproof, a common byword, a laughingstock and shame, in all the places where I shall scatter them.

¹⁸ But first the city of Jerusalem, and all the cities of Judah, their kings and princes: to make them desolate, waste, despised and cursed according as it is come to pass this day.

¹⁸ For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Like as my wrath and indignation is come upon the inhabiters of Jerusalem, so shall my displeasure go forth upon you also, if ye go into Egypt: For there ye shall be reviled, abhorred, brought to shame and confusion: and as for this place, ye shall never see it more.

¹⁵ {Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?" ¹⁶ {Ayin} All thine enemies gape upon thee, whispering and biting their teeth, saying, "Let us devour, for the time that we looked for is come: we have found and seen it."

¹ {The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion.

¹² Yea, and that thou also mayest be sure, that I the LORD have heard all thy despiteful words, which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'Lo, they are made waste, and given us to devour.'

³ prophesy therefore, and speak: thus sayeth the LORD God: Seeing ye be wasted and trod down on every side, and become a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, which have brought you into men's mouths and unto an evil name among the people:

¹⁵ And I will not suffer thee, for to hear thine own confusion among the Gentiles from henceforth. Thou shalt not bear the reproof of the nations, nor cast out thine own people any more, sayeth the LORD God.'"

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.

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,

¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him.

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.

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? ² How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart? How long shall mine enemies triumph over me?

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?

⁹ We see not our tokens. There is not one prophet more; no, not one is there among us, that understandeth any more. ¹⁰ O God, how long shall the adversary do this dishonour? How long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name? Forever?

⁴ O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people?

⁵ Wilt thou be displeased at us forever? Wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?

⁴⁶ LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire?

⁹ He will not alwayS be chiding, neither keepeth he his anger forever.

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.

⁵ Yea, even thus sayeth the LORD God: In the fire of my jealousy have I taken a device against the residue of the Gentiles, and against all Edom: which have taken in my land unto themselves for a possession: which also rejoiced from their whole heart with a despiteful stomach, to waste it, and to spoil it.

¹⁸ Where is there such a God as thou? That pardonest wickedness, and forgivest the offenses of the remnant of thine heritage? He keepeth not his wrath for ever. And why? His delight is to have compassion.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

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.

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

¹⁶ The LORD is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah. ¹⁷ The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.

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?

⁴ How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?

²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them.

¹⁸ The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, yea, all such as call upon him faithfully.

¹ This is the heavy burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos did see. ² Lift up the banner upon the high hill, call unto them; hold up your hand, that the princes may go in at the door. ³ For I will send for my deputies and my giants, sayeth the LORD, and in my wrath I will call for such as triumph in my glory. ⁴ There is a noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people, a rushing as though the kingdoms of all nations had come together. And the LORD of Hosts mustereth his army to battle. ⁵ They come not only out of far countries, but also from the ends of the heavens: Even the LORD himself with the ministers of his wrath, to destroy the whole land. ⁶ Mourn therefore, for the day of the LORD is at hand, and cometh as a destroyer from the Almighty. ⁷ Then shall all hands be letten down, and all men's hearts shall melt away; ⁸ they shall stand in fear, carefulness and sorrow shall come upon them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth with child. One shall ever be abashed of another, and their faces shall burn like the flame. ⁹ For lo, the day of the LORD shall come: terrible, full of indignation and wrath, to make the land waste, and to root out the sinners thereof. ¹⁰ For the stars and planets of heaven shall not give their light; the sun shall be quenched in the rising, and the moon will not shine with his light. ¹¹ And I will punish the wickedness of the world, and the sins of the ungodly, sayeth the LORD. The high stomachs of the proud will I take away, and will lay down the boasting of tyrants. ¹² I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth than a golden wedge of Ophir. ¹³ Moreover, I will so shake the heaven, that the earth shall remove out of her place. Thus shall it go with Babylon in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts in the day of his fearful indignation. ¹⁴ And Babylon shall be as a hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land. ¹⁵ Whoso is found alone, shall be shot through: And whoso gather together, shall be destroyed with the sword. ¹⁶ Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished. ¹⁷ For lo, I shall bring up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold. ¹⁸ Then shall young men's bows be knapped asunder. The Medes shall have no pity upon women with child, and their faces shall not spare the children. ¹⁹ And Babylon, that glory of kingdoms and beauty of the Chaldeans' honor, shall be destroyed, even as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra. ²⁰ It shall never be more inhabited; neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more; ²¹ but wild beasts shall lie there, and the houses shall be full of great owls. Ostriches shall dwell there, and apes shall dance there: ²² the little owls shall cry in the palaces, one after another, and Dragons shall be in their pleasant parlors. And as for Babylon's time, it is at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged.

¹ This is the heavy burden of the waste sea: A grievous vision was showed unto me, even as the stormy weather that passeth through at the noonday, to come from the wilderness, from that horrible land. ² Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings. ³ With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it. ⁴ My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear. ⁵ While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield." ⁶ For thus the Lord hath charged me: "Go thy way, and set a watchman, that he may tell what he seeth." ⁷ And when he had waited diligently, he saw two horsemen: the one riding upon an Ass, the other upon a camel. ⁸ And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night. ⁹ And behold, here cometh a chariot of men with two horsemen." And he answered and said, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen! She is turned upside down, and all the images of her gods are smitten to the ground!" ¹⁰ This, O my fellow threshers and fanners, have I heard of the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to show it unto you. ¹¹ The heavy burden of Dumah. He calleth unto me, out of of Seir, "Watchman, what hast thou espied by night? Watchman, what hast thou espied by night?" ¹² The watchman answered, "The morning cometh, and so doth the night. If ye will ask any question, then ask it, return and come again." ¹³ The heavy burden upon Arabia. At even ye shall abide in the wood, in the way toward Dedanim. ¹⁴ Meet the thirsty with water, O ye citizens of Tema; meet those with bread that are fled. ¹⁵ For they shall run away from the weapon, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the great battle. ¹⁶ For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, "There is yet a year according to the years of a hired servant, and all the glory of the Cedar shall fail. ¹⁷ And the number of them that shall escape from the bows shall be minished by the mighty children of Cedar: For the LORD God of Israel hath spoken."

¹ The burden of Tyre. Mourn, ye ships of Tarshish, for there cometh such destruction that ye shall not have a house to enter into. Out of the land of Chittim they have knowledge of this plague. ² Be still ye that dwell in the Isle; the merchants of Sidon and such as pass over the sea have made thee plenteous. ³ For by sea were there fruits brought unto thee, and all manner of corn by water. Thou wast the common market of all people. ⁴ Be ashamed, thou Sidon, for the sea - even the strength of the sea - hath spoken, saying: "I have not traveled, nor brought forth children, nor nourished up young men, or brought up virgins." ⁵ As soon as Egypt perceiveth it, she will be as sorry as Tyre itself. ⁶ Get you to Tarshish; mourn ye that dwell in the Isles. ⁷ Is not that the glorious city, which hath been of long antiquity? Whose natives dwelling far off, commend her so greatly? ⁸ Who hath devised such things upon Tyre the crown of all cities, whose merchants and Captains were the highest and principal of the world? ⁹ Even the LORD of Hosts hath devised it, that he may put down all pomp, and minish all the Glory of the world. ¹⁰ Go through thy land, O thou daughter of the sea, as men go over the water; for thou hast no more strength. ¹¹ He that smote the kingdoms together holdeth out his hand over the sea: even the LORD himself hat given a commandment against that mighty Canaan, to root it out. ¹² And he said, "From hence forth shalt thou make no more mirth, O thou daughter of Sidon: for thou shalt be put down. Stand up therefore, and get thee over unto Chittim, where nevertheless thou shalt have no rest. ¹³ Behold, for thine example: The Chaldeans were such a people, that no man was like them, Assyria builded them: he set up his castles and palaces, and broke them down again. ¹⁴ Mourn, ye ships of Tarshish, for your power shall be thrown down. ¹⁵ After that, shall the seventy years of Tyre - even as long as their king's life was - be forgotten. And after seventy years, it shall happen to Tyre as with a harlot that playeth upon a lute. ¹⁶ "Take thy lute," say men to her, "and go about the city, thou unknown wench: make pastime with sweet melody, whereby thou mayest be had in remembrance." ¹⁷ Thus shall it happen after seventy years. The LORD shall visit the city of Tyre, and she shall convert unto her reward, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms that be in the world. ¹⁸ But all her occupying and wining shall be hallowed unto the LORD. For then shall they lay up nothing behind them nor upon heaps: but the merchandise of Tyre shall belong to the citizens of the LORD, to the feeding and sustaining of the hungry, and to the clothing of the aged.

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.

⁴ and that for Jacob my servant's sake, and for Israel my chosen. For I called thee by name, and ordained thee before thou knewest me. ⁵ Even I the LORD, before whom there is none other: for without me there is no God. I have prepared thee before thou knewest me:

²⁵ Pour out thine indignation rather upon the Gentiles, that know thee not, and upon the people that call not on thy name: And that because they have consumed, devoured and destroyed Jacob, and have rooted out his glory.

²⁹ For lo, I begin to plague the city that my name is given unto: think ye then, that I will leave you unpunished? Ye shall not go quit. For why? I call for a sword upon all the inhabiters of the earth, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

¹ Here follow the words of the LORD to the prophet Jeremiah which he spake unto the Gentiles. ² These words following preached he to the Egyptians concerning the Host of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, when he was in Carchemish beside the water of Euphrates: what time as Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon slew him; In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah. ³ "Ye make ready buckler and shield, ye go forth to fight. ⁴ Ye harness your horses, and set yourselves upon them. Ye set your helmets fast on, ye bring forth your spears. Ye scour your swords, and put on your breastplates. ⁵ But alas, how happeneth it, that I see you so afraid? Why shrink ye back? Wherefore are your worthies slain? Yea, they run so fast away, that none of them looketh behind him. Fearfulness is fallen upon every one of them, sayeth the LORD. ⁶ The lightest of foot shall not flee away, and the worthies shall not escape. Toward the north by the water of Euphrates, they shall stumble and fall. ⁷ But what is he, this that swelleth up as it were a flood, roaring and raging like the streams of water? ⁸ It is Egypt that riseth up like a flood, and casteth out the waters with so great noise. For they say, 'We will go up, and will cover the earth; we will destroy the cities, with them that dwell therein.' ⁹ Get you to horseback, roll forth the Chariots, come forth ye worthies: ye Ethiopians, ye Libyans with your bucklers, ye Libyans with your bows: ¹⁰ So shall this day be unto the LORD God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies. The sword shall devour, it shall be satisfied and bathed in their blood: For the LORD God of Hosts shall have a slain offering toward the North, by the water of Euphrates. ¹¹ Go up, O Gilead, and bring treacle unto the daughter of Egypt: But in vain shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wound shalt not be stopped. ¹² The Heathen shall hear of thy shame, and the land shall be full of thy confusion: for one strong man shall stumble upon another. How then should they not fall both together?" ¹³ These are the words that the LORD spake to the prophet Jeremiah, concerning the host of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, which was sent to destroy the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ "Preach throughout the land of Egypt, and cause it be proclaimed at Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpenes, and say: Stand still, make thee ready, for the sword shall consume thee round about. ¹⁵ How happeneth it that thy mighty worthies are fallen? Why stood they not fast? Even because the LORD thrust them down. ¹⁶ The slaughter was great, for one fell ever still upon another. One cried upon another, 'Up, let us go again to our own people, and to our own natural country, from the sword of our enemy.' ¹⁷ They did cry, even there, 'O Pharaoh king of Egypt, thou troublous king; the time will bring sedition.' ¹⁸ As truly as I live, sayeth the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, it shall come as the mount of Tabor, and as Lebanon if it stood in the sea. ¹⁹ O thou daughter of Egypt make ready thy gear to flit. For Memphis shall be void desolate, so that no man shall dwell therein. ²⁰ The land of Egypt is like a goodly fair calf, but one shall come out of the north to prick her forward. ²¹ Her waged soldiers that be with her, are like fat calves. They also shall flee away together, and not abide: for the day of their slaughter and the time of their visitation shall come upon them. ²² The cry of their enemies shall make a noise, as the blast of a trumpet. For they shall enter in with their host, and come with axes, as it were hewers-down of wood. ²³ And they shall cut down her wood, sayeth the LORD, without any discretion. For they shall be more in number than the grasshoppers, so that no man shall be able to tell them. ²⁴ The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded when she shall be delivered into the hands of the people of the north. ²⁵ Moreover, sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will visit that restless people of Alexandria, Pharaoh and Egypt; yea, both their gods and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that put their trust in him. ²⁶ Yea, I will deliver them into the hands of those that seek after their lives: Namely, into the power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and into the power of his servants. And after all these things, it shall be inhabited as afore time, sayeth the LORD. ²⁷ But be not thou afraid, O my servant Jacob; fear not thou, O Israel. For lo, I will help thee from far, and thy seed from the land of thy captivity. Jacob also shall come again, and be in rest: he shall be rich, and no man shall do him harm. ²⁸ Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, sayeth the LORD, for I am with thee: and will destroy all nations, among whom I have scattered thee. Nevertheless I will not consume thee, but chasten thee and correct thee: yea and that with discretion: neither will I spare thee as one that were faultless."

³ And such things will they do unto you, because they have not known the father, neither yet me.

²⁵ O righteous father, the very world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

²³ For as I passed by and beheld the manner how ye worship your gods, I found an altar wherein was written, Unto the unknown God. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you:

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

¹² There is no difference between the Jew and the gentile. For one is Lord of all: which is rich unto all that call on him. ¹³ For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be safe. ¹⁴ But how shall they call on him, on whom they believed not? How shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher?

² Unto the congregation of God which is at Corinth. To them that are sanctified in Jesus Christ, saints by calling, with all that call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both of theirs and of ours.

⁸ in flaming fire, rendering vengeance unto them that know not God, and to them that obey not unto the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹ And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go your ways, pour out your vials of wrath upon the earth." ² And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth, and there fell a noisome and a sore botch upon the men, which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. 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." ⁷ And I heard another out of the altar say, "Even so, Lord God almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments." ⁸ And the fourth angel poured out his vial on the sun, and power was given unto him to vex men with heat of fire. ⁹ And the men raged in great heat, and spake evil of the name of God which hath power over those plagues, and they repented not, to give him glory. ¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom waxed dark, and they gnawed their tongues for sorrow, ¹¹ and blasphemed the God of heaven for sorrow, and pain of their sores, and repented not of their deeds. ¹² And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates, and the water dried up, that the ways of the kings of the east should be prepared. ¹³ And I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴ For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, to go out unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God almighty. ¹⁵ "Behold I come as a thief. Happy is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments; Lest he be found naked, and men see his filthiness." ¹⁶ And he gathered them together into a place called, in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. ¹⁷ And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. And there came a voice out of heaven from the seat, saying, "It is done." ¹⁸ And there followed voices, thunderings, and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great. ¹⁹ And the great city was divided into the three parts; And the cities of nations fell. And great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of wine of the fierceness of his wrath. ²⁰ Every isle fled away, and the mountains were not found. ²¹ And there fell a great hail, as it had been talents, out of heaven upon the men; and the men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail, for it was great and the plague of it sore.

²¹ to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had her pleasure of her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath until she had fulfilled seventy years.

¹³ The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it.

¹² that the Syrians shall lay hold upon them before, and the Philistines behind, and so devour Israel with open mouth. After all this, the wrath of the Lord shall not cease, but yet his hand shall be stretched out still.

¹ Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof. ² Then shall the priest be as the people, the master as the servant, the dame like the maid, the seller like the buyer, he that lendeth upon usury, like him that borroweth upon usury, the creditor as the debtor. ³ Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself. ⁴ The earth shall be heavy and decay: The face of the earth shall perish and fall away, the proud people of the world shall come to naught. ⁵ For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth; and they that dwell therein are fallen into trespass. Wherefore the inhabiters of the earth are perished with drought, and those that remain shall be very few. ⁷ The sweet wine shall mourn, the grapes shall be weak, and all that have been merry in heart, shall sigh. ⁸ The mirth of tabrets shall be laid down, the cheer of the joyful shall cease, and the pleasure of lutes shall have an end: ⁹ there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it; ¹⁰ the wicked cities shall be broken down, all houses shall be shut that no man may come in. ¹¹ In the streets shall there be lift up a cry because of wine, all men's cheer shall vanish away, and all joy of the earth shall pass. ¹² Desolation shall remain in the cities, and the gates shall be smitten with destruction.

¹⁰ The cities of thy Sanctuary lie waste: Zion is a wilderness, and Jerusalem a desert. ¹¹ Our holy house which is our beauty, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away.

⁷ All they that came upon them, have devoured them: and their enemies said, 'We have made no fault against them, for they have displeased the LORD, yea even the LORD which is the beauty of their righteousness, and that defended their fathers.'

³⁴ 'Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an empty vessel. He swallowed me up like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates: he hath cast me out. ³⁵ He hath taken my substance away and the thing that was left me hath he carried unto Babylon,' sayeth the daughter that dwelleth in Zion. 'Yea, and my blood also, unto the Chaldeans,' sayeth Jerusalem.

¹⁵ and sore displeased at the careless Heathen: for whereas I was but a little angry, they did their best that I might destroy them.

¹⁶ and in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full."

³⁴ But go, and bring the people unto the land which I said unto thee, 'Behold, mine angel shall go before thee.' Neverthelater in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them."

⁴³ The strangers that are among you shall climb above thee up on high, and thou shalt come down beneath a-low.

¹⁸ Then said she unto Elijah, "What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? Art thou come unto me, that my sin should be thought on and my son slain?"

³ For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

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

¹⁶ Hear me, O LORD, for thy loving-kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies. ¹⁷ Hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble; O haste thee, and hear me.

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

⁶ The LORD preserveth the simple; I was brought down in misery and he helped me.

³ If thou, LORD wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O LORD who may abide it?

⁶ Consider my complaint, for I am brought very low. O deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

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.

¹³ Whereas they do sacrifice, offering the flesh and eating it, the LORD will have no pleasure therein: but will remember their wickedness, and punish their sins. Israel turneth again into Egypt:

⁹ They be gone too far, and have destroyed themselves, like as they did afore time at Gibeah. Therefore their wickedness shall be remembered, and their sins punished.

³² Fulfill ye likewise the measure of your fathers: ³³ ye serpents and generation of vipers, how should ye escape the damnation of hell? ³⁴ "Wherefore, Behold, I send unto you prophets, wise men, and scribes. And of them: some shall ye kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth: from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar: ³⁶ Verily I say unto you, all these things shall light upon this generation.

⁵ For her sins are gone up to heaven, and God hath remembered her wickedness.

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

¹¹ And Asa cried unto the LORD his God and said, "LORD, it is all one with thee to help them that have no power, with few or with many: help us O LORD our God, for we trust to thee, and in thine name be come against this multitude. Thou art the LORD our God: let not man prevail against thee."

¹¹ For thy name's sake, O LORD, be merciful unto my sin; for it is great.

³ For thou art my stronghold and my castle: be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy name's sake.

³ Our misdeeds prevail against us; O be thou merciful unto our sins.

¹ Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give the praise, for thy loving mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

²⁵ Whereas I yet am even he only, that for mine own self's sake do away thine offenses, and forget thy sins: so that I will never think upon them.

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.

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

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

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

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

⁹ But unto thee O LORD our God, pertaineth mercy and forgiveness. As for us, we are gone back from him,

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."

² If ye will not hear it, nor regard it, to give the glory unto my name, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and will curse your blessings. Yea, curse them will I if ye do not take heed.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

⁷ And I will take you for my people and will be to you a God. And ye shall know that I am the LORD your God which brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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."

¹⁶ The LORD is known to execute judgment; the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. Selah.

³ My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

¹⁰ My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth, daily saying unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

¹¹ So that men shall say, "Verily there is a reward for the righteous! Doubtless, there is a God that judgeth the earth!"

¹⁷ Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more; let them be put to shame and perish. ¹⁸ And they shall know that thou, whose name is Jehovah, art only the most highest over all the earth.

¹ O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself.

² Wherefore shall the Heathen say, "Where is now their God?"

³⁵ He hath taken my substance away and the thing that was left me hath he carried unto Babylon,' sayeth the daughter that dwelleth in Zion. 'Yea, and my blood also, unto the Chaldeans,' sayeth Jerusalem.

²³ that the heathen may know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I am sanctified upon you in their sight.

²¹ I will bring my glory also among the Gentiles, that all the Heathen may see my judgment that I have kept, and my hand which I have laid upon them: ²² that the house of Israel may know how that I am the LORD their God, from that day forth.

¹⁷ Let the priests that minister unto the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and say, "Spare, Lord, thy people: and deliver not thine heritage unto rebuke that the heathen should reign over them. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where is their God?'"

¹⁰ She that is mine enemy shall look upon it, and be confounded, which now sayeth, "Where is thy LORD God?" Mine eyes shall behold her, when she shall be trodden down, as the clay in the streets.

¹⁹ Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves but give room unto the wrath of God. For it is written, "Vengeance is mine, and I will reward, saith the Lord."

²⁰ Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles, and prophets: for God hath given your judgment on her."

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

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."

⁵ "Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest."

³³ For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

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

⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; who keepeth his promise forever; ⁷ who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison;

² LORD be merciful unto us, we wait for thee. Thine arm is at a point to visit us, but be thou our health in the time of trouble.

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

¹³ Lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.

²⁰ Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

¹⁵ And the LORD said unto him, "Not so, but whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished sevenfold." And the LORD put a mark upon Cain that no man that found him should kill him.

²¹ And if ye walk contrary unto me and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

²⁸ then I will walk contrary unto you also wrathfully, and will also chastise you seven times for your sins:

¹⁶ for the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer, for the enemy and avenger.

¹⁰ O God, how long shall the adversary do this dishonour? How long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name? Forever?

¹⁸ Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy rebuketh, and how the foolish people blaspheme thy name. ¹⁹ O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the beasts, and forget not the congregation of the poor forever. ²⁰ Look upon the covenant, for the dark houses of the earth are full of wickedness. ²¹ O let not the simple go away ashamed; for the poor and needy give praises unto thy name. ²² Arise, O God, and maintain thine own cause; remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily.

³¹ But if he may be gotten, he restoreth again seven times as much, or else he maketh recompense with all the goods of his house.

⁵ If thou comest nigh them, they say, "Touch me not, for I am holier than thou." All these men when I am angry, shall be turned to smoke and fire, that shall burn forever. ⁶ Behold, it is written before my face, and shall not be forgotten, but recompensed. I shall reward it them into their bosom: ⁷ I mean your misdeeds, and the misdeeds of your fathers together, sayeth the LORD, which have made their smokes upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their old deeds into their bosom again.

¹⁸ Thou showest mercy upon thousands, thou recompensest the wickedness of the fathers, into the bosom of the children that come after them. Thou art the great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of Hosts:

³⁸ Give, and it shall be given unto you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosoms. For with what measure ye mete, with the same shall men mete to you again."

⁸ We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name forever. Selah.

¹⁷ I will remember thy name from one generation to another; therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.

¹⁸ Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy rebuketh, and how the foolish people blaspheme thy name.

²² Arise, O God, and maintain thine own cause; remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily.

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.

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

²¹ This people have I made for myself, and they shall show forth my praise.