Deuteronomy 29 Cross References - Thomson

¹ These were the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to state to the children of Israel, in the land of Moab, over and above the covenant which he had made with them at Choreb. ² Then Moses called all the sons of Israel, and said to them, You have seen all the things which the Lord did in Egypt, before your eyes, to Pharao and his servants, and all his land; ³ those great trials which your eyes have seen, those signs, and those great wonders. ⁴ Now hath not the Lord God given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, even at this day? ⁵ When he led you forty years in the wilderness, your clothes did not grow too old, nor were your shoes worn out from your feet. ⁶ You did not eat bread, nor drink wine, nor strong drink, that you might know that the Lord lam is your God. ⁷ And when you came to this place, and Seon, king of Esebon, and Og king of Basan, came out to meet us in battle, we smote them, ⁸ and took their land, and I have given it to Reuben, and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses: ⁹ you shall therefore be careful to perform all the words of this covenant. In order that you might fully comprehend all that you are to do, ¹⁰ you have this day stood, all of you, before the Lord your God, the chiefs of your tribes, and your senate, and your judges, and your officers, every man of Israel, ¹¹ your wives, and your children, and the stranger who is in your camp, from the hewer of wood to the drawer of water, ¹² to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, and into the curses which the Lord thy God this day stateth to thee, ¹³ that he may establish thee a people for himself. So he himself will be thy God, as he said to thee, and as he hath sworn to thy fathers, Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob. ¹⁴ Now I make this covenant, and this oath, not with you only, ¹⁵ but both with those who are here this day, with you before the Lord your God, and with those who are not here with you this day. ¹⁶ Inasmuch as you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and have seen, as we passed through the nations, through which you passed, ¹⁷ their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them; ¹⁸ is there any man among you, or any woman, or family, or tribe, whose understanding hath turned them from the Lord your God, to go and serve the gods of those nations? Is there any such root among you, springing up for gall and bitterness? ¹⁹ Now in case any one shall hear the words of this curse, and bless himself in his heart, saying, Good luck betide me! I will walk in the error of my own heart, that the sinner may not involve the guiltless in ruin with himself. ²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ The Lord will indeed separate him, from all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book of the law. ²² And when the generations to come; your children who shall rise up after yon, and the stranger who may come from a far distant country, will say; when they shall see the plagues of that land, and the diseases thereof, which the Lord hath sent upon it; ²³ brimstone and burnt salt; when through the whole land there shall be no sowing; no natural productions, no verdure on it, a destruction like that of Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord overthrew with wrath and indignation; ²⁴ When all the nations shall say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land? What hath occasioned this great fierceness of indignation? ²⁵ Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, ²⁶ and went and served strange gods, which they did not know, and which he had not arranged for them, ²⁷ therefore the Lord was provoked to wrath against this land, to bring upon it all the curses which are written in the book of the law; ²⁸ and the Lord rooted them out from their land, with wrath, and anger, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land, as at this day. ²⁹ The things which are secret are for the Lord our God; but the things which are manifest are for us and our children forever, that we may perform all the words of this law;

³ Moses went up to the mount of God. And God called to him out of the mount and said, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and announce to the children of Israel; ⁴ You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians; and how I have taken you up as on the wings of eagles and brought you to myself. ⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine:

² and let Moses alone approach near to God. As for them they shall not approach near; nor shall the people come up with them. ³ So Moses came and told the people all the words of God and the rules of rectitude, and all the people with one voice answered and said, All the words which the Lord hath spoken we will perform and we will be obedient. ⁴ Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morning Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; ⁵ and he sent out the young men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord. ⁶ And Moses took half of the blood and poured it into bowls, and the other half of the blood he poured out against the altar. ⁷ Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do and we will be obedient. ⁸ Thereupon Moses took the blood and scattered it towards the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you touching all these words.

⁴⁴ [as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God] ⁴⁵ then will I remember the covenant with them; that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage, to be their God. I am the Lord;

¹⁰ that day when you stood in the presence of the Lord our God at Choreb, on the day of the solemn assembly. For the Lord said to me, Assemble the people before me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth. And let them teach their children.

¹³ And when he had declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments, he wrote them on two tables of stone.

²³ take heed to yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and transgress and make for yourselves a graven image of any of the things about which the Lord thy God hath given thee a charge;

² The Lord your God made a covenant with you at Choreb. ³ It was not only with your fathers that the Lord made this covenant, but with you also; with you who are all here alive this day.

¹² to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God, and into the curses which the Lord thy God this day stateth to thee,

²¹ The Lord will indeed separate him, from all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book of the law.

²⁵ Then they will say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

³ the king stood before the pillar and made a covenant in the presence of the Lord to follow the Lord; to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul; to conform to the terms of the covenant, the things written in the book. And all the people joined in the covenant.

² Hear ye the words of this covenant: and thou shalt speak to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem

⁶ Then the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem, and say, Hear the words of this covenant and do them.

³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not abide by this covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them.

¹⁸ I will indeed give up the men who have transgressed my covenant; them, who have not stood to this covenant of mine which they entered into in my presence; as the labouring bullock which they sacrificed

²⁵ You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham "And by thy seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

⁹ not such a covenant as I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt; because they did not abide by that covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them, saith the Lord.

¹² Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharao; and Moses cried to the Lord for the performance of the promise touching the frogs as Pharao had stated.

⁴ You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians; and how I have taken you up as on the wings of eagles and brought you to myself.

⁵ I smote Egypt with signal miracles, which I did among them. ⁶ Now after this he brought our fathers out of Egypt, and you marched into the Red sea; and when the Egyptians pursued our fathers, with horses and chariots, into the Red sea,

⁴³ how he had displayed his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the plain of Tanis; ⁴⁴ and had turned their rivers into blood, and their cisterns so that they could not drink; ⁴⁵ had sent against them the dog fly which devoured them, and swarms of frogs which destroyed them; ⁴⁶ and had given their crops to the canker Worm, and their labours to the locust; ⁴⁷ had smitten their vineyards with hail, and their sycamine trees with frost; ⁴⁸ and delivered up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire; ⁴⁹ having sent out against them his fierce anger, wrath and indignation and affliction; a mission executed by evil angels: ⁵⁰ he paved a way for his vengeance; he spared not their lives from death: he delivered up their cattle to pestilence, ⁵¹ and smote every first born in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham;

²⁷ to them he committed the words of his signs; of his wonders in the land of Cham. ²⁸ He sent forth darkness and it was dark. When they made his words bitter, ²⁹ he turned their waters into blood, and made a slaughter of their fishes; ³⁰ their land swarmed with frogs, in the inmost chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spake and the dog fly came, and stinging gnats in all their borders; ³² he made his showers, hail, flaming fire in all their land; ³³ he smote their vines and their fig trees, and broke every tree of their border. ³⁴ He spake, and the grasshopper came, and the brouchus locust in swarms innumerable, ³⁵ and devoured every herb in their country, and ate up the fruit of their land. ³⁶ Then he smote every first born of their land; the first fruits of all their labour;

³² Enquire of the days which are past; those which were before thee, from the day God created man on the earth, and from one end of heaven to the other; hath there ever been any thing like this great thing? Hath any thing been heard like it? ³³ Hath any nation heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and are still alive? ³⁴ Or hath God come, and made trial to take for himself a nation out of the midst of a nation, by trials, and by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and with a strong hand, and an outstretched arm, and with great visions, according to all that the Lord our God hath done in Egypt, before thine eyes? ³⁵ So that thou must needs know that the Lord thy God is very God, and that there is none else besides him.

¹⁸ Be not afraid of them; but keep up a lively remembrance of all that the Lord thy God did to Pharao, and to all the Egyptians; ¹⁹ the great trials which thine eyes have seen,; the signs and great wonders; the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm; As the Lord thy God brought thee out, so will the Lord your God deal with all the nations, of whom you are afraid.

⁹ "Thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and didst hear their cry at the Red Sea: ¹⁰ and having shewn signs and wonders in Egypt on Pharao and on all his servants and on all his people, because thou knewest that they had behaved proudly against them, and made thyself a name as at this day, ¹¹ thou didst cleave the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry ground, but those who were pursuing thou didst cast into the deep like a stone in boisterous water.

³⁰ But Seon, king of Esebon, would not consent that we should pass by him, for the Lord our God had emboldened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as at this day.

¹² The ear heareth and the eye seeth; and both are the work of the Lord.

⁹ And he said, "Go and say to this people; hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand: and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive: ¹⁰ for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them.

¹⁷ why, O Lord hast thou suffered us to wander from thy way, and our hearts to be hardened so as not to fear thee? Return for the sake of thy servants; for the sake of the tribes of thy heritage,

²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh:

¹¹ And he in reply said to them, To you it hath been granted to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens; but to them it hath not been granted. ¹² For to him who improveth, more shall be given and he shall abound: but from him who improveth not, even that which he hath shall be taken. ¹³ To them I speak in parables for this reason, because they overlook what they see, and are inattentive to what they hear; and they do not understand, ¹⁴ and in them is fulfilled this prophesy of Esaias, which saith, "Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand, and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive; ¹⁵ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return that I may heal them."

⁴³ Why do ye not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear this doctrine of mine.

³⁸ so that the word of the prophet Esaias was confirmed, which he spoke, Lord who hath believed our report, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? ³⁹ It was because they were not enabled to believe that in another place Esaias said, ⁴⁰ He hath blinded their eyes, and stupified their hearts, so that they saw not with their eyes, nor understood with their heart, nor turned that I might heal them.

²⁶ saying, "Go and say to the people, Hearing you shall hear, though you may not understand; and seeing you shall see, though you may not perceive; ²⁷ for the heart of this people is callous, and their ears are dull of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn that I may heal them."

⁷ What is the inference? That which Israel sought he did not obtain; but the chosen obtained it and the rest were blinded. ⁸ As it is written, "God hath given them a spirit of stupefaction, eyes not to see and ears not to hear even to this day." ⁹ And David saith, "Let their table be for a snare and for a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them. ¹⁰ Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see, And bow down their neck continually."

¹⁵ but even at this day when Moses is read there is a veil upon their heart,

¹⁸ They having their understandings darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the blindness of their heart,

¹⁰ and with all the deceit of this unrighteousness among them who perish. Because they did not embrace the love of the truth that they might be saved; ¹¹ for this cause therefore God will send them the energy of delusion, that they may believe this falsehood; ¹² that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

²⁵ with meekness instructing opposers: perhaps God may grant them a change of mind so as to acknowledge the truth,

¹³ Let no one when tempted say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, neither doth he tempt any one. ¹⁴ But every one is tempted by his own desire, when allured and ensnared. ¹⁵ In that case desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when grown up, produceth death. ¹⁶ Be not led astray, my beloved brethren: ¹⁷ Every good donation, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will he hath impregnated us with a word of truth, that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

³ In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all that the Lord had given him in charge to them.

² and thou shalt keep in remembrance all the way which the Lord thy God led thee in the wilderness, that he might afflict thee, and prove thee, and know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or not.

⁴ Thy garments did not become too old for thee, nor were thy shoes worn out from under thee; nor the feet galled during the whole forty years;

⁵ and shoes for their feet, the under part of which were hollow, and the upper part old and clouted, and the garments they put on being worn out, and the bread for their journey dry, mouldy, and worm eaten,

¹³ these skins of wine were filled new; but they are cracked; and these our garments, and our shoes, are worn out with the length of the journey.

²¹ Thus didst thou sustain them forty years in the wilderness, not suffering them to want any thing. Their clothes did not wear out, nor were their feet galled.

³¹ Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat; or, what shall we drink; or, with what shall we be clothed? ³² For about all such things the nations are solicitous: for your heavenly father knoweth that you have need of all these things.

¹⁰ nor a scrip for the journey; nor two coats; nor pairs of sandals; nor a staff: for the workman is worthy of his sustenance.

¹² I have heard the murmuring of the Israelites. Speak to them and say, Towards evening you shall eat flesh and in the morning you shall be plentifully supplied with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord, your God.

³⁵ And the children of Israel ate this Manna forty years till they came to the inhabited land. They ate it till they came to the border of Phoenicia. Now the gomer is the tenth of the trimeter.

¹⁴ Thou art a chief! And thou hast brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey! and hast given us a portion of land, and vineyards! Fain wouldst thou put out the eyes of these men! We will not go up.

⁸ Take thy staff, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother; and speak to that rock before them, and it will give its water. And you shall bring water for them from that rock, and give drink to the congregation, and their cattle.

³ And when he had afflicted thee, and suffered thee to hunger, then he fed thee with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might shew thee, that man can live not on bread only; but that man can live on any thing which God is pleased to appoint.

¹⁵ "Thou gavest them also bread from heaven for their food, and didst bring water for them out of a rock for their thirst, ordering them to go in and take possession of the land which thou hadst stretched forth thy hand to give them.

²⁴ and had rained down manna for them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven, ²⁵ [Man was eating the bread of angels] he sent meat for them to satiety.

²⁵ Now, every one who is to contend in the public games is temperate in all things. They indeed do this that they may obtain a corruptible crown. But we [to obtain] one that is incorruptible.

⁴ and did all drink of the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock accompanying them; now that rock was the Christ.

¹⁸ And be not intoxicated with wine in which there is debauchery, but be filled with the spirit

²¹ Now Moses had sent messengers to Seon, king of the Amorites, with a message of peace, saying, ²² Let us pass through thy land. We will march by the highway; we will not turn aside into the fields, nor into the vineyards; nor will we drink water out of thy; wells. Let us march along the king's highway. until we pass thy borders. ²³ But Seon would not grant Israel a passage through his territories. He indeed assembled all his people, and went out to the wilderness, to attack Israel, and came to Jessa, and drew up in array against Israel. ²⁴ Whereupon Israel smote him with the slaughter of the sword, and took possession of his land, from Anion to Jabok, even to the Ammanites; for Jazer is the boundary of the Ammanites. ²⁵ So Israel took all those cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Hesebon, and in all those under the same dominion with it; ²⁶ for Hesebon was the city of Seon the king of the Amorites. He indeed had made war on a former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from Aroer to Arnon; ²⁷ for this cause the poets say, Come to Hesebon that it may be rebuilded, And that the city of Seon may be inhabited. ²⁸ For a fire went forth from Hesebon; And a flame from the city of Seon; Which devoured even to Moab; Which devoured the pillars of Arnon. ²⁹ Alas! for thee Moab! Thou wast undone, people of Chamos! Their sons were delivered up to save their lives; And their daughters were captives to Seon, king of the Amorites, ³⁰ And their seed was destroyed from Hesebon even to Daibon. And against Moab their wives rekindled a fire. ³¹ And when Israel had taken possession of all the cities of the Amorites: ³² Moses sent to view Jazer, and they took it, and all the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites who were there. ³³ Then they turned and went up by the way of Basan. And when Og king of Basan came out to meet them, he and all his people, for battle at Adraim ³⁴ the Lord said to Moses, Be not afraid of him; for into thy hands I will deliver him, and all his people, and all his land; And thou shalt do to him, as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Hesebon. ³⁵ So he smote him, and his sons,, and all his people, until there was not one left to be taken alive. And they took possession of their land.

³³ So Moses gave them, namely, to the Gadites and the Reubenites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and the cities, with the boundaries thereof, even the cities of the land round about. ³⁴ And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, ³⁵ and Sophar, and Jazer, and raised these, namely, ³⁶ Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the Reubenites rebuilt Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, ³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names. ³⁹ Now a descendant of Machir, son of Manasses, had gone to Galaad, and taken it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt there. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave Galaad to the community of Machir, son of Manasses, and they dwelt there. ⁴¹ And Jair, of the tribe of Manasses, went and took their sheepcots, and called them the sheepcots of Jair. ⁴² And Nabau went and took Kaath, and its villages, and called them Naboth after his own name.

²⁴ Now therefore arise, strike your tents, and cross the vale of Arnon; behold I have delivered into thy hand Seon, king of Esebon, the Amorite, with his land. Begin to take possession. Join battle with him this day.

¹⁰ It was he who smote many nations; and slew kings of mighty power; ¹¹ Seon king of the Amorites, and Og, the king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan; ¹² and gave their land for an inheritance; for an inheritance for his people Israel.

¹⁷ to him who smote great kings; for his mercy endureth forever: ¹⁸ and slew kings of mighty power: for his mercy endureth forever; ¹⁹ Seon king of the Amorites; for his mercy endureth forever; ²⁰ And Og the king of Basan; for his mercy endureth forever: ²¹ and gave their land for an inheritance; for his mercy endureth forever: ²² an inheritance for Israel his servant; for his mercy endureth forever:

³³ So Moses gave them, namely, to the Gadites and the Reubenites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and the cities, with the boundaries thereof, even the cities of the land round about.

¹² And we took possession of this land, at that time, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the brook Arnon, and the half of mount Galaad; and I gave all the cities thereof to Reuben, and Gad. ¹³ And the rest of Galaad, and all Basan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half of the tribe of Manasses, with all the region of Argob, even all that part of Basan which is to be accounted the land of the Raphains.

⁶ Therefore keep them, and practise them. For this will be your wisdom, and your understanding, in the sight of all the nations. Whoever shall chance to hear all these rules of rectitude, will say, Behold this is a wise and understanding people a great nation.

¹ These were the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to state to the children of Israel, in the land of Moab, over and above the covenant which he had made with them at Choreb.

⁷ Therefore be strong, and courageous, to watch, and to do as my servant Moses commanded. Thou must not deviate from them, to the right or to the left. That thou mayst clearly understand all that thou art to do:

³ and keep the watch of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which are written in the law of Moses; that thou mayest know what thou art to do, according to all that I command thee;

¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; to them who seek his covenant and his testimonies.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from age to age over them who fear him: and his saving goodness over children's children, ¹⁸ for them who keep his covenant, and remember his commands to do them.

¹ Thus saith the Lord, Keep judgment and practise righteousness; for my salvation is near, just ready to come, and my saving kindness to be revealed. ² Happy the man who doth these things and the mortal who adhereth to them; and who is careful not to profane my sabbaths, and who restraineth his hands from doing evil.

⁴ For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, whoever of them shall keep my sabbaths, and chuse the things in which I delight and adhere to my covenant; ⁵ I will give them, in my house and within my walls, an honourable place better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not fail. ⁶ And with regard to the strangers who cleave to the Lord to serve him, and love the name of the Lord; to be his man servants and maid servants, even all who are careful not to profane my sabbaths and who adhere to my covenant; ⁷ them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings, and their sacrifices shall be acceptable on mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations.

⁵ They will ask the way to Zion; for thitherward they will set their face; and they will come and flee to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.

²⁸ Whereupon he said, Nay, rather happy they who hear the word of God and keep it.

²⁰ Now may the God of this peace, who raised from the dead the shepherd of the flock, who is great by the blood of an everlasting covenant, namely, our Lord Jesus, ²¹ perfect you in every good work, that you may do his will, working in you what is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ: to whom be the glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹² Let the people be assembled, the men, and the women, and the children, and the proselyte who is in your cities, that they may hear, and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God; and let them hearken to do all the words of this law. ¹³ And let their children who have not known, hearken, and learn to fear the Lord thy God, all the days they live in the land to which you are going, to cross the Jordan, there to take possession of it.

¹⁶ Then Jodae made a covenant between the Lord, and the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.

²⁹ the king sent and assembled the elders of Juda and Jerusalem; ³⁰ and went up to the house of the Lord, with all the chiefs of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and with the priests and the Levites, and all the people small and great, and read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant found in the house of the Lord. ³¹ Then the king stood on the pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord to walk before the Lord and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with his whole heart, and his whole soul, so as to perform all the terms of the covenant, written in that book; ³² and he caused all who were in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And when the inhabitants of Jerusalem, had made a covenant in the house of the Lord God of their fathers,

² So Esdras the priest, brought out the law before the congregation, consisting of men and women, even all who had understanding, to hear it, on the first day of the seventh month,

¹ And on the twenty fourth day of the same month, the children of Israel were assembled, fasting, and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads, ² and having separated themselves from every stranger, they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

³⁸ In a due sense, therefore, of all these things we pledge our faith, we by writing, and our chiefs, our Levites, and our priests by sealing;

²⁸ and the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the keepers of the gates, the musicians, the Nathinims, and every one who came from among the people of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding,

¹⁶ Assemble the people; sanctify the congregation; choose elders. Bring together infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber and the bride from her wardrobe. ¹⁷ At the foot of the altar, let the priests who minister to the Lord, weep, and say, Spare, Lord, thy people; and give not up thy heritage to reproach; for the nations to rule over them. That they may not say among the nations, "Where is their God?"

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth and the nobles and the rich and the chief commanders and the under officers and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. And books were opened; and another book was opened namely that of Life. And the dead were judged by the writings in those books according to their works.

³⁸ And there went up with them a mixed multitude with flocks and herds and cattle in great abundance.

⁴⁸ And if any proselyte come to you to keep the passover to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise all his males and then he may come and keep it, and he shall be as a native of the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat of it. ⁴⁹ There shall be one law for the home born and for the proselyte who shall come among you.

⁴ Again the mixed multitude which was among them had a longing desire, and even the children of Israel sat down and wept, saying, Who will give us flesh to eat.

¹⁴ but on the seventh day are the sabbaths for the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not do any work; neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the proselyte who sojourneth with thee; that thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and thy labouring beast may rest as well as thou.

²¹ They shall live; but they shall be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the chiefs have said to them. ²² For Joshua had called them, and said to them, Why did you impose upon me saying, We are far distant from thee, seeing you are our nearest neighbour? ²³ Now therefore you are cursed, and not one of you shall escape servitude; from being a hewer of wood, and a drawer of water, for me and my God. ²⁴ And they answered Joshua saying, We were told all that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses, to give yon this land, and to extirpate us, and all the inhabitants thereof from before you, therefore we were in great terror for our lives because of you, and we did this. ²⁵ And now behold we are in your power, deal with us as you please, and as it seemeth good to you. ²⁶ So they dealt with them in this manner, and Joshua saved them that day out of the hand of the Israelites, and they did not destroy them. ²⁷ And on that day Joshua made them hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the whole congregation, and for the altar of God. For this cause the inhabitants of Gabaon are hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the altar of God, even at this day, and are to be so for the place which the Lord will chuse.

²⁸ There is in him no distinction of Jew and Greek, no distinction of bondman and freeman, no distinction of male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹¹ where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, scythian, bondman, freeman, but the all, and in all, Christ;

⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine: ⁶ but as for you, you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel.

¹⁴ Now I make this covenant, and this oath, not with you only,

²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and gave it to them as a law, and a solemn decision at Selo, before the tabernacle of the Lord God of Israel.

¹⁷ Then Jodae made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people. And he made a covenant also between the king and the people.

¹² and entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul; ¹³ and that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether young or old, whether man or woman. ¹⁴ And when they had sworn to the Lord with a loud voice, the trumpets and the cornets sounded, ¹⁵ and all Juda rejoiced at the oath; for they sword with their whole heart, and sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them. And the Lord gave them rest round about.

²⁸ and the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the keepers of the gates, the musicians, the Nathinims, and every one who came from among the people of the land to the law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, every one who had knowledge and understanding, ²⁹ were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath;] that we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and his judgments and his statutes;

⁷ And I will establish this my covenant with thee and thy seed after thee, throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee.

³ Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land. And I will establish my oath which I sware to thy father Abraham ⁴ and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

¹³ And the Lord leaned over it and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaak. Fear not. To thee and to thy seed I will give the land in which thou art sleeping. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and shall spread abroad to the west and the south, and the north and the east. And by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed, namely by the seed of thee. ¹⁵ And lo! I am with thee watching; over thee in all the way thou goest and I will bring thee back to this land: for I will not leave thee until I have done all that I have spoken to thee.

⁷ and take you to myself for my own people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I the Lord am your God, who brought you out from the tyranny of the Egyptians.

⁶ For thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a peculiar people to himself, in preference to all the nations which are on the face of the earth.

¹⁸ And the Lord hath this day chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, as he hath said, that thou mayst keep his commandments, ¹⁹ and be, as he hath made thee, renowned above all the nations, and a boast, and glorious, and that thou mayst be a people dedicated to the Lord, as he hath spoken.

⁹ The Lord establish thee a holy people for himself, as he solemnly promised thy fathers. If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and walk in all his ways,

³¹ Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Juda. ³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not abide by this covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them. ³³ For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

³⁸ And they shall be my people and I will be their God.

¹⁶ but now they desire a better; that is a heavenly country; therefore God is not ashamed of them; to be invoked as their God: for he prepared a city for them.

³¹ Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Juda. ³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not abide by this covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them. ³³ For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people. ³⁴ And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all will know me from the greatest to the least of them: for I will be merciful to their iniquities and no more remember their sins.

⁷ For if the first covenant had been faultless there would have been no occasion for a second ⁸ for finding fault with them he saith, "Behold days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah. ⁹ not such a covenant as I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt; because they did not abide by that covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, After these days, saith the Lord, adapting my laws to their understanding I will write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ¹¹ And they shall no more teach, every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know me from the least to the greatest of them; ¹² for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and no more remember their sins and their transgressions."

³ It was not only with your fathers that the Lord made this covenant, but with you also; with you who are all here alive this day.

³⁹ And I will give them another way and another heart that I may be always feared and may be for good to them and their children after them.

³⁹ For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all them afar off, whomsoever the Lord our God may invite."

¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is hallowed by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is hallowed by the husband; else your children would be unclean; whereas they are now holy.

⁴ and give thou a charge to this people, saying, You are about to march along by the borders of your brethren, the children of Esau who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, and dread you exceedingly.

⁹ the Lord said to me, Act not as enemies against the Moabites; nor come to a battle with them; for I will not give you for a possession any of their land; for I have given Aroer to the children of Lot, that they may inherit it.

¹⁹ when you come near to the children of Amman you must not act hostilely against them, nor come to battle with them; for I will not give thee any of the land of the children of Amman for a possession; because I have given it for a possession to the children of Lot.

²⁴ Now therefore arise, strike your tents, and cross the vale of Arnon; behold I have delivered into thy hand Seon, king of Esebon, the Amorite, with his land. Begin to take possession. Join battle with him this day.

¹ we turned and went up the way to Basan. And when Og, king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrain, ² the Lord said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon.

³⁶ The Lord carry away thee, and thy rulers, whom thou mayst set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers knew, that thou mayst there serve other gods; stocks and stones;

¹⁶ take heed to thyself that thy heart be not elated; and that you do not transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them, ¹⁷ lest the Lord, being provoked to wrath against you, shut up heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the land yield not its products, and ye quickly perish from that good land, which the Lord hath given you.

¹ If a prophet should start up among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and give thee a sign or a wonder; ² and the sign or the wonder should come to pass, which he mentioned to thee saying, Let us go and worship other gods which you do not know; ³ you shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or of that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord thy God trieth you, to know whether you love your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul. ⁴ You shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and hearken to his voice, and cleave to him. ⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken to lead thee astray from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage; to put thee out of the way in which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk. So thou shalt remove evil from among you. ⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. ⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people. ¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you. ¹² And if thou shalt hear it said, that in one of the cities, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to dwell in, ¹³ there are wicked men gone forth among you, who have seduced all the inhabitants of their land, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you know not; ¹⁴ thou shalt examine, and make inquiry, and search diligently: And behold, if the report is evidently true, and such abomination hath been committed among you; ¹⁵ thou shalt surely destroy all the inhabitants of that land, with the slaughter of the sword. With an Anathema thou shalt devote to destruction, it and all that are in it.

² If there be found in any of thy cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a man, or a woman, who shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to transgress his covenant, ³ and they have gone, and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the whole host of heaven, which he hath not commanded thee, ⁴ and information be given thee, and thou hast made strict inquiry, and behold the thing hath been actually done, and such an abomination hath been committed in Israel, ⁵ thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die. ⁶ On the testimony of two or three witnesses the guilty person shall be put to death; but shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness. ⁷ And the hand of the witness shall be upon him, among the first, to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of the people. So thou shalt remove the wickedness from among you.

¹⁵ therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, behold I will feed them with Wormwood, and give them the water of gall to drink.

⁴ But as for this king, what can he do for us? Speaking words, false pretences, will he make a covenant? Will judgment spring up like a weed in an uncultivated field?

¹² Can horses pursue among rocks? Will they refrain from whinnying at females? Because you have turned judgment into fury, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

²³ For I perceive that thou art for bitter gall and for a bond of iniquity.

¹² Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

¹⁵ watching diligently that none fall short of the favour of God"that no root of bitterness spring up and occasion trouble, and many be defiled by it

¹⁷ but from this tree, that you may know good and evil, you must not eat of it. On the day you eat of it, by death you shall die."

³⁰ But if any person, whether a native or a proselyte, shall presumptuously transgress, he provoketh God; that person shall be cut off from among his people.

³⁹ and have it on the tufts, that when you see them you may remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them, and not turn aside after your imaginations, and your own eyes, by following of which you have gone a whoring;

² If there be found in any of thy cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a man, or a woman, who shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to transgress his covenant,

⁴ The sinner hath greatly provoked the Lord; according to his great anger will he not make inquisition? God is not before his eyes; ⁵ his ways are polluted on every occasion. Thy judgments are removed from his sight; shall he have a mastery over all his enemies? ⁶ For he said in his heart, I shall not he moved and I shall never be in adversity.

¹¹ For he said in his heart God hath forgotten; He hath turned his face from ever seeing.

¹⁸ Because during this life his soul shall be blessed; let him praise thee when thou doest him a benefit.

⁶ They have slain the widow and orphan: they have murdered the stranger, ⁷ and said, The Lord cannot see, nor can the God of Jacob discern.

¹ Better is a man of experience, than a man who is stiff-necked: for when the latter is suddenly burned, there is no healing him.

⁹ rejoice then, young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart spotless and not by the sight of thine eyes, and know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment.

¹⁷ In those days and at that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it. And they shall no more follow the desires of their own wicked heart.

¹² "These things are not so. Evils will not come upon us; we shall see neither sword nor famine. ¹³ Our prophets are but wind and the word of the Lord was not in them."

³ thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: amend your ways and your pursuits: and I will cause you to dwell in this place. ⁴ Trust not in yourselves; in lying words: for you will derive no benefit from them who say, "The temple of the Lord! it is the temple of the Lord!" ⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your pursuits, and actually execute judgment between man and man: ⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt: ⁷ then will I cause you to dwell in this place; [in the land which I gave to your fathers] from age to age. ⁸ But if you continue to trust in lying words from which you can derive no benefit; ⁹ and commit murder, and adultery and steal and swear to a falsehood, and burn incense to Baal; and when you have gone after strange gods which you did not know; ¹⁰ you, because of your calamities, have then come and stood before me, in the house which is called by my name, and said, "We have been restrained from committing these abominations;" ¹¹ is not this house of mine, which is called by my name, become in your eyes a den of robbers? Now behold I have seen this, saith the Lord.

²⁴ But they hearkened not to me nor inclined their ear; but walked in the devices of their own wicked heart, and went backward and not forward

¹⁵ Then Jeremias said to Ananias, the Lord hath not sent thee; and thou hast made this people trust in a lie. ¹⁶ For this cause thus saith the Lord, "Behold I send thee from the face of the earth. This very year thou shalt die." So he died in the seventh month.

¹⁶ In regard to this word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, ¹⁷ we will not hearken to thee; for we will continue to perform every word which shall proceed from our mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her; as we and our fathers and our kings and our chiefs did in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem; for we had then plenty of bread and were in happy circumstances and saw no evils:

²⁷ Because I have watched over them, to afflict them, and not to do them good, therefore all the Jews who are dwelling in the land of Egypt, shall perish by sword and by famine, until there be an end of them.

¹⁶ namely, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and who see peace for her when there is no peace, saith the Lord.

²² Because you turned aside the heart of the righteous, whom I turned not aside, in order that you might strengthen the hands of a transgressor that he should by no means turn from his evil way and live;

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened;

⁵ demolishing surmises and every mount raised against the knowledge of God, and bringing every sentiment captive to the obedience of the Christ;

¹⁷ This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that you no more walk, as the rest of the nations do, in the vanity of their mind.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain discourses; for on the account of these things the wrath of God is coining on these children of disobedience,

⁵ thou shalt not worship them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation;

³² Now therefore, if thou indeed forgivest this their sin, forgive it: but if not: blot me out of thy book which thou hast written. ³³ And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever have sinned before me, them will I blot out of my book.

¹⁴ For you must not worship other gods; for the Lord God, a zealous name, is a zealous God.

¹⁴ now therefore let me utterly destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make thee a nation, great and powerful, and much more numerous than this.

¹⁹ Therefore when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies around thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Thou must not forget.

¹⁵ Cursed the man who shall make a graven, or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of artists; though he set it up in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen. ¹⁶ Cursed he who slighteth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁷ Cursed he who removeth his neighbour's land mark. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁸ Cursed he who leadeth the blind out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen. ¹⁹ Cursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁰ Cursed he who lieth with his father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²¹ Cursed he who lieth with any beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²² Cursed he who lieth with his sister, by the same father, or mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²³ Cursed he who lieth with his daughter in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed he who lieth with the sister of his wife. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁴ Cursed he who smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁵ Cursed he who taketh bribes to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. ²⁶ Cursed be every man who will not persevere in all the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁵ But in case thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to keep all his commandments which I this day give thee in charge, all these evils shall come upon thee and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed thou in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the offspring of thy body, and the products of thy land, thy herds and thy flocks. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed thou when thou goest out. ²⁰ The Lord send upon thee want, and famine, and destruction on all the labour of thy hands, until he utterly root thee out, and until he destroy thee quickly, on the account of thy wicked devices. Seeing thou hast forsaken me, ²¹ may the Lord make the pestilence cleave to thee, until it utterly consume thee from the land to which thou art going, to take possession of it. ²² The Lord smite thee with anxiety, and fever, and chilness, and restlessness, and blasting, and mildew, that they may pursue thee until they utterly destroy thee. ²³ And when the heaven over thy head shall be brass, and the earth under thy feet iron, ²⁴ may the Lord thy God make the rain of thy land dust, so that dust from heaven may descend until it waste thee, and until it destroy thee speedily. ²⁵ May the Lord deliver thee up to slaughter before thine enemies, so that thou mayst go out one way to meet them, and flee seven ways from before them; and be a dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth; ²⁶ and your dead carcasses be food for the birds of the air, and the wild beasts of the earth, and there be none to fray them away. ²⁷ The Lord smite thee with the Egyptian boil in thy seat, and with wild fire, and with itching, so that thou canst not be cured. ²⁸ The Lord smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart, ²⁹ so that thou mayst grope about at noon day, as a blind man gropeth in darkness; and let him not prosper thy ways, so thou shalt then be injured, and spoiled continually, and there will be none to help thee. ³⁰ Thou wilt take a wife, and another man shall have her. Thou wilt build a house, but shall not dwell therein. Thou wilt plant a vineyard, but shalt not gather the grapes thereof. ³¹ Thy ox will be slaughtered before thy face, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thy ass will be taken from thee, and shall not be restored; thy flocks will be given to thine enemies, and there shall be none to help thee; ³² thy sons, and thy daughters, will be given to another nation, and thine eyes will melt in looking at them; there will be no strength in thy hand. ³³ A nation, which thou knowest not will eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours; and thou shalt be injured, and oppressed continually ³⁴ , and driven to madness at the sight of thine eyes, which thou shalt see. ³⁵ The Lord smite thee with a grievous boil on thy knees, and on thy legs, so that thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy feet to the crown of thy head. ³⁶ The Lord carry away thee, and thy rulers, whom thou mayst set over thee, to a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers knew, that thou mayst there serve other gods; stocks and stones; ³⁷ and be there for a bye word, and a proverb, and a public example to all the nations to which the Lord shall bring thee. ³⁸ There thou shalt carry out much seed into the field, and shalt bring little home, for the locust shall devour it; ³⁹ thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it; but shalt not press out wine, nor regale thyself from it; for worms shall eat it up. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have plantations of olive trees, in all thy borders, but shalt not be anointed with oil, for thine olive tree shall cast its fruit: ⁴¹ thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but shalt not have them with thee; for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the products of thy land, shall be consumed with blasting. ⁴³ The stranger who is with thee shall rise higher and higher; but thou shalt fall lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee; and thou shalt not lend to him: He shall be head; and thou shalt be tail. ⁴⁵ All these curses shall actually come upon thee, and pursue thee, and overtake thee, until he root thee out, and utterly destroy thee because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his rules of rectitude, which he commanded thee, ⁴⁶ And they shall be signs for thee, and wonders for thine offspring forever. ⁴⁷ Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness, and with a good understanding, for the abundance of all things; ⁴⁸ therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies, whom the Lord will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things, and thou shalt wear a yoke of iron on thy neck, until it utterly destroy thee. ⁴⁹ The Lord will bring against thee a nation from afar; from the extremity of the earth, with the impetuosity of an eagle; A nation whose voice thou shalt not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation of an unblushing countenance, which will not respect the person of an elder, nor compassionate a youth. ⁵¹ And it shall devour the increase of thy cattle, and the products of thy land, so as not to leave thee corn, wine, oil, herds or flocks, until it hath destroyed thee, ⁵² and wasted thee in thy cities; until they have demolished thy high, and strong walls, in which thou hast placed thy confidence, throughout thy whole land. And when he shall afflict thee in thy cities which he hath given thee; ⁵³ in thy siege, and in the affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee, thou shalt eat the offspring of thy body; the flesh of thy sons, and thy daughters, whom he gave thee. ⁵⁴ The tender, and very delicate man who is with thee, will look with an evil eye on his brother, and on the wife in his bosom, and the remaining children which may be left him, ⁵⁵ so as not to give one of them any of the flesh of his sons, which he may be eating, because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemies will afflict thee, in all thy cities. ⁵⁶ And the tender, and very delicate woman among you, whose foot never ventured to tread the ground because of her delicateness, and effeminacy will look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and on her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷ even the female infant she bore, or the male child which she may have brought forth; for on the account of the want of all things, she will eat these secretly in thy siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemy will afflict thee in thy cities. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law, which are written in this book, to fear this glorious, this wonderful name, The Lord Thy God, ⁵⁹ the Lord will make thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, wonderful beyond conception; he will make them great, and marvellous, and thy diseases sore, and lasting, ⁶⁰ and will bring upon thee all the affliction of Egypt; that grievous affliction which thou didst dread on their account, and they shall cleave to thee. ⁶¹ The Lord will also bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague, which is not written, and every one which is written in this book of the law, until he root thee out. ⁶² And you shall be left few in number, instead of being, as you were, like the stars of heaven for multitude. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, ⁶³ therefore it shall come to pass, that as the Lord delighted in you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you, in rooting you out; and you shall be removed speedily from the land to which thou art going to take possession of it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known. ⁶⁵ But even among these nations he will not give thee rest, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. Indeed the Lord will give thee there a strange trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a desponding soul, ⁶⁶ and thy life shall hang in suspence before thine eyes, and thou shalt be in terror, day and night, and have no assurance of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say; How will it be with me in the evening! And in the evening thou wilt say, How may it be with me in the morning! on account of the terror of thy heart with which thou shalt be affrighted, and on account of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will send thee back into Egypt, in ships, [by the way which I ordered thou shalt see it no more:] and thou shalt there be exposed to sale to your enemies, for bond men and bond women, and there will be no purchaser.

⁸ A smoke ascended in his ire, and at his presence a fire flamed, by which coals were kindled to a glow.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be enrolled with the righteous.

¹ Of understanding. By Asaph. O GOD, why hast thou utterly cast off? Why is thy wrath extreme against the sheep of thy pasture?

⁵⁰ he paved a way for his vengeance; he spared not their lives from death: he delivered up their cattle to pestilence,

⁵⁸ They provoked him with their mounts, and with their graven images moved him to jealousy.

⁵ How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever?

³⁴ For the rage of her husband being full of jealousy, will not spare in the day of vengeance;

⁶ set me as a seal on thy heart as a seal on thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy inflexible as Hades: its wings are wings of fire its flames;

¹¹ And after a time there will be no verdure in it, by reason of its being parched up. [p] ye women who are coming from a goddess attend! For this is not a people, who have understanding; therefore he[c] the city. [v] the vineyard. who made them will not have pity on them; nor will he who formed them shew them any favour.

¹⁴ And I will scatter them, their heads of families and their brethren, both fathers and their sons at the same time. I will not have compassion, saith the Lord, nor will I spare, nor pity them for their destruction.

¹¹ For this cause, as I live saith the Lord, Because thou hast polluted my holy things with all thine abominations; therefore I will cast thee off; mine eye shall not spare nor will I have compassion.

⁴ [7] The day hath approached, not with commotions nor with pangs.

⁹ [5]For thus saith the Lord, Lo! the end is coming.

³ And he stretched forth the similitude of a hand and took hold of me by the crown of the head and a blast of wind lifted me up between heaven and earth, and in a vision of God, brought me to Jerusalem, to the vestibule of the gate facing the north, where was the pillar of the possessor.

⁵ And he said to me, Son of man, look up with thine eyes towards the north. So I looked up with mine eyes towards the north, and behold from the north to the gate facing the east.

¹⁸ therefore I will deal with them with wrath. Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have compassion.

¹⁰ therefore mine eye shall not spare nor will I have compassion. I have requited their ways upon their heads.

⁷ For be the man who he may of the house of Israel, or of the proselytes who have sojourned with Israel, who shall separate himself from me, and give his desires the rule over his understanding when he hath set before his eyes the punishment of his iniquity and shall come to the prophet that he may inquire of me; I the Lord will answer him by that with which he is entangled; ⁸ and I will set my face against that man, and give him up to desolation and destruction; and remove him from among my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

²⁵ And I will give a loose to my jealousy; and they shall deal with thee with furious wrath, they shall cut off thy nose and thine ears; and the remains of thee they shall hack with a sword. They shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and a fire shall devour the residue of thee.

¹⁴ I the Lord have spoken. He shall come: and I will act. I will not defer; nor will I shew compassion. According to thy ways and according to thy lusts I will judge thee, saith the Lord, therefore I will judge thee according to thy blood guiltiness; and I will judge thee according to thine inordinate lusts, corrupt, infamous and very provoking city.

⁵ Therefore thus saith the Lord, Lord, In the fire of my wrath I have spoken against these remnants of nations and against all Idumea: Because they have with joy distributed this land of mine among themselves for a possession, undervaluing lives that you might be a waste for prey;

² God is zealous. The Lord is about to take vengeance: the Lord is about to take vengeance with wrath: the Lord is about to take vengeance on his adversaries, and to destroy utterly his enemies, himself.

¹⁸ . And their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of the indignation of the Lord. By the fire of his zeal the whole land shall be consumed, for he will bring speedy destruction on all the inhabitants of this land.

³² He who spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely grant us all things?

²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he may not spare thee.

²² Are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

⁴ For if God spared not angels who sinned, but confining them in Tartarus, chains of darkness, delivered them up to be kept for judgment ⁵ and if he spared not the old world, but preserved eight persons, including Noah, the proclaimer of righteousness, when he brought a deluge on the world of ungodly men

⁵ He who overcometh shall be clothed with white raiment, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his angels.

¹ But the children of Israel committed a great trespass. They set apart for themselves some of the Anathema. Achar son of Charmi, son of Zambri, son of Zara, of the tribe of Juda, had taken some of what was devoted, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel; ² so that when Joshua sent men to Gai, which is over against Baithel, saying, Take a view of Gai; and the men had gone up, and viewed Gai, ³ and returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not the whole people go up, but let only about two or three thousand go up, and storm the city; thou needest not lead the whole people thither, for they are few in number; ⁴ and about three thousand men had gone up, they fled before the men of Gai; ⁵ and the men of Gai slew of them about thirty six men, and pursued them from the gate, and drove them from the steep. Whereupon the heart of the people was dismayed, and became like water; ⁶ and Joshua rent his clothes. Now when Joshua had prostrated himself, with his face on the ground, before the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they had put dust on their heads, ⁷ Joshua said, Alas, Lord! Why hath thy servant caused this people to cross the Jordan, to deliver them up to the Amorite to destroy us? Should we have tarried, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan? ⁸ What can I say, seeing Israel hath turned back from before his enemy? ⁹ When the Chananite, and all the inhabitants of this land hear this, they will encompass us, and drive us from this land. What then wilt thou do in respect to thy great name? ¹⁰ Thereupon the Lord said to Joshua, Arise; why hast thou fallen on thy face? ¹¹ This people hath sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made with them. They have stolen some of what was devoted, and put it among their stuff; ¹² therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before the face of their enemies. They shall turn back before their enemies, because they are become devoted. I will no more be with you, unless you remove the Anathema from among you. ¹³ Arise, hallow the people, and order them to hallow themselves, against to-morrow. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, The Anathema is among you. You cannot stand before your enemies, until you remove the Anathema from among you. ¹⁴ You shall therefore all assemble to-morrow, by tribes; and whatever tribe the Lord shall point out, you shall present it by communities; and whatever community the Lord shall point out, you shall present it by houses; and whatever house the Lord shall point out, you shall present it man by man; ¹⁵ and whoever is pointed out, he shall be burned with fire and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and committed iniquity in Israel. ¹⁶ Accordingly Joshua arose early in the morning, and brought forward the people by tribes, and the tribe of Juda was pointed out. ¹⁷ And when it was presented by communities, the community of the Zaraites was pointed out; ¹⁸ and when it was presented man by man, Achar son of Zambri, son of Zara, was pointed out. ¹⁹ Whereupon Joshua said to Achar, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession, and tell me what thou hast done, and conceal it not from me. ²⁰ And Achar answered Joshua, and said, I have indeed sinned before the Lord, the God of Israel. Thus and thus have I done. ²¹ I saw, among the spoil, a piece of tissue, and two hundred didrachms of silver, and an ingot of gold, of about fifty didrachms, and I coveted them, and took them, and behold they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them. ²² Then Joshua sent messengers, who ran to the tent, in the camp, and the things were hid in his tent, and the silver under them. ²³ So they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua, and the elders of Israel who laid them before the Lord. ²⁴ Then Joshua took Achar, son of Zara, and led him up to the valley of Achor, with his sons, and his daughters, and his cattle, and his asses, and all his flocks, and his tent, and all his goods, and all the people accompanied him. And when he had led them up to Emek-Achor, ²⁵ Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us? The Lord destroy thee, as at this day! Then all Israel stoned him with stones. ²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

⁹ And I will stretch forth my hand against these prophets, who see falsehoods and prophesy vanities: they shall not be in the school of my people nor enrolled in the enrollment of the house of Israel; nor shall they enter into the land of Israel and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁸ And when you shall be converted, you shall see the difference between a righteous man and one who is unrighteous; and between him who serveth God and him who serveth not.

⁵¹ and will scourge him in the severest manner and assign him his portion with the hypocrites. Weeping and gnashing of teeth will be there.

³² And before him shall be assembled all the nations. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats.

⁴¹ Then he will say to them on his left, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the fire which is everlasting; that prepared for the devil and his angels!

⁴⁶ So these shall go to everlasting punishment and the righteous to an everlasting life.

⁸ and make this city a desolation and an object of pity. Every one who passeth by it shall be sad and express the sound of pity for the stroke which it hath received.

² made war on Balla king of Sodom, and on Barsa king of Gomorra, and on Sennaar king of Adama, and Sumobor king of Seboeim, and the king of Balak which is Segor.

²⁴ and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew these cities, and all the circumjacent country, and all the inhabitants of those cities, and all the productions of the ground.

⁴⁵ And Abimelech fought against the city the whole day, and having taken the city, he slew the people in it, and demolished the city, and sowed it with salt.

¹⁵ It will make its abode in his tent; in his night all his finery will be strewed with sulphur.

³⁴ a fruitful country into barrenness: for the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

⁹ and its torrents shall be turned into pitch, and its land into sulphur. And its land shall be like pitch burning day and night,

⁶ He shall be like the wild myrtle in the desert. He shall not see when good cometh; but shall dwell in parched places and in a desert-in a salt land which is uninhabited.

¹⁶ Let that man be like the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath and relented not, Let him hear a scream in the morning and the cry of Woe at noon-day,

¹¹ But when it is forced from its channel and when it is turned from its course, and when it is caused to swell immoderately, the waters will not heal. They are turned into salt.

⁸ [J] What shall I do with thee, Ephraim? Shall I shield thee, Israel? What must I do with thee? Shall I make thee as Adama and as Seboim? My heart relenteth for him. My compassion is moved. ⁹ I will not act according to the fierceness of mine indignation, I will not give up Ephraim to utter destruction. For I am God and am not man; The Holy One in the midst of thee. [p] Am I then not to enter a city?

¹¹ I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became like a brand plucked out of fire. Now as even for this you have not turned to me, saith the Lord,

⁹ therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorra; and Damascus shall be left like the heap of a winnowing floor, and shall be desolate forever, that the remnant of my people may spoil them: and the remains of my nation shall inherit them.

³⁴ Salt is good; but if the salt become insipid, with what can it be recovered? ³⁵ It is neither fit for the land, nor the dunghill. It is thrown away. Whoever hath ears to hear, let him hear.

²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

²⁰ And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who did these signs before him by which he led astray them who had received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. Both these were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone;

⁸ and this stately house shall be reduced to such a condition that every one who passeth by it will be astonished and will, with expressions of pity, say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land and with this house? ⁹ To which answer will be made, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of Egypt; out of the house of bondage; and in his stead chose strange gods, and worshipped and served them, therefore the Lord hath brought upon them this calamity. Then Solomon brought Pharao's daughter up out of the city of David to the house which he had built for himself.

²¹ Yes, at this house which is so lofty, every one who passeth by it shall be astonished, and say, Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this land and this house? ²² To which it will be answered, Because they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods in his stead, and worshipped them and served them, therefore he brought upon them all this calamity.

⁸ And when nations shall pass by this city, they will say, every one to his neighbour, "Why hath the Lord dealt thus with this great city?" ⁹ To which it will be said in reply, "Because they forsook the Lord their God and worshipped strange gods and served them."

¹⁵ All that passed by clapped their hands for thee, they expressed the sound of pity and shaked their heads for the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this, say they, the city, the crown of joy of the whole earth! ¹⁶ Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; we have seen it. ¹⁷ The Lord hath done what he purposed. He hath executed his decree, what he enjoined in days of old. He hath destroyed and hath not spared. He hath caused an enemy to rejoice over thee. He hath exalted the horn of thine oppressor.

¹² The kings of the earth; all the inhabitants of the world did not believe that an enemy and a destroyer could have entered the gates of Jerusalem.

²³ And they will comfort you, for you will see their ways and their desires; and you will know that I have not without cause done all those things which I have done to it, saith the Lord.

⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

¹⁰ To which he replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel hath forsaken thee. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I alone am left and they seek my life to take it. ¹¹ And it said, Thou shalt go out to-morrow and stand before the Lord on the mount. Behold the Lord will pass by. Accordingly behold there was a mighty strong blast of wind rending mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, there was an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. ¹² And after the earthquake, a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, there was a sound of a gentle breeze ¹³ which when Elias heard, he covered his face with his mantle and went out and stood beneath the cave. And behold there came a voice to him and said, Why art thou come hither, Elias? ¹⁴ To which Elias replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it.

¹ Behold the Lord is about to destroy this inhabited land! He will lay it waste and uncover the face thereof and scatter abroad them who dwell therein. ² And it shall be as with the people so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the debtor, so with the creditor. ³ With destruction the land will be destroyed, and with spoiling this land will be ransacked: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this. ⁴ The land mourned and this empire is destroyed; the lofty people of the land mourned. ⁵ As for the land, it transgressed by means of its inhabitants. Because they transgressed the law, and changed the institutions; the everlasting covenant, ⁶ therefore a curse devoureth the land. Because they who dwell therein have sinned, therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be distressed, and few are the men who shall be left.

⁶ I was angry with my people: thou didst pollute my heritage, I delivered them into thy hand: and thou didst shew them no mercy. The yoke of the aged thou madest very heavy,

⁹ To which it will be said in reply, "Because they forsook the Lord their God and worshipped strange gods and served them."

² he took him and said to him, The Lord thy God hath denounced all these evils against this place, ³ and the Lord hath done them, because you sinned against him and did not hearken to his voice.

⁷ All that found them devoured them. Their enemies said, "Let us not spare them because they sinned against the Lord." He who gathered their fathers hath a pasture of righteousness:

⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known.

¹² They forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, after some of the gods of the nations around, and worshipped them, and provoked the Lord to wrath. ¹³ So when they forsook him, and served Baal, and the Astartees,

⁸ They had chosen new gods; Then was war made upon the cities of chiefs, if a buckler was seen, or a spear among forty thousand in Israel.

⁷ Now this came to pass, because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt; and had feared other gods, ⁸ and walked in the ordinances of the nations which the Lord had removed from before the Israelites. ⁹ Indeed with regard to the acts which the kings of Israel did and which the Israelites adopted; were they not in direct opposition to the Lord their God? ¹⁰ They built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watch tower to the fortified city; and erected for themselves pillars and bowers on every high hill, and under every shady tree; ¹¹ and there burned incense in all the high places, as the nations did which the Lord had removed from before them. Nay, they unhallowed and marked themselves to provoke the Lord to wrath; ¹² and served the idols, concerning which the Lord said to them, You shall not do such a thing for the Lord. ¹³ And though the Lord testified to Israel and to Juda by the ministry of all his prophets; of every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes and all my law which I enjoined on your fathers, and which I sent them by the ministry of my servants the prophets; ¹⁴ yet they hearkened not; but hardened their neck more than their fathers had done; ¹⁵ His testimonies which he gave them in charge, they did not keep; but walked after vanities and became vain, and followed the nations around them in the very things which the Lord commanded them not to do. ¹⁶ They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves a molten image; even two calves. And having made bowers, they worshipped the whole host of heaven, and served Baal. ¹⁷ They made their sons and their daughters to pass through fire, and used divination and practised augury. Indeed they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to wrath. ¹⁸ And though the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his presence, and there was none left but only the tribe of Juda,

¹² and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and was not brought to a sense of shame by Jeremias, the prophet, speaking from the mouth of the Lord, ¹³ when he violated his engagements with Nabuchodonosar, to the performance of which he had caused him to swear by God; but hardened his neck, and strengthened his heart, not to return to the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁴ Now all the nobles of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land abounded in the commission of the wicked abominations of the Gentiles, and had polluted the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers had sent to them by the ministry of his prophets, rising early, and sending his messengers, because he compassionated his people and his sanctuary. ¹⁶ But they continued to deride his messengers, and to despise his words, and insult his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord ascended against his people; until there was no remedy. ¹⁷ Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and had no compassion on Sedekias, nor pity for their virgins. And they carried away their elders. He delivered all into their hands;

³ and thou shalt say to them, "Hear the word of the Lord, ye kings of Juda and ye men of Juda and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye who enter in at these gates. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold I am bringing evils upon this place, so that the ears of every one who heareth them shall tingle. ⁴ Because they have forsaken me and profaned this place; and have burned incense in it to strange gods, which neither they nor their fathers knew; and the kings of Juda have filled this place with the blood of innocents; ⁵ and have built high places to Baal to burn their sons with fire, things which I never commanded, and which never came into my mind; ⁶ therefore behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, When this place shall no more be called, "The end of hope," and "The grave yard of the sons of Ennom;" but "The grave yard of slaughter." ⁷ For I will slaughter the council of Juda and the council of Jerusalem in this place; And cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them who seek their lives. And I will give their carcasses to be meat for the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, ⁸ and make this city a desolation and an object of pity. Every one who passeth by it shall be sad and express the sound of pity for the stroke which it hath received. ⁹ They shall indeed eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat, every one, the flesh of his neighbour, in the blockade and siege with which their enemies shall besiege them." ¹⁰ Then thou shalt break the pitcher before the eyes of the men who went out with thee ¹¹ and say, Thus saith the Lord, So will I break this people and this city: as this earthen pitcher is broken and cannot be mended, ¹² so will I do, saith the Lord, to this place and to the inhabitants thereof, that this city may be dashed down like that hopeless vessel. ¹³ And the houses of the kings of Juda shall be like this hopeless place, because of their impurities in all the houses on the tops of which they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out libations to strange gods.

² Thus said the Lord the God of Israel, You have seen all the evils which I brought upon Jerusalem, and upon the cities of Juda; ³ and behold they are desolate, without inhabitants because of their wickedness which they committed to provoke me, by going to burn incense to strange gods, which you knew not. ⁴ Though I sent to you my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Do not commit this abominable thing which I hate; ⁵ yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness so as not to burn incense to strange gods. ⁶ Therefore my wrath and mine indignation was poured out and kindled to a flame in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.

¹⁴ Now if you will not hearken to me, nor perform these my commandments, ¹⁵ but disobey them, and your souls abhor my judgments, so as not to perform all my commandments, so as to break my covenant, ¹⁶ I will deal with you in this manner; I will send against you distress, and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it: ¹⁷ and I will set my face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing you. ¹⁸ And if for all this you will not hearken to me, I will proceed to chastise you seven fold for your offences, ¹⁹ and break the haughtiness of your pride.; I will make the heaven for you as iron, and your land as brass; ²⁰ and your strength shall be spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall the trees of the field yield you their fruit. ²¹ And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins; ²² I will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few in number, and your high ways shall be desolate. ²³ And if by these things you be not reformed, but walk adversely before me, ²⁴ I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you seven fold for your sins; ²⁵ I will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies. ²⁶ In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you shall eat, but shall not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if for these things you will not hearken to me, but walk adversely before me, ²⁸ I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins. ²⁹ And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters also you shall eat: ³⁰ and I will lay waste your pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. ³¹ And I will lay waste your cities, and make your sanctuaries a desolation, and no longer be regaled with the smell of your sacrifices. ³² I will also make your land a desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and a sword shall overtake and consume you. And your land shall be a waste, and your cities a desolation. ³⁴ And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths, ³⁵ which it did not keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein. ³⁶ And upon those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pursueth. ³⁷ And brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you. ³⁹ And those of you who are left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fathers; In the land of their enemies they shall pine away, ⁴⁰ and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me, ⁴¹ and I have walked with them in vengeful ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will they bear their sins with humble submission; ⁴² whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the covenant with Abraham, and remember the land. ⁴³ When the land shall be forsaken by them, and when the land shall have enjoyed its sabbaths by being made a waste on their account, and they have borne their iniquities because they neglected my judgments, and in their hearts abhorred my statutes, ⁴⁴ [as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God] ⁴⁵ then will I remember the covenant with them; that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage, to be their God. I am the Lord; ⁴⁶ These are my judgments, and these are my statutes, and this is the law which the Lord hath given between himself and the children of Israel, at mount Sina, by the ministration of Moses.

²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. ²¹ The Lord will indeed separate him, from all the children of Israel, according to all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book of the law.

¹¹ and all Israel transgressed thy law, and declined to hearken to thy voice; therefore upon us came the curse and the execration which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. Because we sinned against him, ¹² therefore he confirmed his words which he spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great evils, such as never happened under the whole heaven; as was the case in Jerusalem. ¹³ According to what is written in the law of Moses all those evils have come upon us. We indeed did not supplicate the favour of the Lord our God, by turning from all our wickedness, therefore that we might be made sensible of all thy truth, ¹⁴ the Lord hath indeed been watchful and hath brought upon us these things. For the Lord our God is righteous in every act of his which he hath done, and we have not hearkened to his voice.

²⁴ and the Lord commanded us to practise all these rules; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us always, that we may live, as we now do.

¹⁸ but remember the Lord thy God, that it is he who giveth thee power to procure wealth, that he may establish the covenant which the Lord made with thy fathers, as at this day.

²⁵ May the Lord deliver thee up to slaughter before thine enemies, so that thou mayst go out one way to meet them, and flee seven ways from before them; and be a dispersion among all the kingdoms of the earth;

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¹⁸ And though the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from his presence, and there was none left but only the tribe of Juda,

²³ until the Lord removed them from his presence, as he spoke by the ministry of all his servants the prophets. Now when Israel was removed from their own land to Assyria, where they continue to this day;

²⁰ I will assuredly remove you from this land which I have given them. And I will remove out of my sight this house which I have hallowed to my name, and make it a proverb and a bye word among all the nations.

⁷ From the days of our fathers we are in great transgression, even to this day. And for our inquities, we and our kings and our children, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the nations, to the sword and to captivity, and to spoiling, and to confusion of face, as at this day.

⁵ For this cause God will utterly destroy thee; tear thee up and hurl thee from thy dwelling; even thy rooted stock out of the land of the living.

²² the ways of the wicked shall be destroyed from the land; and the transgressors shall be driven out of it.

¹⁰ "If you will abide in this land I will build you up, and not pull you down; and I will plant you, and not root you up; for I am appeased by the evils which I have done to you.

⁷ To thee, Lord, belongeth righteousness; but to us confusion of face as at this day; to the man Juda and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel; and to those near and to them far off, in every land where thou hast scattered them for their breach of covenant of which they have been guilty.

²³ alas therefore for the women with child and for them who give suck in those days; for there will be great distress in this land and wrath on this people. ²⁴ They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captives to all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by nations until the times of nations shall be fulfilled.

⁷ and thou shalt impress them on thy children, and speak of them, when thou sittest at home, and when thou art walking abroad, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up;

² and shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and hearken to his voice, according to all that I this day command thee, with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul;

⁶ Indeed were he to unfold to thee the power of wisdom; because it must needs be double to what are with thee: then thou wouldst know that what have come upon thee from the Lord are answerable to the sins which thou hast committed. ⁷ Canst thou trace the footsteps of the Lord? Or hast thou reached the extent of what the Almighty hath done?

²⁸ he said to man, "Behold the worshipping of God is wisdom: and to abstain from evil is understanding."

¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them who fear him; and it is his covenant to display it for them.

² I will open my mouth with parables; I will utter dark sayings of old; ³ such as we have heard and known, which our fathers have related to us. ⁴ They were not hid from their children: one generation told another the praises of the Lord, his acts of power, and the wonders which he hath done. ⁵ Thus he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and established a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children: ⁶ that the succeeding generation; the children to be born, might know it, and rise and tell the same to their children: ⁷ that they might put their trust in God, and not forget the works of God, but seek diligently his commandments;

³² For every transgressor is impure in the sight of the Lord; and among the righteous he taketh not a seat.

²⁰ For he hath given a law for assistance; that they may not speak like such an oracle as this, which is not worth the giving of gifts for it.

¹⁸ For which of them hath stood in the council of the Lord and seen? who hath hearkened and heard his voice?"

¹⁸ and they had sought mercy of the God of heaven touching this secret, that Daniel and his friends might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon: ¹⁹ and the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night; whereupon he blessed the God of heaven, and said,

²² He it is who revealeth deep and hidden things. He knoweth the things which are in darkness. And with him is the light.

²⁷ And Daniel answered in the presence of the king and said, The secret which the king demandeth, it is not in the power of wise men, magians, soothsayers, gazarenes, to tell the king. ²⁸ There is none but God in heaven who revealeth secrets. He indeed hath made known to the king Nabuchodonosar what must come to pass in latter days. With regard to thy dream, and the visions of thy head, on thy bed, this is it. ²⁹ Thy thoughts, king, on thy bed ascended to what might come to pass hereafter. And he who revealeth secrets made known to thee the things which must come to pass. ³⁰ And to me this secret was revealed, not indeed for any wisdom in me above all the living: but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, that thou mayst know the thoughts of thy heart.

⁹ To him I said, Baltasar chief of the soothsayers, who, I know, hast a holy spirit of a god in thee, so that no secret can escape thee, hear the vision of the dream which I have seen; and tell me the meaning of it.

⁷ Seeing the Lord will not do any thing without giving warning to his servants;

²⁷ All things are delivered up to me by my father; and none but the father knoweth the son; nor doth any know the father, but only the son, and he to whom the son is pleased to reveal him. ²⁸ Come to me all ye who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

¹¹ And he in reply said to them, To you it hath been granted to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens; but to them it hath not been granted.

³⁵ so that there was a full accomplishment of that which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth with parables, I will utter things kept hid from the foundation of the world.

¹⁵ I no longer call you servants; because the servant doth not know what his master doth. But I have called you friends, because I have made known to you all that I heard from my Father.

³¹ But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, you may have life by his name.

²² Jesus saith to him, If I will that he stay till I come, what is that to thee?

⁷ Whereupon he said to them, It is not for you to know times and seasons which the Father hath reserved in his own disposal.

³³ O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways not to be traced out! ³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord"? Or who hath been his counsellor?

²⁵ Now to him who is able to establish you according to my glad tidings and the proclamation of Jesus Christ; according to the disclosure of a secret which was concealed in times of old, ²⁶ but which is now laid open, and by prophetic writings made known to all the nations, according to an order of the everlasting God, for the obedience of belief

¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Who can instruct him? As for us we have the mind of Christ.

⁵ recollecting that unfeigned belief in thee, which dwelt first in thy grand mother Lois and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in thee also:

¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for reformation, for instruction in righteousness,