Daniel 9 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,––who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans: ² in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived by the writings,––the number of the years, as to which the word of Yahweh came unto Jeremiah the prophet, to fulfill the desolations of Jerusalem, seventy years. ³ So I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek [him] by prayer, and supplication,––with fasting, and sackcloth and ashes;
⁴ yea I prayed unto Yahweh my God, and made confession,––and said––I beseech thee, O Lord, the GOD great and to be revered, keeping the covenant and the lovingkindness, to them who love him, and to them who keep his commandments. ⁵ We have sinned and committed iniquity, and been guilty of lawlessness and been rebellious,––even departing from thy commandments, and from thy regulations; ⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee. ⁸ O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,––in that we have sinned against thee. ⁹ To the Lord our God, belong compassions, and forgivenesses,––for we have rebelled against him; ¹⁰ and have not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh our God,––to walk in his instructions which he set before us, through means of his servants the prophets; ¹¹ yea, all Israel, have transgressed thy law, even going away, so as not to hearken unto thy voice,––therefore, were poured out upon us, the curse and the oath which had been written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we had sinned against him. ¹² Thus hath he confirmed his words which he had spoken against us, and against our judges who had judged us, by bringing in upon us a great calamity,––as to which there had not been done, under all the heavens, as hath been done unto Jerusalem. ¹³ Even as written in the law of Moses, hath, all this calamity, come in upon us,––yet entreated we not the face of Yahweh our God, by turning away from our iniquities, and by getting intelligence in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh, kept watch, for the calamity, and brought it in upon us,––for righteous is Yahweh our God concerning all his deeds which he hath done, seeing that we had not hearkened unto his voice. ¹⁵ Now, therefore, O Lord our God, who didst bring forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a firm hand, and didst make for thyself a name, as at this day,––we have sinned, we have been guilty of lawlessness. ¹⁶ O Lord! according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thine indignation turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain,––for, by reason of our sins, and by reason of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people, have become a reproach, to all who are round about us. ¹⁷ Now, therefore, hearken, O our God, unto the prayer of thy servant, and unto his supplications, and let thy face shine, upon thy sanctuary, that is desolate,––for the sake of thy servants, O Lord. ¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hearken, open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city on which hath been called thy name; for, not on the ground of our own righteousnesses, are we causing our supplications to fall down before thee, but on the ground of thine abounding compassions. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hearken and perform! Do not delay! For thine own sake, O my God, because, thine own name, hath been called, upon thy city, and upon thy people.
²⁰ And, while yet I was speaking, and praying, and confessing mine own sin, and the sin of my people Israel,––and causing my supplication to fall down before Yahweh my God, concerning the holy mountain of my God; ²¹ while yet I was speaking in prayer, then, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in vision at the beginning, wearied with rapid flight, touched me, about the time of the evening present. ²² Yea he came, and spake with me,––and said––O Daniel! now, have I come forth, to teach thee understanding. ²³ At the beginning of thy supplications, came forth a word, I, therefore, am arrived to tell, because, a man delighted in, thou art,––mark then the word, and have understanding in the revelation:–– ²⁴ Seventy weeks, have been divided concerning thy people and concerning thy holy city––to put an end to the transgression, and fill up the measure of sin, and put a propitiatory–covering over iniquity, and bring in the righteousness of ages, and affix a seal the vision and prophecy, and anoint the holy of holies. ²⁵ Thou must know, then, and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem––unto the Anointed One, the Prince, [shall be] seven weeks, and sixty–two weeks,––the broadway and the wall, shall again be built, even in the end of the times. ²⁶ And, after the sixty–two weeks, shall the Anointed One, be cut off, and have, nothing,––and, the city and the sanctuary, will one destroy with the Prince, and so will his own end come with an overwhelming flood, howbeit, up to the full end of the war, are decreed astounding things. ²⁷ And he will confirm a covenant to the many, for one week,––but, in the middle of the week, will cause sacrifice and present to cease, and, in his stead, [shall be] the horrid abomination that astoundeth, even till, a full end, and that a decreed one, shall be poured out on him that astoundeth.

²¹ Now Daniel continued, until the first year of Cyrus the king.

³¹ And, Darius the Mede, received the kingdom,––when about sixty–two years of age.

²⁸ And, this Daniel, prospered in the reign of Darius,––and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

¹ I, therefore, in the first year of Darius the Mede, was at my station to strengthen and embolden him;

²¹ to fulfill the word of God, by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had paid off her sabbaths,––all the days of her lying desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

¹ In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, to fulfill the word of Yahweh from the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh aroused the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, moreover also in writing, saying:

³ Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief!––the foe in the sanctuary! ⁴ Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens! ⁵ One used to be known according as he carried up high––into the thicket of trees––the axes; ⁶ But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down. ⁷ They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name.

¹ [A Melody of Asaph.]
O God, nations, Have entered thine inheritance, Have profaned thy holy temple,––Have laid Jerusalem in heaps: ² They have given, The dead bodies of thy servants, As food for the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy men of lovingkindness, Unto the wild beast of the earth:

²⁴ Yea, thy testimonies, are my dear delight, My counselors.

⁹⁹ Beyond all my teachers, have I shown discretion, for, thy testimonies, are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ Beyond the elders, will I show understanding, for, thy precepts, have I observed.

¹¹ Then said I––How long, My Lord? And he said––Until the time that, Cities be wasted, through, having no inhabitant, And houses––through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation; ¹² And Yahweh have far removed, men,––And great, be the abandonment in the midst of the land.

¹⁰ Broken down, is the city of desolation,––Shut up, every house, that it cannot be entered. ¹¹ There is an outcry concerning wine, in the streets,––Darkened, is all joy, Departed, the gladness of the earth. ¹² There is left in the city, desolation,––And, to ruins, have been broken the gate.

¹⁰ Thy holy, cities, have become a wilderness,––Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation!

³⁴ So will I cause to cease, From the cities of Judah, and, From the streets of Jerusalem, The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, The voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride,––For, a desolation, shall the land become.

¹¹ So shall all this land become, a desolation, an astonishment, And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon, seventy years. ¹² And it shall some to pass––When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh, their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans,––and I will turn it into age–abiding desolations.

¹⁸ [to wit, said he]––Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and her kings, her princes,––making them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a contempt, as at this day;

⁶ Then I will make this house like Shiloh,––And, this city, will I make a contempt, to all the nations of the earth.

¹⁸ Micah the Morashtite, was prophesying, in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah,––and he spake unto all the people of Judah, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––Zion, as a field, shall be plowed, And, Jerusalem, into heaps of ruins, shall be turned, And, the mountain of the house, [be] like mounds in a jungle,

⁷ Therefore shall all the nations, serve him, and his son, and his son’s son,––until the time even of his own land, itself, arrive, when many nations and great kings, shall use him as a slave.

¹⁰ For, thus, saith Yahweh,––That, as soon as there are fulfilled to Babylon seventy years, I will visit you,––and establish for you, my good word, by causing you to return unto this place.

¹ How is seated alone, the city that abounded with people, hath become as a widow,––She who abounded among the nations was a princess among provinces, hath come under tribute.

¹⁵ And it came to pass, when, I Daniel, had seen the vision,––and had sought discernment, that lo! there was standing before me, as the appearance of a man. ¹⁶ Then heard I a human voice, between [the banks of] the Ulai,––which cried out, and said, Gabriel! cause this man to understand the revelation.

¹² Wherefore, for your sake, Zion, as a field, shall be ploughed, and, Jerusalem, unto heaps of ruins, shall be turned,––and, the mountain of the house, shall [be] like mounds in a jungle.

⁵ Speak thou unto all the people of the land, and unto the priests, saying,––When ye fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh, even these seventy years, did ye, really fast, unto, me?

¹⁵ Whensoever, therefore, ye shall see the abomination desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place,––he that readeth, let him think,

¹⁴ But, when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, standing where it ought not, he that readeth, let him, think, then, they who are in Judaea, let them flee into the mountains;

³⁴ And the eunuch, making answer unto Philip, said––I pray thee! Of whom, is the prophet saying this? of himself, or, of some different person?

¹³ While I am coming, be giving heed––to the reading, to the exhorting, to the teaching:

¹⁵ And that, from a babe, those sacred letters, thou hast known which are able to make thee wise unto salvation, through the faith which is in Christ Jesus: ¹⁶ Every scripture, [is] God–breathed, and profitable––unto teaching, unto conviction, unto correction, unto the discipline that is in righteousness,–– ¹⁷ In order that, ready, may be the man, of God, unto every good work, being well–prepared.

¹⁰ Concerning which salvation, prophets––who concerning the favour for you, did prophesy––sought out and searched out, ¹¹ Searching into what particular, or what manner, of season the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when witnessing beforehand as to––The sufferings, for Christ, and the glories, after these,–– ¹² Unto whom it was revealed––that, Not unto themselves, but unto us, they were ministering them, which things have, now, been announced unto you through them who have told you the good tidings with Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven: into which things messengers are coveting to obtain a nearer view.

¹⁹ And we have, more firm, the prophetic word; ––whereunto ye are doing, well, to take heed,––as unto a lamp shining in a dusky place,––until, day, shall dawn, and, a day–star, shall arise in your hearts:–– ²⁰ Of this, first, taking note––that, no prophecy of scripture, becometh, self–solving; ²¹ For not, by will of man, was prophecy brought in, at any time, but, as, by Holy Spirit, they were borne along, spake, men, from God.

³ Happy! he that readeth, and they who hear, the words of the prophecy, and keep the things, therein, written; for, the season, is, near.

²¹ Then proclaimed I there a fast, by the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God,––to seek of him a smooth way, for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

⁵ And, at the evening gift, I arose from mine affliction, which had been accompanied by the rending of my garment and my robe,––and I bowed upon my knees, and spread forth my hands unto Yahweh my God;

⁶ Then arose Ezra from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib,––and, when he came thither, bread, did he not eat, and, water, did he not drink, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of them of the Exile.

⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and I mourned certain days,––and continued fasting and praying, before the God of the heavens;
⁵ and said, I beseech thee, O Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and fearful GOD,––keeping the covenant and lovingkindness for them who love him and keep his commandments: ⁶ Let, I pray thee, thine ears be attentive and thine eyes open––to hearken unto the prayer of thy servant––which, I, am praying before thee now, day and night, for the sons of Israel, thy servants,––and making confession concerning the sins of the sons of Israel, which we have committed against thee, both I and the house of my father, have sinned. ⁷ We have dealt, very corruptly, against thee,––and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes nor the regulations, which thou didst command Moses thy servant. ⁸ Remember, I pray thee, the word, which thou didst command Moses thy servant, saying,––If, ye, are unfaithful, I, will scatter you among the peoples: ⁹ When ye return unto me and keep my commandments and do them, though it should be that ye have been driven out unto the uttermost part of the heavens, from thence, will I gather them, and bring them into the place that I have chosen to make a habitation for my Name there. ¹⁰ They, therefore, are thy servants, and thy people,––whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy firm hand. ¹¹ I beseech thee O My Lord, let––I pray thee––thine ear be attentive unto the prayer of thy servant, and unto the prayer of thy servants who delight to revere thy Name, and oh prosper, I pray thee, thy servant today, and grant him compassion before this man. Now, I, was cup–bearer unto the king.

¹ Now, on the twenty–fourth day of this month, were the sons of Israel gathered together, with fasting and with sackcloth, having earth upon them.

¹ When, Mordecai, came to know all that had been done, Mordecai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, and ashes,––and went forth into the midst of the city, and cried out with an outcry loud and bitter; ² and went in as far as before the gate of the king,––for, none, might enter into the gate of the king, clothed with sackcloth. ³ And, throughout every province, whithersoever the word of the king and his edict came, was great mourning to the Jews, and fasting and weeping, and lamentation,––sackcloth and ashes, were spread out for many.

¹⁶ Go! gather ye together all the Jews who are to be found in Shusan, and fast ye for me––and neither eat nor drink––three days, night nor day, and, I and my maidens, will fast so,––and, in this manner, will I go in unto the king, though it is not according to the law, and, when I have perished, I have perished!

¹³ But, as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I humbled, with fasting, my soul, though, my prayer, unto mine own bosom, might return:

¹⁰ When I have humbled my soul with fasting, Then hath it turned to my reproach; ¹¹ When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by–word;

¹³ Thou, wilt arise, wilt have compassion upon Zion, Surely it is time to favour her, Surely the time appointed, hath come; ¹⁴ Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour: ¹⁵ That the nations may revere thy Name, O Yahweh, And all the kings of the earth, thy glory. ¹⁶ When Yahweh, hath built up, Zion, Hath appeared in his glory; ¹⁷ Hath turned towards the prayer of the destitute, And not despised their prayer,

¹² And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called, in that day,––for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare, and for girding with sackcloth,

¹⁰ For, thus, saith Yahweh,––That, as soon as there are fulfilled to Babylon seventy years, I will visit you,––and establish for you, my good word, by causing you to return unto this place. ¹¹ For, I, know the plans which I, am planning for you, Declareth Yahweh,––Plans of welfare, and not of calamity, To give you a future and a hope. ¹² So shall ye call upon me,––And go and pray unto me,––And I will hearken unto you; ¹³ So shall ye seek me, and find, For ye will enquire after me, with all your heart;

³ Call unto me, that I may answer thee,––and tell thee things great and inaccessible, which thou hast not known.

³⁷ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Even yet––for this, will I be prevailed upon by the house of Israel, to work for them,––I will multiply them––Like a flock––with men:

¹⁰ But, Daniel, when he knew that the writing, was signed, went to his own house, and, the windows being opened to him, in his chamber, toward Jerusalem, three times a day, was he kneeling upon his knees, and praying and giving thanks before his God, in like manner as he had been doing aforetime.

² In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three sevens of days: ³ food to delight in, did I not eat, neither flesh nor wine, came into my mouth, nor did I so much as, anoint, myself,––until were fulfilled three sevens of days.

¹³ Gird yourselves and beat the breast––ye priests, howl, ye attendants of the altar, go in and wrap yourselves for the night in sackcloth, ye attendants on my God,––for, withholden from the house of your God, are the meal–offering and the drink– offering.

¹² Even now, therefore, urgeth Yahweh, Turn ye unto me, with all your heart,––and with fasting and with weeping, and with lamentation;

⁶ And the word reached unto the king of Nineveh, so he arose from his throne, and laid aside his robe from off him,––and covered him with sackcloth, and sat on ashes. ⁷ And he caused an outcry to be made––and said––throughout Nineveh, By decree of the king and of his great men, Be it known:––Man and beast, herd and flock, Let them taste, nothing, let them not feed, and, water, let them not drink: ⁸ Let both man and beast, cover themselves with sackcloth, and let them cry unto God, mightily,––Yea let them turn, every man from his wicked way, and from the violence which is in their hands: ⁹ Who knoweth whether God himself––may turn and grieve,––and turn away from the glow of his anger, that we perish not?

³⁷ and, she, had been a widow for as long as eighty–four years,––who left not the temple, with fastings and supplications, rendering divine service night and day; ––

³⁰ And Cornelius said––Four days ago, counting unto this very hour, I was keeping, the ninth hour, as one of prayer, in my house. And lo! a man stood before me, in bright clothing,

⁸ Draw near unto God, and he will draw near unto you. Cleanse hands, sinners! Chasten hearts, double souls! ⁹ Be miserable and lament and weep, let, your laughter, into lamentation, be turned, and, your joy, into dejection; ¹⁰ Be made low in presence of the Lord, and he will lift you up.

¹⁶ Be openly confessing, therefore, one to another, your sins, and be praying in each other’s behalf,––that ye may be healed. Much availeth, the supplication of a righteous man, when it is energised: ¹⁷ Elijah, was, a man, affected like us; and he earnestly prayed that there might be no moisture, and there was no moisture on the land, for three years and six months,–– ¹⁸ And, again, he prayed, and, the heaven, gave, rain, and, the land, shot up her fruit.

⁶ but shewing lovingkindness unto thousands [of generations], ––of them who love me, and keep my commandments.

⁶ So Yahweh passed before him, and proclaimed,––Yahweh, Yahweh, A GOD of compassion, and favour,––Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and faithfulness: ⁷ Keeping lovingkindness to a thousand generations, Forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, Though he leave not, utterly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers Upon sons, And upon sons’ sons, Unto a third and unto a fourth generation.

⁴⁰ Then shall they confess their iniquity, And the iniquity of their fathers, In their unfaithfulness wherewith they had been unfaithful towards me; Yea moreover, because they had gone in opposition to me, ⁴¹ I also, must needs go in opposition to them, and bring them into the land of their foes,––Save only that, if, even then, their uncircumcised heart shall be humbled, And, even then, they shall accept as a payment the punishment of their iniquity, ⁴² Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, Yea moreover, my covenant with Isaac, Yea moreover, my covenant with Abraham, will I remember; And, the land, will I remember.

¹⁸ Yahweh––slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, Forgiving iniquity and transgression: Though he will not leave, wholly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons, Upon a third generation, and upon a fourth. ¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, According to the greatness of thy lovingkindness,––And according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt, even thus far.

¹⁰ but shewing lovingkindness unto a thousand generations––unto them who love me, and keep my commandments:

⁹ So then, thou must know that, Yahweh thy God, he, is God,––the faithful GOD, keeping his covenant and his lovingkindness with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

²¹ Thou shalt not be affrighted at their presence,––for, Yahweh thy God in thy midst, is a Go great and to be revered.

²³ and said––O Yahweh, God of Israel! Not like thee, is there a God, in the heavens above, or upon the earth beneath,––keeping Covenant and Lovingkindness for thy servants who are walking before thee, with all their heart;

⁴⁷ and they come back to their right mind, in the land whither they have been taken captive,––and so turn and make supplication unto thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely, we have been lawless; ⁴⁸ and so they turn unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who have carried them away captive,––and pray unto thee in the direction of their own land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy Name, ⁴⁹ then wilt thou hearken in the heavens, the settled place of thine abode, unto their prayer, and unto their supplication,––and maintain their cause;

¹⁴ if my people upon whom my Name is called shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will, I myself, hear out of the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

⁵ and said, I beseech thee, O Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and fearful GOD,––keeping the covenant and lovingkindness for them who love him and keep his commandments:

² And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all the sons of the foreigner,––and stood and made confession over their own sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. ³ So they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God, a fourth part of the day,––and, a fourth part, they were making confession and bowing themselves down, unto Yahweh their God.

³² Now, therefore, O our God––the GOD great, mighty, and fearful––keeping the covenant and the lovingkindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, which hath come upon us––on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people,––from the days of the kings of Assyria, until this day.

⁵ My sin, would I own unto thee, and, mine iniquity, not hide, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Yahweh, And, thou, didst forgive the iniquity of my sin. [Selah.]

¹³ Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that, against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed,––and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and, unto my voice, ye have not hearkened, Declareth Yahweh.

¹⁷ Alas! My Lord, Yahweh! Lo! thou thyself, didst make the heavens, and the earth, by thy great might, and by thine outstretched arm,––There is, nothing, too wonderful for thee: ¹⁸ Executing lovingkindness unto thousands, But recompensing the iniquity of fathers, into the bosom of their children, after them, Thou GOD, the great, the mighty, Yahweh of hosts, is his name: ¹⁹ Great in counsel, and mighty in deed,––Whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give unto every one, According to his ways, and, According to the fruit of his doings:

⁵ We have sinned and committed iniquity, and been guilty of lawlessness and been rebellious,––even departing from thy commandments, and from thy regulations; ⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee. ⁸ O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,––in that we have sinned against thee. ⁹ To the Lord our God, belong compassions, and forgivenesses,––for we have rebelled against him; ¹⁰ and have not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh our God,––to walk in his instructions which he set before us, through means of his servants the prophets; ¹¹ yea, all Israel, have transgressed thy law, even going away, so as not to hearken unto thy voice,––therefore, were poured out upon us, the curse and the oath which had been written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we had sinned against him. ¹² Thus hath he confirmed his words which he had spoken against us, and against our judges who had judged us, by bringing in upon us a great calamity,––as to which there had not been done, under all the heavens, as hath been done unto Jerusalem.

¹⁸ Who is a GOD like unto thee, taking away the iniquity––and passing over the transgression––of the remnant of his inheritance? He hath not held fast, perpetually, his anger, for, one who delighteth in lovingkindness, is he! ¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities,––Thou wilt cast––into the depths of the sea––all their sins. ²⁰ Thou wilt grant––the faithfulness to Jacob, the lovingkindness to Abraham,––which thou didst swear to our fathers, from the days of ancient time.

² A GOD jealous and avenging, is Yahweh, an avenger, is Yahweh, and a lord of wrath, an avenger, is Yahweh towards his adversaries, and, a retainer [of anger], is he to his foes. ³ Yahweh, is slow to anger, but great in vigour, He will not leave, unpunished, as for Yahweh, in storm–wind and in tempest, is his way, and, clouds, are the dust of his feet. ⁴ Who rebuketh the sea and hath made it dry, and, all the streams, hath he dried up,––withered are Bashan and Carmel, Even the bloom of Lebanon, is withered: ⁵ Mountains, have trembled because of him, and, the hills, have melted,––and the earth, hath lifted itself up, at his presence, the world also, and all who dwell therein. ⁶ Before his indignation, who shall stand? And who shall abide the glow of his anger? His wrath, hath been poured forth like fire, and, the rocks, have been broken down because of him. ⁷ Good is Yahweh, as a protection in the day of distress,––and one who acknowledgeth them who seek refuge in him.

⁷² To perform mercy with our fathers, and to be mindful of his holy covenant,––

²⁸ We know, further, that, unto them who love God, God causeth all things to work together for good,––unto them who, according to purpose, are such as he hath called;

¹² Happy the man who endureth temptation! Because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of life––which he hath promised unto them that love him.

⁵ Hearken! my brethren beloved:––Hath not, God, chosen the destitute in the world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

⁸ If we say––Sin, have we none! we are deceiving, ourselves, and, the truth, is not in us. ⁹ If we are confessing our sins, faithful, is he and, righteous––that he should forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say––We have not sinned! false, are we making, him, and, his word, is not in us.

² Hereby, perceive we, that we love the children of God, as soon as, God, we love, and, his commandments, we are doing. ³ For, this is the love of God––that, his commandments, we be keeping, and, his commandments, are not burdensome;

⁴⁷ and they come back to their right mind, in the land whither they have been taken captive,––and so turn and make supplication unto thee, in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned and done perversely, we have been lawless; ⁴⁸ and so they turn unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who have carried them away captive,––and pray unto thee in the direction of their own land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy Name, ⁴⁹ then wilt thou hearken in the heavens, the settled place of thine abode, unto their prayer, and unto their supplication,––and maintain their cause; ⁵⁰ and grant forgiveness to thy people, who have sinned against thee, even as to all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee,––and grant them compassion before their captors, so that they may have compassion upon them;

³⁷ and they come back to their right mind, in the land whither they have been taken captive,––and so turn and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and been lawless; –– ³⁸ and so turn unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captive,––and shall pray in the direction of their own land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and the city which thou hast chosen, and unto the house which I have built for thy Name, ³⁹ then wilt thou hear out of the heavens––out of the settled place of thine abode––their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause,––and forgive thy people, that wherein they sinned against thee?

⁶ and said, O my God, I turn pale and am ashamed, to lift up, O my God, my face unto thee,––for, our iniquities, have multiplied above the head, and our guilt hath magnified itself unto the heavens.

⁶ Let, I pray thee, thine ears be attentive and thine eyes open––to hearken unto the prayer of thy servant––which, I, am praying before thee now, day and night, for the sons of Israel, thy servants,––and making confession concerning the sins of the sons of Israel, which we have committed against thee, both I and the house of my father, have sinned. ⁷ We have dealt, very corruptly, against thee,––and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes nor the regulations, which thou didst command Moses thy servant. ⁸ Remember, I pray thee, the word, which thou didst command Moses thy servant, saying,––If, ye, are unfaithful, I, will scatter you among the peoples:

³³ But, thou, art righteous, as to all that hath fallen upon us,––for, faithfulness, hast thou wrought, whereas, we, have been lawless; ³⁴ and, our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law,––nor given heed unto thy commandments, or unto thy testimonies, wherewith thou hast testified against them.

²¹ For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;

⁶ We have sinned––with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness;

¹⁰² From thy regulations, have I not turned aside, for, thou, hast directed me.

⁶ We all, like sheep, had gone astray, Every man––to his way, had we burned,––And, Yahweh! caused to light upon him, The guilt of, us all!

¹³ Transgressing, and denying Yahweh, And turning away from following our God,––Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving, and muttering from the heart, words of falsehood.

⁵ Yet didst thou meet, Him who was rejoicing, and working righteousness, Even them who, in thy ways, remembered thee,––Lo! thou, hast been vexed, And truly we had sinned, Among them, was [the prospect of] an age [to come], That we might be saved.
⁶ But we have become as one unclean, all of us, And, as a garment polluted, were all our righteous doings,––And so we faded like a leaf, all of us, And, our iniquity, as a wind, carried us away; ⁷ And there was none, To call upon thy Name, To rouse himself to lay firm hold on thee,––For thou hadst hidden thy face from us, And hadst made us despond, by means of our iniquity.

²⁵ We must lie down in our shame, And our reproach, be our covering, For, against Yahweh our God, have we sinned, We, and our fathers, from our youth, even until this day,––Neither have we hearkened, unto the voice of Yahweh our God.

⁷ Though, our iniquities, have testified against us, O Yahweh, effectually work thou, for the sake of thy Name,––For our apostasies have abounded, Against thee, have we sinned.

²⁰ See, O Yahweh, that I am in distress, Mine inward parts, are in ferment, My heart is turned within me, for I have obstinately rebelled,––Without, bereaveth the sword, Within, is like death,

⁹ Then shall they who have escaped of you remember, me, among the nations whither they have been carried captive, In that I have broken their adulterous heart, which hath turned aside from me, And their eyes which have adulterously gone after their manufactured gods, So shall they become loathsome in their own sight, for the wicked things which they have done in all their abominations.

¹¹ yea, all Israel, have transgressed thy law, even going away, so as not to hearken unto thy voice,––therefore, were poured out upon us, the curse and the oath which had been written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we had sinned against him.

¹⁵ Now, therefore, O Lord our God, who didst bring forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a firm hand, and didst make for thyself a name, as at this day,––we have sinned, we have been guilty of lawlessness.

² The beginning of the word of Yahweh with Hosea, was,––that Yahweh said unto Hosea, Go take thee a woman of unchastity, and the children of unchastity, for, unchastely indeed, hath the land been going away from following Yahweh.

⁷ From the days of your fathers, have ye departed from my statutes, and not observed them, Return ye unto me, that I may return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts. And yet ye say, Wherein shall we return?

¹² Be taking heed, brethren, lest at any time, there shall be in any one of you, a wicked heart of unbelief, in revolting from a Living God.

¹³ And Yahweh testified against Israel and against Judah, through all his prophets––every one who had a vision, saying––Turn ye from your wicked ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers; and which I sent unto you through my servants the prophets. ¹⁴ Howbeit they hearkened not,––but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who trusted not in Yahweh their God;

¹⁰ And Yahweh spake unto Manasseh and unto his people, but they did not give ear.

¹⁵ And, though Yahweh God of their fathers sent unto them through his messengers, zealously sending them,––because he had compassion upon his people and upon his habitation, ¹⁶ yet became they mockers of the messengers of God, and despisers of his words, and mimics of his prophets,––until the mounting up of the wrath of Yahweh against his people, until there was no healing.

⁷ Since the days of our fathers, we, have been in great guilt, until this day,––and, for our iniquities, have we been given up––we, our kings, our priests,––into the hand of the kings of the lands, by sword and by captivity and by spoiling and by a turning pale of face, as at this day.

³⁴ and, our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law,––nor given heed unto thy commandments, or unto thy testimonies, wherewith thou hast testified against them.

¹⁰ Who have said to, the seers, Ye must not, see! To the prophets, Ye must not prophesy to us reproofs! Speak to us smooth things, Prophesy delusions: ¹¹ Depart ye from the way, Turn aside from the path,––Desist, from setting before us, the, Holy One of Israel.

¹⁶ Thus, saith Yahweh––Stand ye at the ways––and see, And ask for the paths of age–past times, Where is the good, way? And walk therein, And ye shall find rest, to your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein]! ¹⁷ Therefore will I raise up over you, watchmen, Give ye heed to the sound of a horn,––But they said, We will not give heed!

¹³ Now, therefore––Because ye have done all these deeds, Declareth Yahweh,––And though, I, spake unto you, betimes, speaking, Yet ye hearkened not, And though I cried unto you, Yet ye answered not,

²⁵ Ever since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, until this day, Have I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, Daily, betimes, sending them; ²⁶ Yet they hearkened not unto me, Neither inclined their ear,––But stiffened their neck, They did more wickedly than their fathers.

³ From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, even until this day, the which is the twenty–third year, hath the word of Yahweh come, unto me; and I have spoken unto you, betimes, speaking, yet have ye not hearkened. ⁴ And Yahweh sent, unto you, all his servants the prophets, betimes, sending, though ye hearkened not, neither inclined ye your ear, to hear: ⁵ saying,––Return, I pray you, every one from his wicked, way and from the wickedness of your doings, So shall ye remain on the soil which Yahweh hath given, to you and to your fathers,––even from age to age; ⁶ But do not go away after other, gods, to serve them, and to bow down to them,––So shall ye not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will not bring calamity upon you; ⁷ Howbeit ye hearkened not unto me, Declareth Yahweh,––that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, unto your own hurt.

⁵ To hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets, whom I, am sending unto you, even, betimes, sending, though ye have not hearkened,

¹⁹ Because they hearkened not unto my words, Declareth Yahweh,––which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, betimes, sending them, yet hearkened they not, Declareth Yahweh.

³² because of all the wickedness of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ³³ Thus have they turned unto me the back, and not the face,––Though I instructed them, betimes, instructing them, Yet have they not, been hearkening, to receive correction;

⁴ yet I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, betimes, sending them, saying, Do not, I pray you, commit this abominable thing, which I hate! ⁵ but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, by turning from their wickedness,––so as not to burn incense to other, gods.

¹⁶ As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to hearken unto thee;

¹⁰ and have not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh our God,––to walk in his instructions which he set before us, through means of his servants the prophets;

⁴ Do not become like your fathers, unto whom the former prophets, proclaimed, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Return, I pray you, from your wicked ways, and from your wicked practices; but they heard not, nor hearkened unto me, declareth Yahweh. ⁵ Your fathers, where are they? and, the prophets, to times age–abiding, do they live? ⁶ Howbeit, as for my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and so they returned and said, Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our practices, So hath he dealt with us?

⁸ And the word of Yahweh came unto Zechariah, saying: ⁹ Thus, spake Yahweh of hosts, saying,––With true justice, give ye judgment, and, lovingkindness and compassions, observe ye, one with another; ¹⁰ And, the widow and the fatherless, the sojourner and the humbled, do not ye oppress,––and, wickedness between one man and another, do not ye devise in your hearts. ¹¹ Howbeit they refused to give heed, but put forth a rebellious shoulder,––and, their ears, made they hard of hearing, that they might not hear; ¹² and, their heart, turned they into adamant, that they might not hear the law, nor the words which Yahweh of hosts sent by his spirit, through the former prophets,––and so there came great wrath from Yahweh of hosts.

³⁴ And, when the season of fruits drew near, He sent forth his servants unto the husbandmen to receive his fruits. ³⁵ And the husbandmen, taking his servants, one, indeed, they beat, and, another, slew,––and, another, stoned. ³⁶ Again, sent he forth other servants, more than the first, and they did unto them, likewise. ³⁷ Afterwards, however, he sent forth unto them his son, saying,––They will pay deference unto my son! ³⁸ But, the husbandmen, seeing the son, said among themselves,––This, is, the heir: Come on! Let us slay him, and have his inheritance. ³⁹ And, taking him, they cast him forth outside the vineyard,––and slew him. ⁴⁰ When therefore the master of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

³⁷ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! that slayeth the prophets, and stoneth them that have been sent unto her,––how often, would I have gathered thy children, like as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings,––and ye would not!

¹⁰ And, in due season, he sent unto the husbandmen, a servant, that, of the fruit of the vineyard, they might give him; but, the husbandmen, having beaten him, sent him away empty. ¹¹ And he, further, sent another servant; but, they, beating, that one also, and dishonouring him, sent him away, empty. ¹² And he, further, sent, a third; but, they, bruising, this one also, thrust him out.

⁵¹ Ye stiff–necked and uncircumcised in hearts and in ears, ye, always, against the Holy Spirit, do strive! As your fathers, ye also: ⁵² Which of the prophets, did not your fathers persecute? Yea they slew them who declared beforehand concerning the coming of the Righteous One––of whom, now, ye, have become, betrayers and murderers!

²⁷ For, they who were dwelling in Jerusalem, and their rulers, not recognising him, have, by judging him, fulfilled, the very voices of the prophets which every sabbath are being read;

¹⁵ Who have both slain the, Lord, Jesus––and the prophets, and, us, have persecuted, and, unto God, are displeasing, and, unto all men, are contrary,–– ¹⁶ Hindering us from speaking, unto the nations, that they might be saved, to the filling up of their own sins, continually; but anger hath overtaken them at length.

³³ When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare, after you, a sword. Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation. ³⁴ Then, shall the land be paid her sabbaths, All the days she lieth desolate, While, ye, are in the land of your foes,––Then, shall the land keep sabbath, And pay off her sabbaths:

²⁷ and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples,––and ye shall have left remaining of you, men easily counted, among the nations whither Yahweh will drive you;

⁴ A Rock! faultless his work, For, all his ways, are just,––A GOD of faithfulness and without perversity, Right and fair, is he!

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, did the king of Assyria capture Samaria, and carried Israel away captive to Assyria,––and settled them in Halah, and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and the mountains of Media.
⁷ And thus it came to pass that Israel sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt,––yea they did reverence to other gods;

⁶ and said, O my God, I turn pale and am ashamed, to lift up, O my God, my face unto thee,––for, our iniquities, have multiplied above the head, and our guilt hath magnified itself unto the heavens. ⁷ Since the days of our fathers, we, have been in great guilt, until this day,––and, for our iniquities, have we been given up––we, our kings, our priests,––into the hand of the kings of the lands, by sword and by captivity and by spoiling and by a turning pale of face, as at this day.

¹³ And, after all that hath come upon us, for our wicked doings, and for our great guilt––For, thou, O our God, hast spared us, punishing us less than our iniquities deserved, and hast given us a deliverance such as this,

³³ But, thou, art righteous, as to all that hath fallen upon us,––for, faithfulness, hast thou wrought, whereas, we, have been lawless;

¹⁵ All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:

⁴ Against thee––against thee alone, have I sinned, And, wickedness––in thine eyes, have I done,––That thou mayest, Be justified when thou speakest,––Be clear when thou judgest.

¹⁴ Rescue me from shed–blood, O God, the God of my salvation, My tongue should shout thy righteousness;

¹³⁷ [ZADHE.] Righteous art thou, O Yahweh,––And, equitable, are thy regulations.

¹¹ And it shall come to pass, in that day, That My Lord will again, a second time, set his hand, to possess himself of the remnant of his people,––who shall be left––from Assyria and from Egypt, and from Pathros and from Ethiopia, and from Elam and from Shinar, and from Hamath and from the Coastlands of the sea;

¹⁶ They have turned pale and, even been put to shame, all of them,––Together, have they gone into disgrace, have the makers of images:

²⁶ As the shame of a thief when he is found, So, hath been put to shame, the house of Israel,––They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their, prophets: ²⁷ Saying, to a tree, My father, art, thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back, and not the face,––But, in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!

¹ Righteous, art thou, O Yahweh, when I present my pleading unto thee,––Yet, concerning the things that are right, let me speak with thee,––Wherefore, hath, the way of the lawless, prospered? [Wherefore] have all, utter traitors, been at ease?

⁹ yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––as a reproach, and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;

⁶³ To the end thou mayest remember, and turn pale, and there be to thee, no more, an opening of mouth, because of thy reproach,––In that I have accepted a propitiatory covering for thee, as to all that thou hast done, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

³¹ Then shall ye call to mind, Your ways that were wicked, and, Your doings that were not good,––And shall become loathsome in your own sight, For your iniquities, and, For your abominations.

⁸ O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,––in that we have sinned against thee.

¹⁴ Therefore hath Yahweh, kept watch, for the calamity, and brought it in upon us,––for righteous is Yahweh our God concerning all his deeds which he hath done, seeing that we had not hearkened unto his voice.

⁹ For lo! I am giving command, and will sift, throughout all the nations, the house of Israel,––as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall there not fall a kernel, to the earth.

⁴⁰ But the other, answering, rebuked him, and said––Neither fearest, thou, God, in that thou art, in the same judgment? ⁴¹ And, we, indeed, justly,––for, things worthy of what we have done, are we duly receiving, but, this man, nothing amiss, hath done.

⁵ Now there were in Jerusalem sojourning Jews, reverent men from every nation who were under heaven; ⁶ And this sound occurring the throng came together and was thrown into confusion, because each one severally heard in his own language them who were speaking; ⁷ Yea they were beside themselves and did marvel, saying––Lo! are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans? ⁸ How then do, we, hear each one in our own language in which we were born? ⁹ Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judaea also and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, ¹⁰ Phrygia also and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of the Libya that is towards Cyrene, and the sojourning Romans,––both Jews and proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our own tongues the magnificent things of God.

²¹ What fruit, therefore, had ye then––in things for which ye now are taking shame to yourselves? For, the end of those things, is death.

²⁰ We acknowledge, O Yahweh, Our own lawlessness, The iniquity of our fathers,––For we have sinned against thee.

⁷ Jerusalem hath remembered in the days of her humiliation and her fleeings––all her precious things, which have existed from the days of old,––Now that her people have been falling into the hand of the adversary, with none to help her, the adversaries have seen her, have mocked over her sabbath–keepings. ⁸ Jerusalem, hath grievously sinned, For this cause, unto exile, hath she been delivered,––All who used to honour her, have despised her, for they have descried her unseemliness, yea, she herself, hath sighed, and turned back.

¹⁸ Righteous is Yahweh, for, against his bidding, had I rebelled,––Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men, have gone into exile.

⁴² We, have trespassed and rebelled, Thou, hast not pardoned.

¹⁶ Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land. ⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee.

¹⁷ but refused to hearken, neither kept in mind thy wonders which thou hadst done with them, but they hardened their neck, and appointed a head that they might return to their servitude, in their perverseness. But, thou, art a God of forgivenesses, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness, and didst not forsake them. ¹⁸ Yea, although they made them a molten calf, and said, This, is thy God, that brought thee up out of Egypt,––and wrought great insults, ¹⁹ yet, thou, in thine abounding compassions, didst not forsake them in the desert,––the pillar of cloud, departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go.

²⁶ But they murmured and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and, thy prophets, they slew, who testified against them that they might turn them back unto thee,––and they wrought great insults. ²⁷ Therefore didst thou deliver them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them,––and, in the time of their distress, they made outcry unto thee, and, thou, out of the heavens, didst hear, and, according to thine abounding compassions, gavest them saviors, that they might save them out of the hand of their adversaries. ²⁸ But, as soon as they had rest, they again wrought wickedness before thee,––and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, who bare rule over them, yet, when they again made outcry unto thee, thou, from the heavens, didst hear and didst deliver them according to thy compassions, many times;

³¹ Yet, in thine abounding compassions, thou didst not make of them an end, neither didst thou forsake them,––for, a GOD gracious and full of compassion, thou art.

¹² And, thine, O My Lord, is lovingkindness,––For, thou, wilt pay back unto every man––according to his deed.

⁵ For, thou, O My Lord, art good and forgiving, And abundant in lovingkindness, to all who call upon thee.

¹⁵ But, thou, O My Lord, art, A God of compassion and favour, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness a faithfulness.

⁴³ Many times, did he rescue them,––But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity. ⁴⁴ Then looked he on the distress which befell them,––when he heard their loud cry; ⁴⁵ Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;

⁴ But, with thee, is forgiveness, that thou mayest be revered.

⁷ Wait, O Israel, for Yahweh,––for, with Yahweh, is lovingkindness, and there aboundeth with him––redemption.

⁸ Gracious and compassionate, is Yahweh,––slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness. ⁹ Good is Yahweh to all, and, his tender compassions, are over all his works.

⁷ Let the lawless forsake, his way, And the man of iniquity, his thoughts,––And let him return unto Yahweh, That he may have compassion upon him, And unto our God, For he will abundantly pardon.

⁷ The lovingkindness of Yahweh, will I recall, the praises of Yahweh, According to all that Yahweh, hath bestowed upon us,––Even the abundance of goodness to the house of Israel, Which he bestowed upon them––According to his compassions, and, According to the abundance of his lovingkindness.

²² The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, verily they are not exhausted, Verily! not at an end, are his compassions: ²³ New things for the mornings! Abundant is thy faithfulness:

⁸ But they rebelled against me, And were not willing to hearken unto me, Every man, the abominations of their eyes, they cast not away, And, the manufactured gods of Egypt, forsook they not; Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them, to bring mine anger to an end against them, in the midst of the land of Egypt. ⁹ Howbeit I wrought with effect, for the sake of mine own Name, that it might not be profaned––before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were,––before whose eyes I made myself known unto them, by bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

¹³ But the house of Israel, rebelled against me, in the desert, In my statutes, walked they not, And my regulations, they rejected, By the which the man, that doeth them, shall live, My sabbaths also, they profaned exceedingly. Therefore spake I of pouring out mine indignation upon them in the desert, to make an end of them.

⁵ We have sinned and committed iniquity, and been guilty of lawlessness and been rebellious,––even departing from thy commandments, and from thy regulations;

⁷ To thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but, to us, the shame of faces, as at this day,––to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, the near and the far off, throughout all the lands whither thou hast driven them, in their treachery, wherewith they had been treacherous against thee.

² So he prayed unto Yahweh, and said––Ah now! Yahweh! Was not, this, my word, while I was yet upon mine own soil? For this cause, did I hasten to flee unto Tarshish,––because I knew that, thou, art a GOD of favour and compassion, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and art grieved over calamity.

¹⁸ Who is a GOD like unto thee, taking away the iniquity––and passing over the transgression––of the remnant of his inheritance? He hath not held fast, perpetually, his anger, for, one who delighteth in lovingkindness, is he! ¹⁹ He will again have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities,––Thou wilt cast––into the depths of the sea––all their sins.

⁶ Unto the praise of the glory of his favour wherewith he favoured us in the Beloved One,–– ⁷ In whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of our offences, according to the riches of his favour, ⁸ which he made to superabound towards us; in all wisdom and prudence,

⁴ But, God, being rich in mercy, by reason of the great love wherewith he loved us, ⁵ Although we were dead by our offences, gave us life together with the Christ,––by favour, ye have been saved,–– ⁶ And raised us up together, and seated us together in the heavenlies, in Christ: ⁷ That he might point out, in the oncoming ages, the surpassing riches of his favour in graciousness upon us, in Christ Jesus;

¹³ And Yahweh testified against Israel and against Judah, through all his prophets––every one who had a vision, saying––Turn ye from your wicked ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers; and which I sent unto you through my servants the prophets. ¹⁴ Howbeit they hearkened not,––but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who trusted not in Yahweh their God; ¹⁵ but rejected his statutes, and his covenant, which he solemnised with their fathers, and his testimonies wherewith he testified against them,––and followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were round about them, as to whom Yahweh charged them, so that they should not do like them.

¹² because they hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his covenant, all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded,––they neither hearkened nor performed.

¹⁰ But, now, what can we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, ¹¹ which thou didst command by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying, As for the land which, ye, are entering to possess, an impure land, it is, with the impurity of the peoples of the lands,––with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to the other, with their uncleanness.

¹³ And, upon Mount Sinai, camest thou down, and spakest with them out of the heavens,––and gavest them just regulations, and faithful laws, good statutes and commandments. ¹⁴ And, thy holy sabbath, didst thou make known to them,––and, commandments and statutes and a law, didst thou command them, through Moses thy servant. ¹⁵ And, bread out of the heavens, didst thou give them, for their hunger, and, waters out of the cliff, didst thou bring them, for their thirst,––and badest them go in to take possession of the land, which thou hadst lifted thy hand to give them. ¹⁶ But, they and our fathers, dealt proudly,––and hardened their neck, and hearkened not unto thy commandments; ¹⁷ but refused to hearken, neither kept in mind thy wonders which thou hadst done with them, but they hardened their neck, and appointed a head that they might return to their servitude, in their perverseness. But, thou, art a God of forgivenesses, gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness, and didst not forsake them.

⁶ and have not hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, who spake in thy name, unto our kings, our rulers, and our fathers,––and unto all the people of the land.

¹ Whereas, in many parts and in many ways of old, God spake unto the fathers, in the prophets,

¹⁴ But, if ye will not hearken unto me, And will not do, all these commandments; ¹⁵ And if, my statutes, ye refuse, And, my regulations, your souls shall abhor,––So that ye will not do all my commandments, But shall break my covenant, ¹⁶ I also, will do this unto you––I will set over you, for terror, consumption and fever, Causing the eyes to fail, and the soul to pine away,––And ye shall sow, in vain, your seed, for it shall be eaten by your foes. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, And ye shall be smitten before your foes,––And be trodden down by them who hate you, And shall flee, when no one is pursuing you. ¹⁸ And, if even with these things, ye will not hearken unto me, Then will I yet further correct you, seven times, for your sins. ¹⁹ So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze; ²⁰ And your strength shall be spent in vain,––And your land shall not yield her increase, And, the trees of the land, shall not yield their fruit. ²¹ If, therefore, ye will go in opposition to me, And not be willing to hearken unto me, Then will I yet further plague you seven times, according to your sins; ²² And will send among you the wild–beast of the field, And it shall rob you of your children, And cut off your cattle, And make you few in number; And your roads shall be silent. ²³ And, if, by these things, ye will not be corrected by me,––But will go in opposition to me, ²⁴ Then will, I also, go in opposition, to you. And I, even I, will plague you seven times, for your sins; ²⁵ And will bring in upon you a sword, that shall inflict the covenanted avenging: So shall ye be gathered into your cities,––Then will I send a pestilence into your midst, And ye shall be delivered into the hand of an enemy. ²⁶ When I have broken your staff of bread, then shall ten women bake your bread in one oven, And give back your bread by weight,––And ye shall eat, and not be filled. ²⁷ And, if, with this, ye will not hearken to me,––But will go in opposition to me, ²⁸ Then will I go in a rage of opposition to you,––And I, even I, will correct you seven times, for your sins; ²⁹ And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons,––Yea, even the flesh of your daughters, shall ye eat. ³⁰ And I will destroy your high places, And cut down your sun–pillars, And cast your carcases upon the carcases of your manufactured gods,––Thus shall my soul abhor you. ³¹ And I will give your cities unto desolation, And make your holy places dumb,––And will find no fragrance in your satisfying odour; ³² And, I, will make the land dumb, And your foes that dwell therein shall regard it with dumb amazement: ³³ When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare, after you, a sword. Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation. ³⁴ Then, shall the land be paid her sabbaths, All the days she lieth desolate, While, ye, are in the land of your foes,––Then, shall the land keep sabbath, And pay off her sabbaths: ³⁵ All the days she lieth desolate, shall she keep sabbath,––the which she kept not as your sabbaths, while ye dwelt thereupon. ³⁶ And, as for such as are left of you, Then will I bring faintness into their heart, in the lands of their foes,––So that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, And they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, And they shall fall, when no one is pursuing; ³⁷ And they shall stumble one upon another, as from before a sword, when, pursuer, there is none; And ye shall not have wherewith to stand before your foes; ³⁸ And ye shall perish among the nations,––And the land of your foes shall eat you up; ³⁹ And, they who are left of you, shall melt away in their iniquity, in the lands of your foes; Yea also, in the iniquity of their fathers with them, shall they melt away.
⁴⁰ Then shall they confess their iniquity, And the iniquity of their fathers, In their unfaithfulness wherewith they had been unfaithful towards me; Yea moreover, because they had gone in opposition to me, ⁴¹ I also, must needs go in opposition to them, and bring them into the land of their foes,––Save only that, if, even then, their uncircumcised heart shall be humbled, And, even then, they shall accept as a payment the punishment of their iniquity, ⁴² Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, Yea moreover, my covenant with Isaac, Yea moreover, my covenant with Abraham, will I remember; And, the land, will I remember. ⁴³ For, the land, shall be left of them, And shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them, They also, accepting as a payment the punishment of their iniquity, Because, yea because, my regulations, they refused, And, my statutes, their soul abhorred. ⁴⁴ And yet, even so, when they are in the land of their foes, I have not refused them, Neither have I abhorred them, To make an end of them, To break my covenant with them,––For, I––Yahweh, am their God. ⁴⁵ Therefore will I remember in their behalf, the covenant of their ancestors,––Whom, I brought forth out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God––I––Yahweh. ⁴⁶ These, are the statutes and the regulations and the laws, which Yahweh granted between himself, and the sons of Israel,––in Mount Sinai, by the mediation of Moses.

¹⁵ Cursed, be the man that maketh an image––cut or molten––an abomination unto Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall respond and say––Amen. ¹⁶ Cursed, be he that holdeth in light esteem, his father or his mother. And all the people shall say––Amen. ¹⁷ Cursed, be he that moveth back the boundary of his neighbour. And all the people shall say––Amen. ¹⁸ Cursed, be he that causeth the blind to wander in the way. And all the people shall say––Amen. ¹⁹ Cursed, be he that perverteth the right of the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²⁰ Cursed, be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath turned aside his father’s coverlet. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²¹ Cursed, be he that lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²² Cursed, be he that lieth with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²³ Cursed, be he that lieth with his mother–in–law. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²⁴ Cursed, be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²⁵ Cursed, be he that taketh a bribe to shed innocent blood. And all the people shall say––Amen. ²⁶ Cursed, be he that establisheth not the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say––Amen.

¹⁵ But it shall be, if thou do not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes, which I am commanding thee, today, then shall come in upon thee all these curses, and shall reach thee:–– ¹⁶ Cursed, shalt thou be in the city,––and, cursed, shalt thou be in the field: ¹⁷ Cursed, shall be thy basket, and thy kneading–trough: ¹⁸ Cursed, shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,––the young of thy kine, and the ewes of thy flock: ¹⁹ Cursed, shalt thou be, when thou comest in,––and, cursed, shalt thou be, when thou goest out: ²⁰ Yahweh will send upon thee cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all whereunto thou settest thy hand, that thou mayest do it,––until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ Yahweh will cause to cleave unto thee––the pestilence,––until he hath consumed thee, from off the soil, which thou art entering to possess. ²² Yahweh, will smite thee, with consumption and with fever, and with inflammation and with violent heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew,––and they shall pursue thee, until thou perish. ²³ And thy heavens which are over thy head, shall become bronze,––and the earth which is under thee iron. ²⁴ Yahweh will cause the rain of thy land to be powder and dust,––out of the heavens, shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ²⁵ Yahweh, will give thee up to be routed before thine enemies, one way, shalt thou go out against them, and, seven ways, shalt thou flee before them,––and thou shalt become a terror unto all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And thy dead body shall become food for every bird of the heavens, and for the beast of the earth,––with none to fright them away. ²⁷ Yahweh, will smite thee, with the burning sores of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids, and with scab, and with itch,––of which thou canst not be healed. ²⁸ Yahweh, will smite thee, with madness, and with blindness,––and with terror of heart; ²⁹ and thou shalt he groping about in noonday brightness, as the blind man gropeth in thick darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosper,––but shalt be only oppressed and spoiled, all the days, with none to save. ³⁰ A wife, shalt thou betroth, and, another man, shall lie with her. A house, shalt thou build, and shalt not dwell therein,––A vineyard, shalt thou plant, and shalt not throw it open; ³¹ Thine ox slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof, Thine ass stolen from before thee, and shall not be restored to thee,––Thy flock given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to save. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters given to another people, thine eyes looking on, and failing for them all the day, thine own hand being powerless. ³³ The fruit of thy soil, and all thy toilsome produce, shall a people whom thou knowest not, eat up,––and, thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed, all the days; ³⁴ so that thou shalt be mad,––for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ³⁵ Yahweh, will smite thee, with a grievous boil, upon the knees and upon the legs, of which thou canst not be healed,––from the sole of thy foot, even unto the crown of thy head. ³⁶ Yahweh will bring thee, and thy king whom thou wilt set up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers,––and thou shalt serve, there, other gods, of wood and of stone. ³⁷ Thus shalt thou become a horror, a byword, and a mockery,––among all the peoples whither Yahweh thy God will drive thee. ³⁸ Much seed, shalt thou take out into the field,––and, little, shalt thou gather in, for the locust shall consume it. ³⁹ Vineyards, shalt thou plant, and dress,––but, wine, shalt thou not drink, neither shalt thou gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. ⁴⁰ Olive trees, shalt thou have in all thy bounds,––but, with oil, shalt thou not anoint thyself, for thine olives, shall drop off. ⁴¹ Sons and daughters, shalt thou beget,––and they shall not be thine, for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees, and the fruit of thy ground, shall the grasshopper, devour. ⁴³ The sojourner who is in thy midst, shall mount up above thee, higher and higher,––whereas, thou, shalt come down, lower and lower: ⁴⁴ he, shall lend to thee, but, thou, shalt not lend to him,––he, shall become head, and, thou, shalt become tail.
⁴⁵ Moreover, all these curses, shall come in upon thee, and pursue thee and overtake thee, until thou be destroyed,––because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee; ⁴⁶ and they shall be upon thee, for a sign, and for a wonder,––and upon thy seed, unto times age–abiding. ⁴⁷ Because thou servedst not Yahweh thy God, with rejoicing, and with gladness of heart, for abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies, whom Yahweh will send against thee, with hunger, and with thirst, and with nakedness, and with want of all things,––and he, will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he hath destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ Yahweh will bring against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as darteth a bird of prey,––a nation whose tongue thou canst not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance,––who wilt not respect an elder, nor to the young, show favour; ⁵¹ then shall he eat the young of thy cattle and the fruit of thy ground, until thou art destroyed, who will not leave for thee corn, new wine or oil, the young of thy kine, or the ewes of thy flock,––until he hath caused thee to perish. ⁵² And he shall lay siege to thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou wast trusting, in all thy land,––yea he will lay siege to thee in all thy gates, in all thy land, which, Yahweh thy God, hath given, unto thee. ⁵³ And thou wilt eat the fruit of thy body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Yahweh thy God, hath given unto thee––in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy will straiten thee. ⁵⁴ The man that is tender among you, and exceedingly delicate, his eye will be jealous of his brother, and of the wife of his bosom, and of the remnant of his sons, whom be might leave behind; ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any one of them, of the flesh of his sons which he will eat, because he hath nothing at all left him,––in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy, will straiten thee, within all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, who hath never adventured the sole of her foot, to set it upon the ground, through delicateness and through tenderness, her eye shall be jealous of the husband of her bosom, and of her own son, and of her own daughter; ⁵⁷ both as to her afterbirth that cometh forth from between her feet, and as to her children which she shall bear, for she will eat them for want of all things, secretly,––in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy, will straiten thee, within thine own gates. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll,––to revere this glorious and reverend name, Yahweh thy God, ⁵⁹ then will Yahweh make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed,––plagues great and lasting, and diseases grievous and lasting; ⁶⁰ and he will bring back on thee all the sickness of Egypt, because of which thou wast afraid,––and they shall cleave unto thee; ⁶¹ even every disease and, every plague, which are not written in this scroll of the law, will Yahweh bring up against thee, until thou art destroyed. ⁶² And ye shall be left men few in number, whereas ye had become as the stars of the heavens, for multitude,––because thou hast not hearkened unto the voice of Yahweh thy God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass that, as Yahweh rejoiced over you, to do you good, and to multiply you, so, will Yahweh rejoice over you, to cause you to perish, and, to destroy you,––and ye shall be torn away, from off the soil, whither thou art going in to possess it; ⁶⁴ and Yahweh will scatter thee among all the peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth,––and thou wilt serve there, other gods, whom thou hast not known––thou, nor thy fathers,––of wood and of stone. ⁶⁵ And, among those nations, shalt thou find no ease, neither shall there be a place of rest for the sole of thy foot,––but, Yahweh will give unto thee, there, a trembling heart, and a failing of eyes, and faintness of soul. ⁶⁶ And thy life will be hung up for thee in front,––and thou wilt be in dread by night and by day, and wilt not trust in thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning, thou wilt say––Oh that it were evening! and, in the evening, thou wilt say––Oh that it were morning! because of the dread of thy heart, which thou wilt dread, and because of the sight of thine eyes, which thou wilt see. ⁶⁸ And Yahweh, will take thee back again, to Egypt, in ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt not again any more see it. And ye will offer yourselves there for sale unto thine enemies, as servants, and as handmaids, with no one to buy.

²⁰ Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, but, then, will the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy smoke against that man, and all the oath that is written in this scroll, shall settle down upon him,––and Yahweh wipe out his name from under the heavens; ²¹ and Yahweh single him out for calamity, out of all the tribes of Israel,––according to all the oaths of the covenant that is written in this scroll of the law. ²² So that the generation coming after––your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come in from a far–off land, will say––when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses thereof wherewith Yahweh hath made it sick: ²³ brimstone and salt, burning up all the land thereof, it shall not be sown, neither shall it shoot forth, neither shall there come up thereon any herbage,––like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrow in his anger and in his wrath: ²⁴ yea all the nations will say, For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land? what meaneth this great heat of anger? ²⁵ Then will men say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers,––which he solemnised with them, when he brought them forth, out of the land of Egypt; ²⁶ and went and served other gods, and bowed down to them,––gods which they had not known, and in which he had given them no share: ²⁷ therefore did the anger of Yahweh kindle upon that land,––to bring in upon it all the curse that is written in this scroll; ²⁸ and therefore hath Yahweh, rooted them out, from off their own soil, in anger and in wrath, and in great indignation,––and cast them into another land, as at this day. ²⁹ The secret things, [belong unto Yahweh our God] and, the things that are revealed, belong to us and to our children, unto times age–abiding, that we may do all the words of this law.

¹⁷ But, if thy heart shall turn away, and thou wilt, not hearken,––but shalt be drawn away, and shalt bow thyself down to other gods, and serve them, ¹⁸ I declare unto you, today, that ye shall perish,––ye shall not prolong your days, upon the soil which thou art passing over the Jordan to enter and possess. ¹⁹ I call to witness against you today, the heavens and the earth, that life and death, have I set before thee, the blessing and the curse,––therefore shouldest thou choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

¹⁷ Then will mine anger kindle upon them in that day, and I will forsake them, and will hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed, and many calamities and misfortunes shall find them out,––and they will say, in that day, Is it not because my God is not in my midst, that these calamities have found me out? ¹⁸ But, I, will utterly, hide, my face, in that day, because of all the wickedness which they have done, in that they have turned away unto other gods.

¹⁹ When Yahweh saw, he derided,––Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation. ²⁰ So he said:––I will hide any face from them, I will see, what will be their hereafter,––For, a generation given to intrigue, they are, Sons, whom there is no trusting; ²¹ They, have moved me to jealousy with a No–GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy, with a No–people, With an impious nation, will I anger them. ²² For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath,––And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains: ²³ I will heap on them, calamities,––Mine arrows, will I spend upon them: ²⁴ The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence,––And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust: ²⁵ Without, shall the sword bereave, In the inmost recesses, terror,––[To] both young man and virgin, Suckling, with man of grey hairs.
²⁶ I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory; ²⁷ Were it not that, the taunt of the foe, I feared, Lest their adversaries should mistake,––Lest they should say––Our own hand, is exalted, It is, not Yahweh, therefore, who hath wrought all this! ²⁸ For, a nation of vanished sagacity, they are,––And there is in them no understanding. ²⁹ If they had been wise, they would have understood this,––They would have given heed to their hereafter! ³⁰ Oh! how would, one, have chased, a thousand! And, two, put, ten thousand, to flight,––Were it not that, their Rock, had sold them, And, Yahweh, had abandoned them; ³¹ For, not like our Rock, is their rock,––Our enemies themselves, being judges; ³² For, of the vine of Sodom, is their vine, And of the vineyards of Gomorrah,––Their grapes, are grapes of gall, Clusters of bitter things, are theirs: ³³ The poison of large serpents, is their wine,––Yea the fierce venom of asps. ³⁴ Is not, that, stored up with me,––Sealed up amongst my treasures; ³⁵ Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on. ³⁶ For Yahweh will vindicate his people, And, upon his servants, will have compassion,––When he seeth that strength is exhausted, And there is no one shut up or at large, ³⁷ Then will he say, Where are their gods, The rock, in whom they have trusted; ³⁸ Who used to eat, the fat of their sacrifices, To drink the wine of their libations? Let them rise up, and help you, Let them be over you for a coveting!
³⁹ See, now, that, I, I, am, he that is, And there are no gods with me,––I, kill––and make alive, I wound, and, I, heal, And there, is none, who, from my hand, can deliver, ⁴⁰ For I lift up unto the heavens my hand,––And say, Living, am, I, unto times age–abiding: ⁴¹ If I whet my flashing sword, And my hand take hold on justice, I will return vengeance unto mine adversaries, And, them who hate me, will I requite: ⁴² I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And, my sword, shall devour flesh,––With, the blood of the slain, and the captive, With [the flesh of] the chief leader of the foe.

¹⁸ So Yahweh shewed himself exceeding angry with Israel, and removed them from his presence,––there was none left, save the tribe of Judah, alone. ¹⁹ Even Judah, kept not the commandments of Yahweh their God,––but walked in the statutes of Israel, which they had made. ²⁰ So Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and humiliated them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,––until he had cast them out from his presence; ²¹ for he rent Israel away from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat, king,––and Jeroboam thrust away Israel from following Yahweh, and caused them to commit a great sin. ²² And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he had committed,––they turned not away therefrom; ²³ until that Yahweh removed Israel from his presence, according as he spake through all his servants the prophets,––and so Israel was driven away from off their own soil, to Assyria, until this day.

⁴ Alas! a nation––committing sin, a people––burdened with iniquity, a seed––practising wickedness, sons––acting corruptly. They have, forsaken Yahweh, despised the Holy One of Israel,––Are estranged and gone back. ⁵ Why should ye be smitten any more? Ye would again, turn aside! The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint: ⁶ From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is in it no soundness, Bruise and stripe and newly–made wound,––They have not been pressed out, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

⁵ Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem apostatized with an enduring apostacy,––Taken fast hold of deceit, Refused to come back? ⁶ I hearkened and heard––Not aright, did they speak,––Not a man, repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done! They have, every one, turned to their course again, Like a horse sweeping on through the battle. ⁷ Even, the stork in the heavens, knoweth her appointed times, And, the turtle and the swallow and the crane, observe the season for coming; But, my people, know not the just sentence of Yahweh. ⁸ How, can ye say, Wise, are, we, And, the law of Yahweh, is with us? But indeed, lo! falsely, hath dealt the false pen of the scribes! ⁹ Ashamed, are the wise, dismayed, and captured! Lo! the word of Yahweh, have they rejected, And, what wisdom, have, they? ¹⁰ Therefore, will I give––Their wives to others, Their fields, to such as shall take possession of them, For, from the least, even unto the greatest, Every one, is, wholly given to extortion: From the prophet, even unto the priest, Every one, dealeth, falsely.

²⁶ Upon Egypt and upon Judah, And upon Edom, and upon the sons of Ammon, And upon Moab, And upon all the clipped beards, The dwellers in the desert,––For, all the nations, are uncircumcised, And, all the house of Israel, are uncircumcised, in heart.

²⁶ Her priests, have done violence to my law, And have profaned my holy things, Between the hallowed and the common, have they put no difference, And, between the unclean and clean, have they not taught men to discern,––And, from my sabbaths, have they hid their eyes, So that I have been profaned in their midst. ²⁷ Her rulers within her, have been like wolves, rending prey,––In shedding blood, In destroying lives, For the sake of getting dishonest gain. ²⁸ And, her prophets, have coated it for them with whitewash, Seeing visions of falsehood, And divining for them lies,––Saying, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land, have exacted oppression, and seized plunder,––Even, the afflicted and the needy, have they maltreated, And, the sojourner, have they oppressed, without justice. ³⁰ Then sought I from among them, a man, Who could build up a wall, And stand in the breach, before me in behalf of the land, So that I might not destroy her,––But I found none. ³¹ Therefore have I poured out upon them mine indignation, In the fire of mine outburst, have I consumed them,––Their way, upon their own head, have I placed, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

⁹ Wilt thou, then, give unto thy servant, a heart that hearkeneth, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad,––for who is able to judge this thine honoured people?

¹⁷ Who leadeth away counselors [as] a spoil, and, judges, He befooleth:

¹⁰ Now, therefore, ye kings, show your prudence, Be admonished, ye judges of earth:

² How long will ye judge perversely, And, the countenances of the lawless, uplift? [Selah.] ³ Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;

¹¹ Kings of earth, and all peoples, Rulers, and all judges of earth;

¹⁶ By me, rulers govern, and nobles––all the righteous judges:

²⁶ Establishing the word of his Servant, And, the counsel of his Messengers, he maketh good,––Who saith of Jerusalem––She shall be inhabited! And of the cities of Judah––They shall be built! And, the ruins thereof, will I set up!

² Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Ye yourselves, saw all the calamity, which I brought in upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah,––and there, they are, a desolation, this day, and there is not, in them an inhabitant: ³ because of their wickedness, which they committed, provoking me to anger, by going to burn incense, to serve other, gods,––whom they had not known, they, ye, nor your fathers; ⁴ yet I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, betimes, sending them, saying, Do not, I pray you, commit this abominable thing, which I hate! ⁵ but they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, by turning from their wickedness,––so as not to burn incense to other, gods. ⁶ Therefore were mine indignation and mine anger, poured out, and a fire was kindled in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,––and they became waste and desolate, as at this day.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Look around and see, whether there is pain like my pain, which is severely dealt out to me,––in that Yahweh, hath caused grief, in the day of the glow of his anger?

¹³ How shall I solemnly admonish thee? What shall I liken to thee, thou daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with thee, that I may comfort thee, thou virgin, daughter of Zion? for, great as the sea, is thy grievous injury, Who can heal thee?

¹⁷ Yahweh hath done what he thought, hath carried out his word, wherewith he gave charge in the days of old, hath thrown down, and not spared,––Thus hath he let the enemy rejoice over thee, hath raised high the horn of thine adversaries.

⁶ And the punishment of the daughter of my people hath grown greater than the punishment of Sodom,––which was overthrown as in a moment, when no hands had been laid violently upon her.

⁹ Yea I will execute upon thee that which I have not executed, And like unto which I will not execute again,––Because of all thine abominations.

⁶ They have had, Visions of falsehood, and, Divinations of lies, Who say, Declareth Yahweh, when, Yahweh, hath not sent them,––Yet have they waited for a fulfilling of the word.

² A day of obscurity and deep gloom, a day of cloud, and thick darkness, as dusk, spread over the mountains,––a people, many and bold, like whom, hath not been from age–past times, and, after whom, shall not be again unto the years of generation after generation.

² Only you, have I acknowledged, of all the families of the ground, For this cause, will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

⁶ Howbeit, as for my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and so they returned and said, Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our practices, So hath he dealt with us?

⁸ I looked by night, And lo! a man riding upon a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees, in the shade; and, after him, were horses, red, bay, and white.

¹⁸ For, verily, I say unto you, until the heaven and the earth shall pass away, one least letter, or one point, may in nowise pass away from the law, till all be accomplished.

²¹ For there will be then, Great tribulation, such as hath not happened, from the beginning of the world, until the present time, neither in any wise shall happen.

¹⁹ For in those days shall be a tribulation––such, that there hath not happened, the like, from the beginning of creation which God created, until the present time, and shall in nowise happen.

²² For, days of avenging, are, these, for all the things written to be fulfilled.

⁸ For I affirm Christ to have become a minister of circumcision in behalf of the truth of God,––to confirm the promises of the fathers,

⁴ yet hath Yahweh, not given, onto you a heart to know, or eyes to see, or ears to hear,––until this day.

¹³ Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.

⁴ Restore us, O God of our salvation, And take away thy vexation towards us.

¹⁸ Unveil thou mine eyes, that I may discern Wondrous things out of thy law.

²⁷ The way of thy precepts, cause thou me to understand, and I will indeed meditate in thy wonders.

⁷³ [YODH.] Thine own hands, have made me, and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

¹³ Yet, the people, have not turned unto him that smote them,––And, Yahweh of hosts, have they not sought.

⁹ Things told in advance, lo! they have come to pass,––And, new things, am I, telling, Ere yet they spring forth, I let, you, hear them.

⁷ And there was none, To call upon thy Name, To rouse himself to lay firm hold on thee,––For thou hadst hidden thy face from us, And hadst made us despond, by means of our iniquity.

³⁰ In vain, have I smitten your children, Correction, have they not accepted,––Your sword hath devoured, your prophets, as a lion that destroyeth.

³ O Yahweh! thine own eyes, are they not directed to fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, Yet have they not grieved, Thou hast consumed them––They have refused to receive correction,––They have made their faces bolder than a cliff, They have refused to return.

¹⁸ I have, heard, Ephraim, bemoaning himself, Thou hast chastised me, and I have been chastised, Like a bullock, not broken in, Suffer me to return, that I may, return, For, thou, art Yahweh my God.

²⁷ Behold me! watching over them, for calamity, and not for blessing,––so shall all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt, be consumed, by sword and by famine, until there be an end of them.

¹⁵ All passing by, have clapped, over thee, their hands, have hissed and wagged their head over the daughter of Jerusalem,––[saying], Is, this, the city, of which men used to say––The perfection of beauty! A joy to the whole earth! ¹⁶ All thy foes, have opened wide, over thee their mouth, They have hissed, and gnashed their teeth, They have said––We have swallowed [her] up! Surely, this, is the day for which we have waited, We have found! We have seen! ¹⁷ Yahweh hath done what he thought, hath carried out his word, wherewith he gave charge in the days of old, hath thrown down, and not spared,––Thus hath he let the enemy rejoice over thee, hath raised high the horn of thine adversaries.

²¹ Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;

⁷ They all, become hot as an oven, and devour their judges,––all their kings, have fallen, there hath been none among them crying unto me.

¹⁰ Therefore doth the Excellency of Israel, answer, to his face; yet have they not returned unto Yahweh their God, nor have they sought him, in spite of all this!

¹⁴ Neither made they outcry unto me, in their heart, although they kept on howling upon their beds, over corn and new wine, they gathered themselves together, they rebelled against me.

⁴⁵ Then, opened he their mind, to understand the Scriptures;

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets,––And they shall be, all, the instructed of God: Every one who hath heard of the Father, and learned, cometh unto me.

³² And ye shall know the truth, and, the truth, shall make you free.

³⁵ If, those, he called gods, unto whom, the word of God, came––and the Scripture cannot be broken––

¹⁷ That, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you a Spirit of wisdom and understanding in gaining a personal knowledge of him,–– ¹⁸ The eyes of your heart having been enlightened, that ye may know––what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

²¹ If, at least, it is, him, ye have heard, and, in him, ye have been taught––even as truth is in Jesus,––

⁵ But, if any of you is sinning short of wisdom, let him be asking of God, Who giveth unto all freely and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him;

²⁸ And it shall come to pass, that––Just as I watched over them, to root up and to break down and to tear out and to destroy, and to break in pieces, So, will I watch over them, to build and to plant, Declareth Yahweh.

¹ Then said Yahweh unto Moses, Now, shalt thou see, what I will do to Pharaoh,––for, with a strong hand, shall he let them go, and, with a strong hand, shall he drive them out from his land.

⁶ Therefore say thou to the sons of Israel––I, am Yahweh, Therefore will I bring you forth from under the burdens of Egypt, And will deliver you out of their service,––And will redeem you with a stretched–out arm, and with great judgments;

¹⁶ but, in very deed, for this purpose, have I let thee remain, for the purpose of showing thee my might,––and that my name may be celebrated in all the earth.

¹ Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying: ² Speak unto the sons of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi–hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea,––before Baal–zephon, over against it, shall ye encamp, by the sea. ³ Then will Pharaoh say, of the sons of Israel, Entangled, they are, in the land,––the desert hath closed in upon them. ⁴ So will I let the heart of Pharaoh wax bold, and he will pursue them, that I may get me honour over Pharaoh, and over all his forces, and the Egyptians shall know, that, I, am Yahweh. And they did so. ⁵ And it was told the king of Egypt, that the people had fled,––and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned against the people, and they said––What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us? ⁶ So he yoked his chariot,––and, his people, took he with him. ⁷ And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt,––with warriors, in every one. ⁸ And Yahweh let the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt wax bold, and he pursued the sons of Israel,––when, the sons of Israel, were going out with a high hand. ⁹ So the Egyptians pursued them, and overtook them, encamping by the sea––all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his forces,––by Pi–hahiroth, before Baal–zephon.
¹⁰ Now, when, Pharaoh, had drawn near, the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and lo! the Egyptians, moving along after them, and they feared greatly, and the sons of Israel made outcry unto Yahweh. ¹¹ Then said they unto Moses, Was it because there were no graves in Egypt, that thou didst fetch us, to die in the desert? What is this thou hast done to us, bringing us forth out of Egypt? ¹² Is not this the word which we spake unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians,––for it is, better for us, to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the desert? ¹³ And Moses said unto the people––Do not fear, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today,––for, as for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall not again see them any more, to times age–abiding. ¹⁴ Yahweh, will fight for you,––and, ye, shall, forbear.
¹⁵ And Yahweh said unto Moses, What outcry wouldst thou make unto me? Speak unto the sons of Israel, that they go forward;

¹⁸ And the Egyptians shall know, that, I, am Yahweh,––when I have gotten me honour over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

¹¹ And Moses besought the face of Yahweh his God,––and said––Wherefore, O Yahweh, should thine anger kindle upon thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great might, and with a firm hand?

⁵¹ because, thy people and thine inheritance, they are,––whom thou didst bring forth out of Egypt, out of the midst of the smelting–pot of iron;

¹⁰ They, therefore, are thy servants, and thy people,––whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy firm hand.

¹⁰ and didst grant signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land, for thou hadst taken note, that they ruled proudly over them,––and so thou didst make thee a name, as at this day.

⁸ Yet he saved them, for the sake of his Name, to make known his mighty power;

¹³ Instead of the thorn–bush, shall come up the fir–tree, And, instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle–tree,––So shall it become, unto Yahweh, a Name, A Sign age–abiding, which shall not be cut off.

¹⁰ and I wrote in the scroll, and sealed it, and took in attestation, witnesses,––and weighed the silver in the balances.

²⁰ Who didst set signs and wonders, in the land of Egypt, unto this day, and in Israel, and among mankind,––And didst make for thyself a name, as at this day; ²¹ And didst bring forth thy people Israel, out of the land of Egypt, With signs and with wonders, and, With a strong, hand, and, With an outstretched, arm, and, With great, terror; ²² And didst give unto them this land, which thou hadst sworn to their fathers to give unto them,––a land flowing with milk and honey; ²³ And they came in and took possession of it, But hearkened not unto thy voice, Nor, in thy law, did they walk, Nought of what thou hadst commanded them to do, did they do,––And so thou hast caused to befall them, all this calamity.

¹⁸ I will arise, and go unto my father, and will say unto him––Father! I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: ¹⁹ No longer, am I worthy to be called a son of thine,––Make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came unto his own father.

²¹ And the son said unto him––Father! I have sinned against heaven, and before thee: No longer, am I worthy to be called a son of thine,––[make me as one of thy hired servants.]

¹³ But, the tax–collector, afar off, standing,––would not so much as lift up, his eyes, unto heaven, but kept smiting his own breast saying––O God! be propitiated unto me, the sinner!

¹⁰ Who, out of so great a death, rescued us, and will rescue,––unto whom we have turned our hope, [that], even yet, he will rescue:

⁵ thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor be led to serve them––For, I, Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers, upon sons, unto three [generations] and unto four, of them that hate me;

³⁹ And, they who are left of you, shall melt away in their iniquity, in the lands of your foes; Yea also, in the iniquity of their fathers with them, shall they melt away.
⁴⁰ Then shall they confess their iniquity, And the iniquity of their fathers, In their unfaithfulness wherewith they had been unfaithful towards me; Yea moreover, because they had gone in opposition to me,

⁷ Yahweh, maketh poor, and enricheth,––Layeth low, yea exalteth;

⁷ then will I cut off Israel, from the face of the soil, which I have given unto them, and, the house which I have hallowed for my Name, will I suffer to be carried away from before me,––and Israel shall become a byword and a mockery, among all the peoples; ⁸ and, this house which had been renowned, shall be desolate, every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and shall whistle,––and men shall say––For what cause, hath Yahweh done, thus, unto this land, and unto this house? ⁹ And men will answer––Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and bowed themselves down to them, and served them, for this cause, hath Yahweh brought in upon them all this ruin.

⁸ and didst find his heart faithful before thee, and didst solemnize with him a covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite,––to give it unto his seed,––and didst confirm thy words, for, righteous, thou art.

¹ [To the Chief Musician. A Melody of David.]
In thee, O Yahweh, have I sought refuge, Let me not be ashamed to times age–abiding, In thy righteousness, deliver me:

¹³ Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From the age that is past, even unto the age yet to come: Amen and Amen!

² In thy righteousness, wilt thou rescue me, and deliver me, Incline unto me thine ear, and save me:

⁴ We have become, A reproach to our neighbours,––A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.

¹ [For the Sons of Korah. A Melody, a Song.]
His foundation, is in the holy mountains: ² Yahweh loveth the gates of Zion, More than all the dwellings of Jacob. ³ Glorious things, are to be spoken of thee, O city of God. [Selah.]

⁶ We have sinned––with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness; ⁷ Our fathers, in Egypt, understood not thy wonders, They remembered not the abounding of thy lovingkindnesses, but rebelled by the sea––at the Red Sea. ⁸ Yet he saved them, for the sake of his Name, to make known his mighty power; ⁹ So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, And he led them through deeps, as pasture–land; ¹⁰ And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe; ¹¹ So the waters covered their adversaries, Not one from among them, was left. ¹² They believed therefore in his words, They sang his praise.
¹³ Soon forgat they his works,––They waited not for his counsel; ¹⁴ But lusted a lust in the desert, and tested GOD in the waste. ¹⁵ So he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. ¹⁶ And they became jealous of Moses in the camp,––of Aaron the holy one of Yahweh; ¹⁷ The earth opened and engulfed Dathan, and covered up the assembly of Abiram; ¹⁸ Then was kindled a fire in their assembly,––a flame, consumed the lawless ones. ¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb,––and bowed down to a molten image; ²⁰ Thus changed they my glory, for the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. ²¹ They forgat GOD their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt: ²² Wonders in the land of Ham, Terrible things by the Red Sea. ²³ Then would he have bidden to destroy them,––had not Moses his chosen, stood in the breach before him, To turn back his wrath from destroying. ²⁴ And they refused the delightful land, They believed not his word; ²⁵ But murmured in their tents,––They hearkened not unto the voice of Yahweh. ²⁶ So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert; ²⁷ And would disperse their seed among the nations, and would scatter them throughout the lands. ²⁸ Yet they let themselves be bound to Baal–peor,––and did eat sacrifices to the dead: ²⁹ So they provoked to anger by their doings, and a plague, made a breach among them. ³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and interposed, and stayed was the plague: ³¹ So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding. ³² And they provoked by the waters of Meribah,––And it fared ill with Moses, for their sakes; ³³ For they embittered his spirit, and he spake rashly with his lips.
³⁴ They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them; ³⁵ But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings; ³⁶ Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare: ³⁷ Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons; ³⁸ And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood–shed; ³⁹ And they became unclean by their works, and became unchaste in their doings. ⁴⁰ Then was kindled the anger of Yahweh with his people, and he abhorred his own inheritance. ⁴¹ So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them; ⁴² And their enemies oppressed them, And they were bowed down under their hand. ⁴³ Many times, did he rescue them,––But, they, rebelled by their counsel, and sank low in their iniquity. ⁴⁴ Then looked he on the distress which befell them,––when he heard their loud cry; ⁴⁵ Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses; ⁴⁶ And granted them compassion before all their captors. ⁴⁷ Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from among the nations, That we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, That we may triumph aloud in thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be Yahweh, God of Israel, from one age even unto another, And all the people, shall say, Amen! Praise ye Yah!

¹ [A Melody of David.]
O Yahweh, hear my prayer, Give ear to my supplications, In thy faithfulness, answer me, in thy righteousness.

⁹ Do not be indignant, O Yahweh, so very greatly, Neither, perpetually, do thou recall iniquity,––Lo! look around, we pray thee. . . thy people, are, we all. ¹⁰ Thy holy, cities, have become a wilderness,––Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation! ¹¹ Our holy, and our beautiful, house, Where our fathers praised, thee, Hath become a conflagration,––And, all our delightful, places, are in ruins!

¹⁸ Therefore will I pursue them, with sword, with famine, and with pestilence,––And will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, A curse and an astonishment and a hissing and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

³² because of all the wickedness of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

⁸ Jerusalem, hath grievously sinned, For this cause, unto exile, hath she been delivered,––All who used to honour her, have despised her, for they have descried her unseemliness, yea, she herself, hath sighed, and turned back. ⁹ Her impurity, is in her skirts, She hath not remembered her hereafter, Therefore hath she come down wonderfully, none to comfort her,––Behold, O Yahweh, my humiliation, that the foe, hath made himself great.

¹⁵ All passing by, have clapped, over thee, their hands, have hissed and wagged their head over the daughter of Jerusalem,––[saying], Is, this, the city, of which men used to say––The perfection of beauty! A joy to the whole earth! ¹⁶ All thy foes, have opened wide, over thee their mouth, They have hissed, and gnashed their teeth, They have said––We have swallowed [her] up! Surely, this, is the day for which we have waited, We have found! We have seen!

¹⁴ And I will deliver thee up to desolation and reproach, among the nations that are round about thee,––in the eyes of every passer–by.

²⁰ And, while yet I was speaking, and praying, and confessing mine own sin, and the sin of my people Israel,––and causing my supplication to fall down before Yahweh my God, concerning the holy mountain of my God;

¹⁷ So shall ye know that, I, Yahweh, am your God, making my habitation in Zion my holy mountain,––So shall, Jerusalem, be, holy, and, foreigners, shall pass through her no more.

⁴ For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and, out of the house of slaves, I ransomed thee,––and I sent before thee, Moses, Aaron and Miriam. ⁵ O my people! remember, I pray you, what Balak king of Moab, counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor, answered him,––from the Acacias as far as Gilgal, that ye may know the righteousness of Yahweh.

³ Thus, saith Yahweh, I have returned unto Zion, and will make my habitation in the midst of Jerusalem,––and Jerusalem, shall be called, The city of fidelity, and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts, The mountain of holiness.

³¹ So that ye bear witness against yourselves, that ye are, sons, of them who murdered the prophets. ³² And, ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers!

⁴⁷ Alas for you! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers slew them! ⁴⁸ Hence, witnesses, are ye, and find consenting pleasure in the works of your fathers: because, they, indeed, slew them, and, ye, are building, [their tombs]. ⁴⁹ For this cause, the Wisdom of God hath said––I will send forth, unto them, prophets and apostles,––and, some from among them, will they slay, and, [some] persecute: ⁵⁰ That the blood of all the prophets which hath been shed from the foundation of the world, may be sought out, from this generation,–– ⁵¹ From the blood of Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah who was destroyed betwixt the altar and the house; Yea! I say unto you––It shall be sought out from this generation.

⁶ If, at least, it is a, righteous thing with God, to recompense, affliction, unto them that afflict you,

⁹ If we are confessing our sins, faithful, is he and, righteous––that he should forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

²³ Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, saying, Thus, shall ye bless the sons of Israel,––saying unto them: ²⁴ Yahweh bless thee, and keep thee: ²⁵ Yahweh cause his face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: ²⁶ Yahweh lift up his face unto thee, and appoint unto thee, peace.

⁶ Multitudes, are saying, Who will show us prosperity? Lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance, O Yahweh.

¹ [To the Chief Musician. With stringed Instruments. A Melody, a Song.]
God, be favorable to us and bless us, Cause his face to shine upon us. [Selah.]

¹ [To the Chief Musician. For "the Lilies of Testimony." Asaph’s. A Melody.]
O Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Thou who leddest forth Joseph like a rock, Thou who art throned on the cherubim, appear!

³ O God, bring us back, And light up thy face, That we may be saved.

⁷ O God of hosts, bring us back, And light up thy face, That we may be saved.

¹⁹ O Yahweh, God of hosts! bring us back, Light up thy face, That we may be saved.

¹³⁵ Thy face, light thou up on thy servant, And teach me thy statutes.

¹⁸ Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.

¹⁹ O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hearken and perform! Do not delay! For thine own sake, O my God, because, thine own name, hath been called, upon thy city, and upon thy people.

²⁴ Until even now, ye have asked nothing in my name: Be asking, and ye shall receive,––that, your joy, may be made full.

²⁰ For, how many soever be the promises of God, in him, is the Yea,––wherefore also, through him, [be] the Amen, unto God, for glory, through us.

²³ And, the city, hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they should shine therein; for, the glory of God, illumined it, and, the lamp thereof, was the Lamb.

⁷ Then said Yahweh, I have, seen, the humiliation of my people, who are in Egypt,––and, their outcry, have I heard, by reason of their task–masters, for I know their pains;

²⁹ that thine eye may be opened toward this house, night and day, toward the place of which thou hast said, My Name shall be, there; hearkening unto the prayer which thy servant shall offer toward this place.

¹⁶ Bow down, O Yahweh, thine ear, and hear, Open, O Yahweh, thine eyes, and see,––yea hear thou the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent––To reproach a Living God!

⁶ I, have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O GOD,––Incline thine ear unto me, Hear thou my speech: ⁷ Let thy lovingkindness be distinguished, thou Saviour of such as seek refuge from them who lift themselves up against thy right hand.

¹⁴ O God of hosts, return, we pray thee,––Look down out of the heavens, and see, And inspect this vine: ¹⁵ Yea the stock which thy right hand planted, Even upon the son thou didst secure for thyself. ¹⁶ To be burned with fire, it is cut down,––At the rebuke of thy countenance, they will perish. ¹⁷ Let thy hand be, Upon the Man of thy right hand, Upon the Son of Man thou didst secure for thyself; ¹⁸ So will we not draw back from thee, Thou wilt bring us to life, And, on thy Name, will we call. ¹⁹ O Yahweh, God of hosts! bring us back, Light up thy face, That we may be saved.

¹⁷ Bow down, O Yahweh, thine ear––and hear, Open, O Yahweh, thine eyes––and see,––Yea hear thou all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent––to reproach a Living God.

¹⁵ Look thou down, out of the heavens, and see, Out of the high abode of thy holiness and of thy majesty,––Where, are thy jealousy, and thy mighty deeds? The resounding of thy yearning affection, and thy compassions towards me, are they restrained? ¹⁶ For, thou, art our father, Though, Abraham, knew us not, And, Israel, could not acknowledge us,––Thou, O Yahweh, art our father, Our Redeemer from the Age–past time, is thy name. ¹⁷ Wherefore, shouldst thou suffer us to wander O Yahweh, from thy ways? [Wherefore] shouldst thou let us harden our heart past revering thee? Return thou, for the sake of, Thy servants, The tribes thou thyself hast inherited. ¹⁸ For a short time only, did thy holy, people hold possession,––Our adversaries, trod down thy sanctuary! ¹⁹ We have become like those, Over whom, from age–past times, thou hast not ruled, Who have never, been called by thy name!

⁶ But we have become as one unclean, all of us, And, as a garment polluted, were all our righteous doings,––And so we faded like a leaf, all of us, And, our iniquity, as a wind, carried us away;

¹² In view of these things, wilt thou restrain thyself, O Yahweh? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and humble us so very greatly?

¹⁰ And will ye then come in, and stand before me, in this house, whereon my Name hath been called, and say,––We have set ourselves free,––for the purpose of committing all these abominations? ¹¹ A den of robbers, hath this house, on which my Name hath been called, become, in your own eyes? I, also,––lo! I have seen it, Declareth Yahweh. ¹² For go, I pray you, unto my place which was in Shiloh, Where I made my Name to dwell, at first,––And see what I did to it, because of the wickedness of my people Israel!

⁹ Wherefore, shouldst thou be as a man astounded, As a mighty man, who cannot save? Yet, thou, art in our midst––O Yahweh, And, thy Name, on us, hath been called, Do not abandon us!

¹⁶ Thy words, were found, and I did eat them, Then became thy words unto me, the joy and gladness of my heart,––For, thy Name, hath been called, upon me, O Yahweh, God of hosts!

²⁹ For lo! with the city on which my Name hath been called, am I, making a beginning of sending calamity, And shall, ye, be held, guiltless? Ye shall not be held guiltless: For, a sword, am I, proclaiming against all the inhabitants of the earth, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

⁷ Peradventure, their supplication, will fall prostrate, before Yahweh, and they return, every man from his wicked way,––For, great, are the anger and the indignation, which Yahweh hath spoken, against this people.

²⁰ Now, therefore, hear, I beseech thee, O my lord the king,––Let my supplication, I pray thee, fall prostrate before thee, and do not cause me to return unto the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there!

³² Not, for your sakes, am I, working, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, be it known to you,––Turn ye pale and then blush for your ways, O house of Israel.

² Unto the assembly of God which is in Corinth, sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints,––with all who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in every place,––their Lord and ours:

¹⁹ Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, According to the greatness of thy lovingkindness,––And according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt, even thus far.

³⁰ Wilt, thou, therefore, hearken unto the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, whensoever they shall pray toward this place,––yea wilt, thou thyself, hear, in thine own dwelling–place, in the heavens, and, when thou hearest, then wilt thou forgive? ³¹ When a man shall sin against his neighbour, and there shall be taken up against him an oath, to put him on oath,––and he shall come in and swear before thine altar, in this house, ³² then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, and act, and judge thy servants, condemning the lawless, by setting his way upon his own head,––and justifying the righteous, by giving to him, according to his righteousness? ³³ When thy people Israel are smitten before an enemy, because they have been sinning against thee,––and they turn again unto thee, and confess thy Name, and pray and make supplication unto thee, in this house, ³⁴ then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them back unto the soil, which thou gavest unto their fathers? ³⁵ When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have been sinning against thee,––and they shall pray toward this place, and confess thy Name, and, from their sin, shall return, because thou hast been afflicting them, ³⁶ then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou mayest teach them the good way, wherein they should walk,––and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people, for an inheritance? ³⁷ When there shall be, famine, in the land, when there shall be, pestilence, when there shall be, blasting, mildew locust, caterpillar, when their enemy shall besiege them in one of their own gates,––whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness; ³⁸ any prayer, any supplication which, any son of earth, may have, of all thy people Israel,––who will certainly know every man the plague of his own heart, and so he shall spread abroad his hands towards this house, ³⁹ then wilt, thou thyself, hear in the heavens, in the settled place of thine abode, and forgive and act, and give unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou wilt know,––for, thou thyself alone, knowest the heart of all the sons of men;

²¹ wilt thou therefore hearken unto the supplications of thy servant, and thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place,––yea wilt, thou thyself, hear, out of thine own dwelling–place, out of the heavens, and, when thou hearest, then wilt thou forgive?

²⁵ then wilt, thou thyself, hear out of the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel,––and bring them back unto the soil, which thou didst give to them and to their fathers? ²⁶ When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have been sinning against thee,––and they shall pray towards this place, and shall confess thy Name, from their sin, shall return, because thou hast been afflicting them, ²⁷ then wilt, thou thyself, hear [out of] the heavens and forgive the sin of thy servants, and thy people Israel, that thou mayest direct them into the good way, wherein they should walk,––and give rain, upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people, for an inheritance? ²⁸ When there shall be, a famine, in the land, when there shall be, a pestilence,––when there shall be, blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar,––when their enemy shall besiege them in the land at their own gates–whatsoever plague or whatsoever sickness; –– ²⁹ whatsoever prayer, whatsoever supplication, which any son of earth may have, or any of thy people Israel,––when any man shall come to know his plague, or his pain, and so he shall spread abroad his hands towards this house–– ³⁰ then wilt, thou thyself, hear out of the heavens, the settled place of thine abode, and forgive, and grant to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou wilt know,––for, thou thyself alone, knowest the heart of the sons of men:

³⁹ then wilt thou hear out of the heavens––out of the settled place of thine abode––their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause,––and forgive thy people, that wherein they sinned against thee?

²³ Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether! ²⁴ Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression? ²⁵ For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth. ²⁶ Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.

⁹ Our own signs, have we not seen,––There is no longer a prophet,––Neither is there with us, one who knoweth––How long! ¹⁰ How long, O God, shall the adversary, reproach? Shall the enemy revile thy Name perpetually? ¹¹ Wherefore shouldst thou withdraw thy hand––thy right hand? [Bring it] out of the midst of thy bosom! [Selah.]

⁵ How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou be angry utterly? Shall thy jealousy, burn like fire?
⁶ Pour out thy wrath, Upon the nations that have not known thee––and, Upon the kingdoms that, on thy Name, have not called.

⁸ Do not remember against us former iniquities,––Haste thee, let thy compassions, come to meet us, For we have been brought very low! ⁹ Help us, O God of our salvation, on account of the glory of thy Name,––Rescue us then, and put a propitiatory–covering over our sins, For the sake of thy Name. ¹⁰ Wherefore should the nations say––Where is their God? Let him be known among the nations before our eyes! [Yea! By] the avenging of the blood of thy servants which hath been shed!

⁵ To times age–abiding, wilt thou be angry with us? Wilt thou prolong thine anger, from generation to generation? ⁶ Wilt not, thou thyself, again give us life, That, thy people, may rejoice in thee.

¹³ Thou, wilt arise, wilt have compassion upon Zion, Surely it is time to favour her, Surely the time appointed, hath come; ¹⁴ Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour: ¹⁵ That the nations may revere thy Name, O Yahweh, And all the kings of the earth, thy glory. ¹⁶ When Yahweh, hath built up, Zion, Hath appeared in his glory;

¹ Not unto us, O Yahweh, not unto us,––but, unto thine own Name, give glory, concerning thy lovingkindness, concerning thy faithfulness. ² Wherefore should the nations say, Pray where is their God?

⁹ Do not be indignant, O Yahweh, so very greatly, Neither, perpetually, do thou recall iniquity,––Lo! look around, we pray thee. . . thy people, are, we all. ¹⁰ Thy holy, cities, have become a wilderness,––Zion, a wilderness, hath become, Jerusalem, a desolation! ¹¹ Our holy, and our beautiful, house, Where our fathers praised, thee, Hath become a conflagration,––And, all our delightful, places, are in ruins! ¹² In view of these things, wilt thou restrain thyself, O Yahweh? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and humble us so very greatly?

²⁰ We acknowledge, O Yahweh, Our own lawlessness, The iniquity of our fathers,––For we have sinned against thee. ²¹ Do not despise––for the sake of thy Name, Do not treat with contempt––the throne of thy glory,––Remember!––do not break thy covenant with us.

⁹ Howbeit I wrought with effect, for the sake of mine own Name, that it might not be profaned––before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were,––before whose eyes I made myself known unto them, by bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Howbeit I wrought with effect, for the sake of mine own Name,––that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, in whose eyes I had brought them forth.

²² Howbeit I withdrew my hand, and wrought with effect, for the sake of mine own Name,––that it should not be profaned before the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them forth:

²² Therefore, say thou to the house of Israel, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Not for your sakes, am I, working, O house of Israel, But for my holy, Name, which ye have profaned, among the nations where ye have entered;

²⁵ Therefore,––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Now, will I bring back them of the captivity of Jacob, And have compassion upon all the house of Israel,––And will be jealous for my holy, Name;

¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hearken, open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city on which hath been called thy name; for, not on the ground of our own righteousnesses, are we causing our supplications to fall down before thee, but on the ground of thine abounding compassions.

² And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating the herbage of the land, that I said––Oh, My Lord, Yahweh, forgive, I beseech thee: By whom shall Jacob, arise? for, small, he is.

⁸ I say unto you––Even though he will not give him, rising because of his being a friend of his, because, at least, of his importunity, he will rouse himself, and give him as many as he needeth.

⁶ Unto the praise of the glory of his favour wherewith he favoured us in the Beloved One,––

¹² That we should be for the praise of his glory––we who had hoped beforehand in the Christ,––

¹⁰ In order that now, unto the principalities and the authorities in the heavenlies, might be made known, through means of the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,––

⁵ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right–hand forget: ⁶ Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.

¹⁸ Near is Yahweh to all who call upon him,––to all them who call upon him in faithfulness.

²⁰ For, as for men, there is none righteous in the earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

⁵ Then said I––Woe to me!––for I am undone, Because, a man of unclean lips, am, I, And, in the midst of a people of unclean lips, do, I, dwell,––For, the King, Yahweh of hosts, have mine eyes seen!

⁷ Surely I will bring them into my holy, mountain, And make them joyful in my house of prayer, Their ascending–offerings and their sacrifices, being accepted upon mine altar,––For, my house, a house of prayer, shall be called, for all the peoples!

⁹ Then, shalt thou, Call, and, Yahweh, will answer, Cry out, and he will say, Behold me! If thou remove, out of thy midst, The yoke, The pointing of the finger, and, The speaking of iniquity;

⁶ Upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, have I appointed watchmen, All the day and all the night through, let them not hold their peace,––O ye that put Yahweh in mind, Do not take rest, to yourselves, ⁷ Neither give rest, unto him, Until he establish, and until he set forth Jerusalem, as a praise in the earth!

²⁴ And it shall come to pass–That, before they call, I, will answer, And, while yet they, are speaking, I, will hear.

³ So I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek [him] by prayer, and supplication,––with fasting, and sackcloth and ashes;
⁴ yea I prayed unto Yahweh my God, and made confession,––and said––I beseech thee, O Lord, the GOD great and to be revered, keeping the covenant and the lovingkindness, to them who love him, and to them who keep his commandments.

¹⁶ O Lord! according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thine indignation turn away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain,––for, by reason of our sins, and by reason of the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people, have become a reproach, to all who are round about us.

² In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three sevens of days:

³¹ And, when they had made supplication, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were filled, one and all, with the Holy Spirit, and began speaking the word of God with freedom of utterance.

³⁰ And Cornelius said––Four days ago, counting unto this very hour, I was keeping, the ninth hour, as one of prayer, in my house. And lo! a man stood before me, in bright clothing, ³¹ And saith––Cornelius! thy prayer hath been heard, and, thine alms, have been remembered before God.

²³ For, all, have sinned and fall short of the glory of God;

² For, oft, are we stumbling, one and all: If anyone, in word, doth not stumble, the same, is a mature man, able to curb even the whole body.

² And, the holy city, new Jerusalem, saw I coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

¹⁰ And he carried me away, in spirit, unto a mountain great and high, and pointed out to me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God;

³⁹ The one, lamb, shalt thou offer in the morning,––and, the second, lamb, shalt thou offer between the evenings;

³⁶ And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the gift, that Elijah the prophet drew near, and said, O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel! Today, let it be known––That, thou, art God in Israel, and that, I, am thy servant,––and that, by thy word, have I done all these things.

⁴ Then, unto me, were gathered, all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, concerning the unfaithfulness of them who had been exiled,––but, I, sat stunned, until the evening gift.
⁵ And, at the evening gift, I arose from mine affliction, which had been accompanied by the rending of my garment and my robe,––and I bowed upon my knees, and spread forth my hands unto Yahweh my God;

²⁰ Bless Yahweh, ye messengers of his,––Heroes of vigour, doing his word, To hearken [again] to the voice of his word;

⁴ Making His messengers, winds, His attendants, a flaming fire;

² Seraphim, were standing above him; six wings severally, had each one,––With twain, he covered his face, And, with twain, he covered his feet, And, with twain, he did fly.

⁶ Then flew unto me, one of the seraphim, And, in his hand, a live coal,––With tongs, had he taken it from off the altar. ⁷ Then touched he my mouth, and said––Lo! this hath touched thy lips,––Thus shall be taken away, thine iniquity, And, thy sin, by propitiation be covered.

¹¹ and, their wings, were spread, above,––two of each, joined one another, and, two, covered their bodies;

¹⁴ And, the living ones, ran and returned,––like the appearance of a flash of lightning.

¹⁶ Then heard I a human voice, between [the banks of] the Ulai,––which cried out, and said, Gabriel! cause this man to understand the revelation.

¹⁸ And, when he spake with me, I fell stunned upon my face, to the earth,––but he touched me, and caused me to stand up where I was.

¹⁰ And lo! a hand, touched me; and roused me up on my knees and the palms of my hands.

¹⁶ Then lo! like the similitude of the sons of men, one was touching my lips,––so I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him who was standing before me, O my lord! By the revelation, my pains have seized me, and I retain no strength.

¹⁸ Then again there touched me one like in appearance to a son of earth, and he strengthened me.

⁴⁶ And, about the ninth hour, Jesus uttered a cry, with a loud voice, saying––Eloi! Eloi! lema sabachthanei? that is, My God! my God! to what end hast thou forsaken me?

¹⁹ And the messenger, answering, said unto him––I, am Gabriel,––he that standeth near before God; and have been sent forth to speak unto thee, and to deliver the joyful message unto thee, as touching these things.

¹ Now, Peter and John, were going up into the temple, for the hour of prayer––the ninth;

³ Saw, in a vision, manifestly, as if about the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God, coming in unto him, and saying unto him––Cornelius!

⁹ Now, on the morrow, as those men were journeying, and, unto the city, drawing near, Peter went up on the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour;

⁷ And lo! a messenger of the Lord stood over him, and a light shone in the cell; and, smiting the side of Peter, he roused him up, saying––Rise up quickly! And his chains fell off out of his hands.

⁷ Even as to the messengers, indeed, he saith––Who maketh his messengers, winds, and his ministers of state, a fiery flame;

¹⁴ Are they not, all, spirits, doing public service,––for ministry, sent forth, for the sake of them who are about to inherit salvation?

²⁴ Seventy weeks, have been divided concerning thy people and concerning thy holy city––to put an end to the transgression, and fill up the measure of sin, and put a propitiatory–covering over iniquity, and bring in the righteousness of ages, and affix a seal the vision and prophecy, and anoint the holy of holies. ²⁵ Thou must know, then, and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem––unto the Anointed One, the Prince, [shall be] seven weeks, and sixty–two weeks,––the broadway and the wall, shall again be built, even in the end of the times. ²⁶ And, after the sixty–two weeks, shall the Anointed One, be cut off, and have, nothing,––and, the city and the sanctuary, will one destroy with the Prince, and so will his own end come with an overwhelming flood, howbeit, up to the full end of the war, are decreed astounding things. ²⁷ And he will confirm a covenant to the many, for one week,––but, in the middle of the week, will cause sacrifice and present to cease, and, in his stead, [shall be] the horrid abomination that astoundeth, even till, a full end, and that a decreed one, shall be poured out on him that astoundeth.

²¹ Howbeit I will tell thee that which is inscribed in the writing of truth,––but there is no one who holdeth strongly with me concerning these things, save Michael your ruler.

⁹ Then said I, What are these, my lord? And the messenger who was speaking with me, said unto me, I, will shew thee what these, are.

¹⁴ Then the messenger who was speaking with me, said unto me, Proclaim thou, saying, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion, with a great jealousy;

⁴ Then began I, and said, unto the messenger who was speaking with me,––What are these, my lord? ⁵ And the messenger answered, and said unto me,––These, are the four winds of the heavens, coming forward after each hath presented itself near the Lord of all the earth.

¹ After these things, I saw, and lo! a door set open in heaven; and, the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet, speaking with me, saying––Come up hither! and I will point out to thee the things which must needs come to pass. After these things,

¹⁰ I, am my beloved’s, and, unto me, is his longing.

¹⁶ Son of Man, Behold me! taking away from thee the delight of thine eyes, with a stroke,––But thou shall not lament, Neither shalt thou weep, Neither shall come––thy tears:

¹² And they shall spoil thy wealth, And make a prey of thy merchandise, And break down thy walls, And, thy pleasant, houses, shall they lay in ruins; And, thy stones and thy timber and thy dust––in the midst of the waters, shall they lay.

¹¹ Then said he unto me, O Daniel! man greatly delighted in! have understanding in the words which, I, am about to speak unto thee, and stand up where thou art, for, now, have I been sent unto thee. And, when he had spoken with me this word, I stood up trembling. ¹² Then said he unto me, Do not fear, Daniel, for, from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard; and, I, am come, by reason of thy words.

¹⁹ And he said, Do not fear, O man greatly delighted in! peace to thee, be strong, yea be strong! And, as he spake with me, I gained strength, and said, Let my lord speak, for thou hast strengthened me.

²⁸ and entering in unto her, he said––Joy to thee, favoured one! The Lord, be with thee!

¹⁵ Then was it slain, and Moses took the blood, and put [thereof] upon the horns of the altar round about, with his finger, and cleansed the altar from sin,––and, the [remainder of the] blood, poured he forth at the base of the altar, and hallowed it, putting a propitiatory–covering thereupon.

⁸ And thou shalt count to thee seven weeks of years, seven years, seven times,––so shall the days of the seven weeks of years become to thee, forty–nine years.

³⁴ By the number of the days, wherein ye spied out the land––forty days, each day for a year, shall they bear your iniquities––forty years,––so shall ye know my opposition.

²⁴ and the priests slaughtered them, and sin–cleansed, with their blood, the altar, to put a propitiatory–covering over all Israel,–because, for all Israel, did the king appoint the ascending–sacrifice and the offering for bearing sin.

⁶ Yet, I, have installed my king,––on Zion my holy mountain.

⁷ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated lawlessness,––For this cause, hath God, thine own God, anointed thee, With the oil of gladness, beyond thy partners.

⁶ Lift up––to the heavens––your eyes, And look around to the earth beneath, Though, the heavens, like smoke, should have vanished, And, the earth, like a garment, should fall to pieces, And, her inhabitants, in like manner, should die, Yet, my salvation, unto times age–abiding, shall continue, And, my righteousness, shall not be broken down.

⁸ For, like a garment, shall they be eaten of the moth, And, like wool, shall they be eaten of the larva; But, my righteousness, unto times age–abiding, shall continue, And, my salvation, unto the remotest generation.

¹⁰ Yet, Yahweh, purposed to bruise him, He laid on him sickness:––If his soul become an offering for guilt, He shall see a seed, He shall prolong his days,––And, the purpose of Yahweh, in his hand, shall prosper: ¹¹ Of the travail of his soul, shall he see, He shall be satisfied with his knowledge, A setting right, when set right himself, shall my Servant win for the Many, Since, of their iniquities, he, taketh the burden.

¹ Thus, saith Yahweh, Observe ye justice, And execute righteousness,––For, near, is, My salvation, to come in, and, My righteousness to be revealed.

¹ The spirit of My Lord Yahweh, is upon me,––Because Yahweh, Hath anointed me, to tell good tidings to the oppressed, Hath sent me to bind up the broken–hearted, To proclaim, To captives, liberty, To them who are bound, the opening of the prison;

⁵ Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh, when I will raise up to David, A righteous Bud, And he shall reign as, king, and prosper, And shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. ⁶ In his days, Shall Judah, be saved, And, Israel, abide securely,––And, this, is his name whereby he shall be called, Yahweh, our Righteousness.

²² Completed is thy punishment, O daughter of Zion, He will no more carry thee away captive––He hath punished thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he hath stripped the veil from off thy sins.

⁶ And, when thou hast ended these, then shalt thou lie, on thy right side, a second, time, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah,––forty days, one day for each year, have I appointed thee.

¹² Son of man, Take thou up a dirge, over the king of Tyre,––And thou shalt say to him, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Thou, wast of finished proportions, Full of wisdom, and, Perfect in beauty:

²¹ Moreover she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus,–– for, he, will save his people from their sins.

¹³ For, all the prophets and the law, until John, did prophesy;

²⁴ saying––What have we in common with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee, who thou art, The Holy One of God.

³⁵ And answering, the messenger said unto her––The Holy Spirit, shall come upon thee, and, the power of the Most High, shall overshadow thee; wherefore, even that which is to be born, Holy, shall be called, Son of God.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord, is upon me, because he hath anointed me––to tell glad tidings unto the destitute; He hath sent me forth,––To proclaim, to captives, a release, and, to the blind, a recovering of sight,––to send away the crushed, with a release; ¹⁹ To proclaim the welcome year of the Lord. ²⁰ And, folding up the scroll, he handed it to the attendant, and sat down; and, the eyes of all, in the synagogue, were intently fixed upon him; ²¹ and he began to be saying to them––This day, is fulfilled this scripture, in your ears.

²⁵ And, he, said unto them––O thoughtless ones! and slow in heart to rest your faith upon all things which the prophets have spoken:–– ²⁶ Was it not needful for the Christ, these very things, to suffer, and to enter into his glory? ²⁷ And, beginning from Moses, and from all the prophets, he thoroughly explained to them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself.

⁴⁴ And he said unto them––These, are my words, which I spake unto you yet being with you: That all the things that are written in the law of Moses and the Prophets and Psalms, concerning me, must needs be fulfilled. ⁴⁵ Then, opened he their mind, to understand the Scriptures;

⁴¹ The same findeth, first, his own brother Simon, and saith unto him––We have found the Messiah! which is, when translated, Anointed.

³⁴ For, he whom God hath sent, the sayings of God, doth speak; for, not by measure, giveth he the Spirit.

²⁸ After this, Jesus, knowing that, already, all things, have been finished,––that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith––I thirst! ²⁹ A vessel, was standing, full of vinegar. A sponge, therefore, full of the vinegar, put about, hyssop, brought they unto his mouth. ³⁰ When, therefore, he had received the vinegar, Jesus said––It is finished! And, bowing his head, delivered up his spirit.

¹⁴ But, ye, denied, the Holy and Righteous One, and claimed a man that was a murderer to be granted you;

²² Moses, indeed, said––A prophet, unto you, shall the Lord God raise up among your brethren, like unto me: unto him, shall ye hearken respecting all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you.

²¹ But now, apart from law, a righteousness of God hath been manifested, borne witness to by the law and the prophets,–– ²² A righteousness of God, through faith in [Jesus] Christ, unto all that have faith; for there is no distinction,––

¹⁰ For, if being enemies we were reconciled unto God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

³⁰ But, of him, are, ye, in Christ Jesus, who hath been made wisdom unto us, from God,––both righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

¹⁸ The all things, moreover, are of God,––who hath reconciled us unto himself, through Christ, and hath given, unto us, the reconciling ministry:–– ¹⁹ How that, God, was in Christ, reconciling, a world, unto himself, not reckoning, unto them, their offences,––and hath put, in us, the reconciling discourse. ²⁰ In behalf of Christ, therefore, are we ambassadors,––as if God were beseeching through us: we entreat, in behalf of Christ,––be reconciled unto God! ²¹ Him who knew not sin, in our behalf, he made to be, sin, that we might become God’s righteousness in him.

⁹ And be found in him––not having a righteousness of my own, that which is by law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is, of God, upon my faith,––

²⁰ And, through him, fully to reconcile all things unto him, making peace through the blood of his cross,––[through him]––whether the things upon the earth or the things in the heavens;

¹⁴ Having blotted out the handwriting against us by the decrees, which was hostile to us,––and hath taken away, the same, out of the midst, nailing it up to the cross:

⁸ but, as to the Son,––Thy throne, O God, is unto times age–abiding, and––A sceptre of equity, is the sceptre of his kingdom, ⁹ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated lawlessness,––For this cause, hath God, thy God, anointed thee with the oil of exultation, beyond thy partners;

¹⁷ Whence he was obliged, in every way, unto the brethren, to be made like, that he might become a merciful and faithful high–priest, in the things pertaining unto God,––for the making of propitiation for the sins of the people.

²⁶ For, such a high–priest as this, for us, was [even] suited: Loving, noble, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and become, higher than the heavens;

¹¹ But, when Christ approached, as high–priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tent, not made by hand, that is, not of this creation,–– ¹² Nor yet through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood he entered once for all into the Holy place, age–abiding redemption discovering. ¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the profaned, halloweth unto the purity of the flesh, ¹⁴ How much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who through an age–abiding spirit offered himself unspotted unto God, purify our conscience from dead works, to the rendering of divine–service, unto a Living God?

²⁶ Else had it been needful for him, ofttimes, to suffer, from the foundation of the world; but, now, once for all, upon a conjunction of the ages, for a setting aside of sin through means of his sacrifice, hath he been made manifest;

¹⁴ For, by one offering, hath he perfected for evermore, them who are being made holy.

¹ Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, unto them who have obtained, equally precious, faith, with us, in the righteousness of our God, and Saviour Jesus Christ,

⁸ He that is committing sin, is, of the adversary, because, from the beginning, the adversary is sinning. To this end, was the Son of God made manifest, in order that he might undo the works of the adversary.

⁷ And, unto the messenger of the assembly, in Philadelphia, write:––These things, saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no one shall shut, and shutteth and no one openeth:

⁶ And I saw another messenger, flying in mid–heaven, having an age–abiding glad–message to announce unto them who are dwelling upon the earth, even unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people,

²⁵ Then said the king unto Zadok, Take back the ark of God into the city,––if I find favour in the eyes of Yahweh, then will he bring me back, and let me see both him and his habitation,

²⁴ Then ceased the work of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,––yea it did cease, until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

¹ Then, Darius the king, issued an edict,––and they made search in the house of the books, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon. ² And there was found in Achmetha, in the fortress which is in the province of Media, a roll,––and, thus, was it written therein, as a record:–– ³ In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king, issued an edict, as to the house of God in Jerusalem, Let the house be built, the place where they used to offer sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be reared,––the height thereof, sixty cubits, the breadth thereof, sixty cubits; ⁴ layers of large stones, three, and one layer of new timber,––and, as for the expenses, out of the house of the king, let them be given. ⁵ Moreover also, the utensils of the house of God, of gold and silver, which, Nebuchadnezzar, took forth out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, let them again be taken to the temple which is in Jerusalem every one to its place, and lay them up in the house of God. ⁶ Now, therefore, Tattenai pasha Beyond the River, Shethar–bozenai, and their associates, the Apharsachites, who are Beyond the River,––be ye far from thence: ⁷ let alone the work of this house of God,––the pasha of Judah, and the elders of Judah, this house of God, shall build upon its place; ⁸ And, from me, is issued an edict, as to that which ye shall do, with these elders of Judah, for the building of this house of God,––That, of the resources of the king, even the tribute Beyond the River, forthwith, the expenses be given unto these men, for they must not be hindered. ⁹ And, whatever may be the need––whether young bullocks or rams or lambs for ascending–sacrifices unto the God of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine or oil, according to the command of the priests who are in Jerusalem,––that it he given to them day by day, without fail; ¹⁰ that they may be offering sweet–smelling sacrifices unto the God of the heavens,––and be praying for the life of the king, and his sons. ¹¹ And, from me, is issued an edict, that, any man who shall alter this message, let timber be torn out of his house, and being lifted up let him be fastened thereunto,––and his house, a dunghill, be made for this; ¹² and, the God who hath caused his Name to dwell there, destroy any king or people, who shall put forth their hand to alter to destroy this house of God, which is in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued an edict, forthwith, let it be done.
¹³ Then, Tattenai the pasha Beyond the River, Shethar–bozenai, and their associates,––according as Darius the king had sent, so, forthwith, they did. ¹⁴ And, the elders of the Jews, went on building and prospering, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo,––they both built and finished, owing to the edict of the God of Israel, and owing to the edict of Cyrus and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. ¹⁵ And this house was finished, by the third day of the month Adar,––the which was the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

¹ Now, after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra,––son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah;

⁸ And he entered Jerusalem, in the fifth month,––the same, was the seventh year of the king.

¹¹ Now, this, is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave, to Ezra the priest the scribe,––the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes, for Israel:–– ¹² Artaxerxes, king of kings, Unto Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of the heavens––To despatch and so forth. ¹³ From me, is issued an edict, that, every one in my kingdom, of the people of Israel, and of their priests and the Levites, who is minded of his own freewill to go to Jerusalem, with thee, let him go. ¹⁴ Forasmuch as, from before the king and his seven counselors, thou art sent, to enquire concerning Judah and as to Jerusalem,––by the law of thy God which is in thy hand; ¹⁵ and to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, who, in Jerusalem, hath his habitation; ¹⁶ and all the silver and the gold, which thou shalt find, in all the province of Babylon,––with the freewill offering of the people and of the priests offered willingly for the house of their God which is in Jerusalem, ¹⁷ therefore, with all diligence, shalt thou buy––with this silver––bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meal–offerings, and their drink–offerings,––and shalt offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem; ¹⁸ and, whatsoever, unto thee and unto thy brethren, shall seem good, with the rest of the silver and the gold, to do, according to the pleasure of your God, shall ye do. ¹⁹ And, the utensils which are freely given to thee for the service of the house of thy God, put thou back, before the God of Jerusalem. ²⁰ And, the rest of the need of the house of thy God, which it shall fall to thee to give, thou shalt give, out of the treasure–house of the king. ²¹ And, from me myself, Artaxerxes the king, issueth an edict, to all the treasurers who are Beyond the River,––that, whatsoever Ezra the priest the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens shall ask of you, with diligence, shall it be done: ²² unto a hundred talents of silver, and unto a hundred measures of wheat, and unto a hundred baths of wine, and unto a hundred baths of oil,––and salt without limit. ²³ Whatsoever is due to an edict of the God of the heavens, let it be done diligently, for the house of the God of the heavens,––for wherefore should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons? ²⁴ And, you, we do certify, that, as touching any of the priests or the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the Nethinim, or the servitors of this house of God, tribute, excise or toll, shall it not be competent to impose upon them. ²⁵ And, thou, Ezra, according to the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint thou judges and magistrates, who shall administer justice to all the people that are Beyond the River, to all who know the law of thy God,––and, whoso knoweth not, ye shall teach. ²⁶ But, whosoever shall not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, speedily, let, penalty, be exacted from him,––whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

¹ And it came to pass, in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that, wine, was before him,––so I took up the wine, and gave unto the king, and I had never been sad before him. ² Then said the king unto me, Wherefore is thy countenance sad, seeing that, thou, art not sick? this is nothing else, but sadness of heart. Then feared I exceedingly, ³ and said unto the king––Let the, king, unto times age–abiding, live! Wherefore should my countenance, not be sad, when, the city––the place of the sepulchres of my fathers, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? ⁴ Then the king said to me, Concerning what, is it, thou, wouldst make request? So I prayed unto the God of the heavens, ⁵ and then said unto the king, If, unto the king, it seemeth good, and if thy servant might find favour before thee, That thou wouldst send me unto Judah, unto the city of the sepulchres of my fathers, that I might build it. ⁶ And the king said unto me, the queen, also sitting beside him, For how long would be thy journey? and when wouldst thou return? So it seemed good before the king to send me, and I set him a time. ⁷ Then said I unto the king, If, unto the king, it seemeth good, may, letters, be given me, unto the pashas Beyond the River,––that they may convey me over, until I come into Judah; ⁸ also a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the park that belongeth unto the king, that he may give me timber to build up the gates of the fortress which pertaineth to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house whereinto I shall enter. And the king gave me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

¹ Then arose Eliashib the high priest and his brethren the priests, and built the sheep–gate, they, hallowed it, and set up the doors thereof,––even unto the tower of Hammeah, hallowed they it, unto the tower of Hananel;

⁸ and they conspired, all of them together, to come, to fight against Jerusalem,––and to cause it harm;

¹⁶ And it came to pass, from that day, the half of my young men, were working in the work, and, the half of them, were grasping the spears, the bucklers, and the bows, and the coats of mail,––but, the rulers, were behind all the house of Judah. ¹⁷ They who were building at the wall and they who were carrying burdens, they who were lifting, [each man], with his one hand, was working at the work, and, with the other, was grasping the weapon. ¹⁸ Even they who were building, every man, had his sword girded upon his loins, and so was building,––and, he that sounded the horn, was by my side.

¹⁵ So the wall was finished, on the twenty–fifth of Elul,––in fifty–two days.

¹⁰ For mine enemies have spoken of me, And, they who watch for my life, have taken counsel together;

⁶ For, A Child, hath been born to us, A Son, hath been given to us, And the dominion is upon his shoulder,––And his Name hath been called, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty GOD, Father of Futurity, Prince of Prosperity.

⁴ Lo! As a witness to the peoples, have I given him,––As a leader and commander, to the peoples:

¹¹ even as far as the ruler of the host, shewed he his greatness,––and, because of him, was taken away the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and the place of the sanctuary, was cast down;

²⁵ and, by his cunning, will he both cause deceit to succeed in his hand, and, in his own heart, will he shew himself to be great, and, by their careless security, will he destroy many,––and, against the ruler of rulers, will he stand up, but, without hand, shall be broken in pieces.

²³ At the beginning of thy supplications, came forth a word, I, therefore, am arrived to tell, because, a man delighted in, thou art,––mark then the word, and have understanding in the revelation:––

² Thou, therefore, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though, little, to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee, shall Mine come forth, to be ruler in Israel,––whose comings forth, have been from of old, from the days of age–past time.

²³ But, he on the good ground sown, the same, is he who doth hear and understand the word, who, indeed, beareth fruit and produceth,––this, a hundred, and, that, sixty, and, the other, thirty.

²⁵ The woman saith unto him––I know that, Messiah, cometh, who is called Christ,––Whensoever, he, shall come, he will tell us, everything.

¹⁵ But, the Princely Leader of Life, ye slew:––whom, God, raised from among the dead, whereof, we, are witnesses.

³¹ Him, as Princely–leader and Saviour, hath God exalted unto his right hand,––to give repentance unto Israel, and remission of sins.

³⁰ And, running near, Philip heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said––Dost thou, then, understand what thou art reading?

¹⁶ Buying out for yourselves the opportunity, because, the days, are evil;

⁵ and from––Jesus Christ,––The Faithful Witness, The Firstborn of the Dead, and The Ruler of the Kings of the Earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us out of our sins with his blood,––

¹⁶ And he hath, upon his mantle and upon his thigh, a name, written––King of kings, and Lord of lords.

¹⁵ Dried as a potsherd, is my strength, And, my tongue, is made to cleave to my gums, And, in the dust of death, wilt thou lay me.

⁷ now therefore, lo! the Lord is about to bring up against them, the waters, strong and many, of the River[=Euphrates], even the king of Assyria, and all his glory,––and he shall rise over all his channels, and flow over all his banks;

⁸ By constraint and by sentence, was he taken away, And, of his age, who considered, That he was cut off out of the land of the living, For my people’s transgression, did the stroke fall on him?

⁷ Who is, it that is like the Nile when it riseth, Like rivers when his waters are tossed?

²⁷ And he will confirm a covenant to the many, for one week,––but, in the middle of the week, will cause sacrifice and present to cease, and, in his stead, [shall be] the horrid abomination that astoundeth, even till, a full end, and that a decreed one, shall be poured out on him that astoundeth.

¹⁰ But, his sons, will rouse themselves to war, and gather together a multitude of large armies, but he will come on and on, and overflow and pass through,––and will return and wage war, up to his fortress.

¹⁷ Then will he set his face to enter, with the might of all his kingdom, and, equitable terms with him, will make,––and, a daughter of women, will he give him to corrupt her, but she will not remain, nor, his, shall she become.

⁹ Then said he, Call his name Lo–ammi[=" No people of mine"], ––for ye are Lo–ammi ["No people of mine"], and, I, will not be yours.

⁸ Is it not, for this, that the land, shall tremble? and shall mourn every inhabitant therein? Shall it not come up––like the Nile, all of it, and be tossed and subside like the river of Egypt?

⁵ Now, My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is he––who toucheth the earth, and it melteth, and all that dwell therein, mourn; and it cometh up like the Nile, all of it, and subsideth like the river of Egypt:

⁸ But, with an overflow rolling on, a full end, will he make of them who rise up against him,––and, his foes, will he pursue into darkness.

² The kingdom of the heavens hath become like a man, a king,––who made a marriage–feast for his son;

⁷ And, the king, was provoked to anger,––and, sending his armies, destroyed those murderers, and, their city, set on fire.

³⁸ Lo! your house is left to you;

² But, he, answering, said unto them––Are ye not beholding all these things? Verily, I say unto you––in no wise, shall there be left here, stone upon stone, which shall not be thrown down.

⁶ Moreover ye will be sure to be hearing of wars, and rumours of wars: Mind! be not alarmed, for it must needs happen,––but, not yet, is, the end; ⁷ For there will arise––nation against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,––and there will be famines and earthquakes, in places. ⁸ But, all these things, are a beginning of birth–pangs. ⁹ Then, will they deliver you up into tribulation, and will slay you,––and ye will be men hated by all the nations, because of my name ¹⁰ And, then, will many be caused to stumble, and, one another, will deliver up, and will hate one another; ¹¹ And, many false prophets, will arise, and deceive, many; ¹² And, because of lawlessness being brought to the full, the love of the many, will grew cold. ¹³ But, he that hath endured throughout, the same, shall be saved. ¹⁴ And this glad message of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the inhabited earth, for a witness unto all the nations,––and, then, will have come, the end.

¹² And, he, said unto them––Elijah, indeed, coming first, restoreth all things; and yet, how is it written, regarding the Son of Man, that, many things, he must suffer, and be set at nought?

² And, Jesus, said unto him––Art thou beholding these great buildings? In nowise, shall there be left here, stone upon stone, which shall, in any wise, not be thrown down.

⁷ And, when ye shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars, be not alarmed––it must needs come to pass, but, not yet, is, the end.

⁴³ Because days will have come upon thee, that thine enemies will throw around a rampart against thee, and enclose thee; and hem thee in from every side,–– ⁴⁴ And will level thee with the ground, and thy children within thee, and will not leave, stone on stone, within thee: because thou didst not get to know the season of thy visitation.

⁶ As to these things, which ye are looking upon, There will come days, in which there will not be left here, stone upon stone, which will not be taken down.

²⁴ And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried away captive into all the nations, and, Jerusalem, shall be trodden down by the nations, until the seasons of the nations shall be fulfilled [and shall be].

²⁶ Was it not needful for the Christ, these very things, to suffer, and to enter into his glory?

⁴⁶ and said unto them––Thus, it is written, That the Christ, should suffer, and arise from among the dead on the third day;

⁵¹ This, however, from himself, he spake not, but, being, High–priest, for that year, he prophesied, that Jesus was about to die for the nation; ⁵² and, not for the nation only, but that, the scattered children of God also, he might gather together into one.

³² And, I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw, all, unto myself. ³³ But, this, he was saying, signifying, by what manner of death, he was about to die. ³⁴ The multitude, therefore, answered him––We, have heard, out of the law, that, the Christ, abideth evermore; How then dost, thou, say,––It behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?

³⁰ No longer, many things, will I speak with you; for, the world’s ruler, is coming, and, in me, hath, nothing,––

¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said––This man, ceaseth not speaking things against this holy place and the law; ¹⁴ For we have heard him saying––This Jesus the Nazarene, will overthrow this place, and will change the customs which, Moses, delivered unto us.

²¹ Him who knew not sin, in our behalf, he made to be, sin, that we might become God’s righteousness in him.

¹³ Christ, hath redeemed, us, out of the curse of the law, having become, in our behalf, a curse; ––because it is written––Cursed, is every one that hangeth upon a tree; ––

²¹ For, hereunto, have ye been called; because, Christ also, suffered in your behalf, unto you, leaving behind a pattern, that ye might follow in his steps:

²⁴ Who, our sins, himself, bare up, in his body, unto the tree, in order that we, from our sins getting away, in righteousness, might live,––by whose stripes, ye have been healed;

¹⁸ Because, Christ also, once for all, concerning sins, died,––Just in behalf of unjust,––in order that he might introduce us unto God; being put to death, indeed, in flesh, but made alive in spirit,––

²⁶ I take both the heavens and the earth to witness against you, today, that ye shall, perish, speedily from off the land which ye, are passing over the Jordan to possess,––ye shall not prolong your days thereupon; for, ye shall surely be laid waste; ²⁷ and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples,––and ye shall have left remaining of you, men easily counted, among the nations whither Yahweh will drive you; ²⁸ and ye will serve, there, gods made by the hands of man,––wood or stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

¹⁸ Lest there be among you––a man or a woman, or a family or a tribe, whose heart is turning today, from Yahweh our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations,––lest there be among you, a root fruitful of poison and wormwood; ¹⁹ and so it come to pass, while he is hearing the words of this oath, that he will bless himself in his heart––saying, Prosperity, shall I have, although, in the stubbornness of my heart, I go on,––so that the drunkenness addeth to the thirst:

¹⁷ But, if thy heart shall turn away, and thou wilt, not hearken,––but shalt be drawn away, and shalt bow thyself down to other gods, and serve them, ¹⁸ I declare unto you, today, that ye shall perish,––ye shall not prolong your days, upon the soil which thou art passing over the Jordan to enter and possess.

²⁸ Call together unto me, all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,––and let me speak in their hearing these words, and let me take to witness against them the heavens and the earth. ²⁹ For I know that, after my death, ye will, break faith, and turn aside out of the way which I have commanded you,––and calamity will befall you, in the afterpart of the days, because ye will do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him with the work of your own hands.

¹⁹ When Yahweh saw, he derided,––Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation. ²⁰ So he said:––I will hide any face from them, I will see, what will be their hereafter,––For, a generation given to intrigue, they are, Sons, whom there is no trusting; ²¹ They, have moved me to jealousy with a No–GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy, with a No–people, With an impious nation, will I anger them. ²² For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath,––And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains: ²³ I will heap on them, calamities,––Mine arrows, will I spend upon them: ²⁴ The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence,––And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust: ²⁵ Without, shall the sword bereave, In the inmost recesses, terror,––[To] both young man and virgin, Suckling, with man of grey hairs.
²⁶ I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory; ²⁷ Were it not that, the taunt of the foe, I feared, Lest their adversaries should mistake,––Lest they should say––Our own hand, is exalted, It is, not Yahweh, therefore, who hath wrought all this! ²⁸ For, a nation of vanished sagacity, they are,––And there is in them no understanding. ²⁹ If they had been wise, they would have understood this,––They would have given heed to their hereafter! ³⁰ Oh! how would, one, have chased, a thousand! And, two, put, ten thousand, to flight,––Were it not that, their Rock, had sold them, And, Yahweh, had abandoned them; ³¹ For, not like our Rock, is their rock,––Our enemies themselves, being judges; ³² For, of the vine of Sodom, is their vine, And of the vineyards of Gomorrah,––Their grapes, are grapes of gall, Clusters of bitter things, are theirs: ³³ The poison of large serpents, is their wine,––Yea the fierce venom of asps. ³⁴ Is not, that, stored up with me,––Sealed up amongst my treasures; ³⁵ Unto the days of vengeance and requital: Unto the time their foot shall totter? For, near, is the day of their fate, And their destiny speedeth on. ³⁶ For Yahweh will vindicate his people, And, upon his servants, will have compassion,––When he seeth that strength is exhausted, And there is no one shut up or at large, ³⁷ Then will he say, Where are their gods, The rock, in whom they have trusted; ³⁸ Who used to eat, the fat of their sacrifices, To drink the wine of their libations? Let them rise up, and help you, Let them be over you for a coveting!
³⁹ See, now, that, I, I, am, he that is, And there are no gods with me,––I, kill––and make alive, I wound, and, I, heal, And there, is none, who, from my hand, can deliver, ⁴⁰ For I lift up unto the heavens my hand,––And say, Living, am, I, unto times age–abiding: ⁴¹ If I whet my flashing sword, And my hand take hold on justice, I will return vengeance unto mine adversaries, And, them who hate me, will I requite: ⁴² I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And, my sword, shall devour flesh,––With, the blood of the slain, and the captive, With [the flesh of] the chief leader of the foe. ⁴³ Shout for joy O ye nations [with] his people, For, the blood of his servants, he avengeth,––And, vengeance, he returneth unto his adversaries, And is propitious unto the soil of his people.
⁴⁴ So Moses came in and spake all the words of this Song in the hearing of the people,––he and Hoshea, son of Nun.

²² Let their table, before them, become a snare, And unto their friends, a lure; ²³ Let their eyes become too dim to see, And, their loins, continually cause thou to shake; ²⁴ Pour out over them thine indignation, And let, the glow of thine anger, overtake them: ²⁵ Let their encampment become desolate, In their tents, be there none to dwell: ²⁶ For, whom, thou thyself, hadst smitten, they pursued, And, unto the pain of thy wounded ones, they must needs add. ²⁷ Lay punishment on their iniquity, And let them not enter into thy righteousness; ²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And, with the righteous, let them not be enrolled.

²² For, though thy people, O Israel, shall be as the sand of the sea, A [mere] remnant, shall return of them,––A full end decreed, bringeth in, justice, like a flood; ²³ For, a full end and that a decreed one, is My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, executing in the midst of all the earth.

²² Now, therefore, do not show yourselves scoffers, Lest your fetters, be bound fast,––For, of a full end, and that a decreed one, have I heard from My Lord Yahweh of hosts, upon all the land.

⁶ I––Yahweh, have called thee in righteousness, And will firmly grasp thy hand,––And will keep thee, And give thee––As the covenant of a people, As the light of nations:

¹¹ Of the travail of his soul, shall he see, He shall be satisfied with his knowledge, A setting right, when set right himself, shall my Servant win for the Many, Since, of their iniquities, he, taketh the burden.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live,––That I may solemnise for you a covenant age–abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well–assured.

³¹ Lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh,––When I will solemnize––With the house of Israel, and, With the house of Judah, A new, covenant: ³² Not like the covenant which I solemnised with their fathers, In the day when I grasped their hand, to bring them forth, out of the land of Egypt,––In that, they, brake my covenant, Though, I, had become a husband unto them, Declareth Yahweh. ³³ For, this, is the covenant which I will solemnize with the house of Israel, after those days, Declareth Yahweh, I will put my law within, them, Yea, on their heart, will I write it,––So will I become their, God, And, they, shall become my, people. ³⁴ Then shall they no longer teach, Every man his neighbour, and, Every man his brother, saying, Know ye Yahweh,––For, they all, shall know, me, From the least of them, Even unto the greatest of them, Declareth Yahweh, For I will forgive their iniquity, And, their sin, will I remember, no more.

⁴⁰ And I will solemnise to them, an age–abiding covenant, That I will not turn away from following them, to do them good,––But, the reverence of myself, will I put in their heart, so that they shall not turn away from me. ⁴¹ And I will rejoice over them, to do them good,––And will plant them in this land, in truth, with all my heart, and with all my soul. ⁴² For, Thus, saith Yahweh, Like as I have brought upon this people, all this great calamity, So, am I, bringing upon them all the good that I, am speaking concerning them.

⁶⁰ Therefore will, I, remember my covenant with thee, in the days of thy youth,––And will establish for thee, a covenant age–abiding. ⁶¹ Thou shalt therefore remember thy ways, and take to thyself reproach, by receiving thy sisters, The older than thou, And the younger than thou,––And I will give them unto thee for daughters, Though not by thine own covenant. ⁶² But, I myself, will establish my covenant with, thee––And thou shalt know, that, I, am Yahweh: ⁶³ To the end thou mayest remember, and turn pale, and there be to thee, no more, an opening of mouth, because of thy reproach,––In that I have accepted a propitiatory covering for thee, as to all that thou hast done, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹³ Then heard I a certain holy one, speaking,––and another holy one said to that certain holy one who was speaking––How long is the vision of the continual [ascending–sacrifice] as taken away, and the transgression which astoundeth, for both sanctuary and host to be given over to be trampled underfoot?

³⁶ And the king, will do according to his own pleasure, and will exalt himself, and magnify himself against every GOD, yea, against the GOD of GODS, will he speak wonderful things,––and will succeed, until exhausted is the indignation, for, what is decreed, must be done;

¹¹ and, from the time of the taking away of the continual [ascending–sacrifice], and the placing of the horrid abomination that astoundeth, [shall be] one thousand two hundred and ninety days.

²⁸ For, this, is my blood of the covenant, which, for many, is to be poured out, for remission of sins.

⁵¹ And lo! the veil of the Temple, was rent, from top to bottom, into two; and, the earth, was shaken, and, the rocks, were rent;

²⁰ But whensoever ye shall see Jerusalem, encompassed by armies, then, know, that her desolation hath drawn near.

¹⁵ But, not as the fault, so, [also] the decree of favour, for, if, by the fault of the one, the many died, much more, the favour of God and the free–gift in favour, by the one man Jesus Christ, unto the many superabounded;

¹⁹ For, just as, through the disobedience of the one man, sinners, the many were constituted, so, also, through the obedience of the one, righteous, the many shall be constituted––

²⁶ And, so, all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written––There shall have come out of Zion the Deliverer,––He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

⁸ For I affirm Christ to have become a minister of circumcision in behalf of the truth of God,––to confirm the promises of the fathers, ⁹ And that, the nations, for mercy should glorify God:––even as it is written––For this cause, will I openly confess unto thee among nations, and, unto thy name, will strike the strings;

¹³ Christ, hath redeemed, us, out of the curse of the law, having become, in our behalf, a curse; ––because it is written––Cursed, is every one that hangeth upon a tree; –– ¹⁴ In order that, unto the nations, the blessing of Abraham, might come about in Jesus Christ,––in order that, the promise of the Spirit, we might receive through means of the faith. ¹⁵ Brethren! in human fashion, am I speaking: yet still, a man’s confirmed covenant, no one setteth aside or addeth unto: ¹⁶ Now, unto Abraham, were spoken the promises––and unto his seed; ––He saith not––and unto thy seeds, as of many, but, as of one––and unto thy seed, which is Christ: ¹⁷ And, this, I say––a covenant previously confirmed by God, the law which, after four hundred and thirty years, hath been brought into being, doth not annul, so as to do away with the promise.

¹³ For, when to Abraham God made promise, seeing he had no one greater by whom to swear, He sware, by himself,–– ¹⁴ saying––Truly, if blessing I will bless thee, and, multiplying, I will multiply thee; ¹⁵ And, thus, being patient, he attained unto the promise. ¹⁶ For, men, by the greater one, swear, and, with them, an end of all gainsaying by way of confirmation is, the oath: ¹⁷ Wherein God, being, more abundantly disposed to shew forth unto the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his counsel, mediated, with an oath,–– ¹⁸ In order that, through means of two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to make himself false, a mighty consolation, we might have, who have fled along to grasp, the fore–lying hope,

⁸ For, finding fault with them, he saith––Lo! days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude, for the house of Israel and the house of Judah, a covenant of a new sort: ⁹ Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by their hand, to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt,––because, they, abode not in my covenant, and, I, disregarded them, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ Because, this, is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord:––giving my laws into their understanding, upon their hearts also, will I inscribe them: and I will become their God, and, they, shall become my people; ¹¹ And in nowise shall they teach––every one his fellow–citizen, and every one his brother, saying,––Get to know the Lord! Because, all, shall know me, from the least unto the greatest of them; ¹² Because, propitious, will I be as to their unrighteousnesses, and, of their sins, in nowise will I be mindful, any more. ¹³ In saying, Of a new sort, he hath made obsolete, the first; but, the thing that is becoming obsolete and aged, is near, disappearing!

¹⁵ And, for this cause, of a new covenant, is he mediator,––to the end that, death coming to pass for the redemption of the transgressions against the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the age–abiding inheritance; ¹⁶ For, where a covenant is, it is necessary for, the death, to be brought in, of him that hath covenanted; ¹⁷ For, a covenant over dead persons, is firm,––since it is not then of force when he is living that hath covenanted. ¹⁸ Whence, not even the first, apart from blood, hath been consecrated; ¹⁹ For, when every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses unto all the people, taking the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, both, the scroll itself, and all the people, he sprinkled; ²⁰ Saying––This, is the blood of the covenant which, God, hath sent in command unto you:

²⁸ Thus, the Christ also, once for all having been offered, for the bearing of the sins, of many, a second time, apart from sin, will appear, to them who for him are ardently waiting––unto salvation.

⁴ For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to be taking away sins. ⁵ Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and offering, thou willedst not, but, a body, hast thou fitted for me,–– ⁶ In whole–burnt–offerings and sacrifices for sins, thou didst not delight:
⁷ Then, said I––Lo! I am come,––in the heading of the scroll, it is written concerning me,––to do, O God, thy will. ⁸ Higher up, saying––Sacrifices, and offerings, and whole–burnt–offerings, and sacrifices for sins, thou willedst not, neither delightedst in,––the which, according to the law, are offered, ⁹ Then, hath he said––Lo! I am come! to do, thy will:––he taketh away the first, that, the second, he may establish: ¹⁰ By which will, we have been made holy, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all. ¹¹ And, every priest, indeed, standeth daily publicly ministering, and the same sacrifices ofttimes offering, the which never can clear away sins; ¹² But this priest, having offered one sacrifice for sins evermore, sat down on the right hand of God: ¹³ As for the rest, waiting––until his foes be made his footstool; ¹⁴ For, by one offering, hath he perfected for evermore, them who are being made holy. ¹⁵ But even the Holy Spirit beareth us witness; for, after having said–– ¹⁶ This is the covenant which I will covenant unto them after these days, saith the Lord,––Giving my laws upon their hearts, upon their understandings also, will I inscribe them, ¹⁷ [He] also [saith]––of their sins, and of their lawlessnesses, I will in nowise be mindful any more. ¹⁸ But, wherever a remission of these is, there is, no further, offering, for sins.
¹⁹ Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entrance through the Holy place, by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ Which entrance he hath consecrated for us, as a way recent and living, through the veil, that is, his flesh,–– ²¹ And having a great priest over the house of God, ²² Let us approach with a genuine heart, in full assurance of faith, having been sprinkled, as to our hearts, from an evil conscience, and bathed, as to our bodies, with pure water;

²⁰ But, the God of peace, He that led up from among the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of an age–abiding covenant,––our Lord Jesus, ²¹ Fit you, by every good work, for the doing of his will, doing within us, that which is well–pleasing, before him through Jesus Christ: to whom be the glory, unto the ages of ages. Amen.