Psalms 59 Cross References - Thomson

¹ For the conclusion. Destroy not. By David, for a monumental inscription, when Saul sent and watched his house in order to put him to death. Deliver me, God, from mine enemies: and redeem me from them who rise up against me. ² Deliver me from them who work iniquity; and save me from blood thirsty men. ³ For behold they have hunted my life: the mighty are set against me: though there is no transgression; no sin, Lord, in me. ⁴ Without transgression I ran and kept a straight course; awake to meet me and behold. ⁵ Do thou, Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel! attend to visit all the nations: shew no mercy to any workers of iniquity. ⁶ They are to return at evening; and suffer hunger like a dog, and go round the city. ⁷ Behold they are to speak oraculously with their mouth; and have a sword in their lips; For who heard? ⁸ But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn. Thou canst set at nought all the nations. ⁹ My strength is with thee: I will keep watch: for thou, God, art my supporter. ¹⁰ My God will cause his mercy to go before me: my God will display it to me among mine enemies. ¹¹ Slay them not. Perhaps they may have forgotten thy law. Scatter them with thy power; and bring them back, Lord, my defender. ¹² Let them be but arrested in their pride; the destructions attendant on their oath and falsehood, will shew the sin of their ¹³ mouth, the word of their lips. Under destructive wrath they cannot subsist. Let them know that the God of Jacob ruleth ¹⁴ over the ends of the earth. They are to return at evening and ¹⁵ suffer hunger like a dog and go round the city. Let them disperse, that they may eat; and if they are not satisfied, let them murmur. ¹⁶ But I will sing of thy power; and in the morning exult in thy mercy: because thou wast my supporter, and my refuge in the day of my affliction. Thou art my helper; ¹⁷ to thee, my God, I will sing; thou art my supporter, my God, my comfort.

¹² When thou tillest the ground, it will not henceforth yield thee its strength. Thou shalt be in a state of anguish and terror in this land." ¹³ And Cain said to the Lord God, "Is my fault too great to be forgiven? ¹⁴ If thou castest me out this day from the face of this land and I be hid from thy presence and be in a state of anguish and terror in the land, it will come to pass that whoever findeth me will kill me." ¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, "Not so. Whosoever killeth Cain shall suffer seven fold vengeance." And the Lord God gave a sign to Cain, that whoever found him would not kill him.

²⁰ and he erected there an Altar and invoked the God of Israel.

¹⁵ Again God said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of our fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob hath sent me to you. This is my everlasting name and memorial to all generations.

⁶ Thy right hand, Lord, is glorious in power. Thy right hand, Lord, dashed enemies to pieces.

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;

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 According to the number of days in which you explored the land, counting each of the forty days a year, you shall bear your sins forty years, and shall know the vengeance of my wrath. ³⁵ I the Lord have spoken. In this manner I will assuredly deal with this wicked congregation, which hath risen up against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die,

¹³ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he led them about in the wilderness forty years, until all that generation, who had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.

¹⁴ Now the time we spent from Kades-barne till we came to the valley of Zaret, was thirty eight years; until all the generation of the warriors had fallen, and died out of the camp. As the Lord had, with an oath denounced against them, ¹⁵ the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them from among the host until they had all fallen. ¹⁶ And when all the warriors had fallen, and died from among the people,

⁹ Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. Forget not all the things which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; that thou mayst impress upon thy children, and thy childrens' children,

²⁷ And the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, and you shall be left few in number, among all the nations, to which the Lord will bring you.

²² The Lord thy God will indeed consume those nations from before thee, by little and little. Thou wilt not be enabled to destroy them at once, lest the land become a waste, and the wild beasts multiply against thee. ²³ But the Lord thy God will deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great destruction, until you may utterly exterminate them.

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.

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,

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.

³ the Lord will heal thy sins, and have compassion on thee, and gather thee again out of all the nations among which the Lord hath dispersed thee. ⁴ Though thy dispersion may have been from one end of the earth to the other, thence the Lord thy God will gather thee,

⁶ And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. ⁷ Whereupon Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, have been under my table, gathering up the offals thereof; therefore as I have done, so hath God requited me: And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

² And when the Gazites were told that Sampson was come there, they surrounded him, and lay in wait for him the whole night, at the gate of the city. They indeed kept quiet all the night, saying, When the dawn appeareth we shall kill him. ³ But when Sampson had lain till midnight, he arose in the middle of the night, and took the doors of the city gate with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and went up to the top of the mountain which looked towards Chebron, and deposited them there.

³⁷ The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear; he will deliver me out of the hand of this uncircumcised Philistine. Then Saul said to David, Go; and the Lord be with thee.

⁴⁶ And the Lord will deliver thee this day into my hand, and I will kill thee, and cut off thy head, and give thy carcass, and the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day, to the birds of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel; ⁴⁷ and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saveth not with a sword or a spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and the Lord will deliver you into our hands.

¹ therefore Saul spoke to his son Jonathan, and all his servants, to kill David.

¹¹ Saul sent messengers that night to David's house, to watch him, with an intent to put him to death in the morning. But Melchol, David's wife, told him, and said, Unless thou save thy life this night, to-morrow thou wilt be put to death.

¹¹ Saul sent messengers that night to David's house, to watch him, with an intent to put him to death in the morning. But Melchol, David's wife, told him, and said, Unless thou save thy life this night, to-morrow thou wilt be put to death.

¹¹ Saul sent messengers that night to David's house, to watch him, with an intent to put him to death in the morning. But Melchol, David's wife, told him, and said, Unless thou save thy life this night, to-morrow thou wilt be put to death. ¹² Then Melchol let David out through a window, and he departed, and fled, and escaped.

¹² Then Melchol let David out through a window, and he departed, and fled, and escaped. ¹³ And Melchol took the cenotaphs, and laid them on the bed, and placed a goat skin pillow for his head, and covered them with a mantle. ¹⁴ So when Saul sent messengers to take David, they said he was sick. ¹⁵ Then Saul sent them for David, saying, Bring him to me on the bed, that I may put him to death.

¹⁵ Then Saul sent them for David, saying, Bring him to me on the bed, that I may put him to death. ¹⁶ And when the messengers came, behold! There were the cenotaphs on the bed, and a goat skin pillow for his head.

¹⁶ And when the messengers came, behold! There were the cenotaphs on the bed, and a goat skin pillow for his head. ¹⁷ Whereupon Saul said to Melchol, Why hast thou thus deceived me, and sent away my enemy, so that he hath escaped? And Melchol said to Saul, He said, Let me go, else I will put thee to death. ¹⁸ So David fled, and escaped, and went to Samuel, to Armathaim, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And Samuel went with David, and they made their abode at Navath in Rama. And ¹⁹ when it was told Saul, saying, Behold David is at Navath, in Rama, ²⁰ Saul sent messengers to take David. But when they saw the assembly of the prophets, with Samuel, standing at the head of them, a Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they prophesied. ²¹ When this was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And when Saul sent a third set of messengers, and they also prophesied, ²² he was exceedingly enraged, and went himself to Armathaim. And when he came to the well of Alo, which is at Sephi, he inquired, and said, Where are Samuel and David? And they ²³ said, Behold at Navath, in Rama. Thereupon he went thence to Navath, in Rama, and a Spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on prophesying till he came to Navath, in Rama. ²⁴ And having stripped off his upper garments, he prophesied before them, and lay uncovered that whole day, and the whole night. For this cause they said, Is Saul also among the prophets?

¹¹ Now behold here is the skirt of thy cloak in my hand. I cut off the skirt, but did not kill thee. Know, therefore, and see now that there is no wickedness in my hand; no impiety or disloyalty; nor have I sinned against thee, though thou huntest my life to take it.

¹⁷ Then Saul said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast returned me good; but I have returned thee evil.

¹⁰ Then David said, As the Lord liveth, either the Lord will smite him, or his time shall come, and he will go down to battle and fall.

¹⁸ Moreover he said, Why doth my lord pursue after his servant? For wherein have I offended, or what iniquity is there found in me?

¹¹ Then David took hold of his garments, and rent them, and all the men who were with him rent their garments, ¹² and beat their breasts, and wept, and fasted till evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Juda, and for the house of Israel, because they had been smitten with the sword.

¹⁷ Then David sung this funereal Ode over Saul, and over Jonathan his son,

³ He will be my guard, in him I will trust; He is my defence, and the horn of my salvation; My helper and my refuge for safety. From an unrighteous man thou wilt save me.

³⁶ Then Elias raised his voice to heaven and said, Lord, the God of Abraham and of Isaak and of Israel, hearken to me! Lord, hearken to me this day by fire, And let all this people know, that thou art the Lord God of Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that by thee I have done these works. ³⁷ Hearken to me, Lord! Hearken to me; and let this people know, that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned the heart of this people back again.

²⁵ For behold they besieged it until an ass's head was sold for fifty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a kab of vetches for five shekels of silver. ²⁶ And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him and said, Save me, my lord, king! ²⁷ And the king said to her, Unless the Lord save thee, whence can I save thee, from the threshing floor or from the press? ²⁸ Then the king said to her, What is the matter with thee? And the woman said, This woman said to me, Give thy son that we may eat him to-day; and we will eat my son to-morrow. ²⁹ So when we had boiled my son and eaten him, I said to her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him; but she hath hidden her son.

¹⁹ But now, Lord our God, save us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth will know that thou the Lord alone art God.

²³ and destined to be food for vultures. He knoweth within himself that he waiteth for a fall; and a dark day will torture him.

¹² Doth not he who dwelleth on high, observe; but hath he humbled the haughty? ¹³ Yes, thou hast said, How can the Almighty know? Can he judge in darkness?

¹ But now the meanest have me in derision: now, those undertake to admonish me; whose fathers I held in contempt: whom I did not think worthy the dogs of my flocks. ² What in deed was the strength of their hands to me? Destruction would have been lost upon them. ³ By reason of want and famine it was useless. Already they were fleeing ineffectually from distress and misery: ⁴ they were crouding round the samphire on the sounding shore; and feeding on sea weeds as their food; despicable and contemned and in want of every thing good, they through extreme want were chewing even the roots of trees. ⁵ Against me thieves have risen up, ⁶ whose habitations were the clefts of rocks. ⁷ Amidst this tuneful choir, are to be heard the brawls of them who lived under hedges.

²³ For these things great is the glory and honour of the Almighty. As we cannot find another equal to him in majesty; dost thou not think that he who judgeth righteously will hear?

¹² Extinguish also the haughty, and turn the wicked into instant corruption.

² The kings of the earth combined; and the chiefs assembled together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, [saying]

⁴ He who dwelleth in heaven will laugh them to scorn; the Lord will treat them with derision.

³ But thou, Lord, art my protector; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

¹ For the conclusion with psalms. An Ode by David. When I made my supplication; my righteous God heard me: thou hast enlarged me in distress: be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

³ In the morning thou shalt hear my voice: in the morning I will wait on thee and look up.

⁶ thou wilt destroy all them who speak lies; a bloody and deceitful man the Lord abhorreth.

⁸ Lead me, Lord, in thy saving goodness: direct my way before thee, because of mine enemies; because there is no truth in their mouth.

¹ A Psalm by David which he sung to the Lord respecting the words of Chousi the Jeminite. Lord, my God, in thee I have put my trust: save me from all my persecutors and deliver me: ² perhaps he like a lion may tear my soul; if there be none to redeem; none to deliver. ³ Lord, my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands: ⁴ if I have requited them evil who did me wrong; let me fall by mine enemies as a Worthless man: ⁵ let mine enemy pursue my soul and take it; let him tread down my life to the earth and lay my honour in the dust. ⁶ Arise, Lord, in thine indignation: exalt thyself in the borders of mine enemies. Awake, Lord my God, in the judgment thou hast enjoined.

⁹ Let the wickedness of sinners be brought to an end. Thou wilt indeed direct the righteous: thou art the God who searcheth hearts and reins.

¹² will, unless you turn back, sharpen his sword. He hath bent his bow and made it ready: ¹³ and hath fitted to it the instruments of death; those flaming bolts of his which he hath forged.

⁹ The Lord was a refuge for the distressed, a seasonable helper in adversity.

¹⁵ The nations were completely entrapped by the destruction which they contrived; in the gin which they hid, their foot is caught.

² When the wicked exulteth with pride, the poor is set on fire; they are caught by the counsels which they devise.

⁷ Is not his mouth full of cursing, and bitterness and deceit?

⁹ He lurketh in secret like a lion in his den; He lurketh to make a prey of the poor. To make a prey of the poor when he hath drawn him in; in his net he will humble him. ¹⁰ He will stoop and crouch at his tyrannising over the poor; ¹¹ For he said in his heart God hath forgotten; He hath turned his face from ever seeing.

¹³ Why hath the wicked provoked God?; For he said in his heart, He will not make inquisition.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor; because of the groans of the needy; now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set in safety and speak boldly.

¹ For the conclusion. By David the servant of the Lord: who spake to the Lord the words of this Ode on the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul; and he said: I Will love thee, Lord, my strength!

¹ For the conclusion. By David the servant of the Lord: who spake to the Lord the words of this Ode on the day when the Lord delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul; and he said: I Will love thee, Lord, my strength! ² The Lord is my support, my refuge and my deliverer. My God is my helper, in him I will trust: my protector, the horn of my salvation and my defender.

⁴⁸ my deliverer from outrageous enemies. From them who rise up against me, thou wilt lift me up; from the man of violence thou wilt deliver me.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. The Lord hearken to thee in a day of distress! The name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

³ For thou hast pre-engaged him with kind blessings. Thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.

¹³ Be thou, Lord, exalted by thy power: let us sing and extol thy acts of government.

¹⁶ Because many dogs have encompassed me, an assembly of wicked men have beset me; have pierced my hands and my feet;

⁹ Destroy not my soul with the wicked nor my life with blood thirsty men;

¹ A Psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my saviour. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil doers approached me, to devour my flesh; they, who afflicted me, even mine enemies fainted and fell.

¹⁴ Wait for the Lord and be of good courage; let thy heart be strengthened and wait for the Lord.

⁵ Because at his wrath there is vexation; but in his favour, life; in the evening weeping may pitch its tent; and in the morning, joy.

⁷ I will exult with joy and rejoice in thy mercy: because thou hast looked on my humiliation; hast delivered my soul from these distresses;

¹⁹ Over me, let not these, my bitter enemies, vainly rejoice; who hate me without cause, and give assent with their eyes.

²³ Arise, Lord, and attend to my trial, my God and my Lord, for my justification.

⁵ Lord, thy mercy is in the heavens, and thy truth reacheth to the clouds.

¹³ but the Lord will laugh him to scorn, for he foreseeth that his day will come.

³² The sinner watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to kill him; ³³ but the Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor suffer him to condemn him when he is judged.

¹² But they who seek my life pressed forward: and they who seek my ruin spake vanities. All the day long they studied deceits.

¹¹ Thou hast delivered us up as sheep, to be devoured, and hast scattered us among the nations.

²³ awake: why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise and cast us not off forever.

¹ At the conclusion. For the sons of Kora. A Psalm concerning hidden things. GOD is our refuge and strength; our helper in the troubles which often befal us.

⁷ The Lord of armies is with us; our helper is the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ Be still and know that I am God: let me be exalted among the nations, let me be exalted in the earth. ¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us, our helper is the God of Jacob.

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.

³ For strangers have risen up against me; and men of power have sought my life. They have not set God before them.

⁵ He will turn these evils on mine enemies. Destroy thou them in thy truth.

⁷ because thou hast delivered me from all affliction; and among mine enemies mine eye hath looked on.

¹⁵ Let death come upon them; Let them go down alive to the mansion of the dead: because there was wickedness in their dwellings; in the midst of them.

²¹ they were scattered by the indignation of his countenance. When his heart was near, his words were smoother than oil. Now they are daggers.

²³ But thou, O God, wilt drag them down to the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But as for me I will trust in thee, Lord.

² Mine enemies have trodden me down the whole day, with the day in their favour. Because they who fight against me are many,

⁶ Some are to dwell near and hide themselves: some are to watch my footsteps.

¹ For the conclusion. Destroy not. By David for a monumental inscription, when he fled to the cave from the presence of Saul. Be merciful to me, O God; be merciful to me. For in thee my soul hath trusted: and in the shadow of thy wings I will put my trust, until this iniquity pass away.

⁴ and delivered my soul from the midst of lions. I laid me down to sleep, troubled as I was. As for the sons of men, their teeth are weapons and darts; and their tongue is a sharp sword.

¹ For the conclusion. Destroy not. By David, for a monumental inscription. Do you indeed speak righteousness? Do you judge uprightly, sons of men?

⁵ Do thou, Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel! attend to visit all the nations: shew no mercy to any workers of iniquity. ⁶ They are to return at evening; and suffer hunger like a dog, and go round the city.

⁹ My strength is with thee: I will keep watch: for thou, God, art my supporter. ¹⁰ My God will cause his mercy to go before me: my God will display it to me among mine enemies. ¹¹ Slay them not. Perhaps they may have forgotten thy law. Scatter them with thy power; and bring them back, Lord, my defender.

¹⁴ over the ends of the earth. They are to return at evening and

¹⁷ to thee, my God, I will sing; thou art my supporter, my God, my comfort.

² From the extremity of the land, I cried to thee, when my heart began to despond: at Petra thou didst raise me up, and conduct me. ³ Because thou hast been my hope; a strong tower from the face of a foe;

² For my God and my Saviour himself, is my supporter; I shall never any more be shaken.

⁵ But be thou, O my soul, subjected to God: for from him is mine expectation. ⁶ Because my God and my Saviour himself, is my support; I shall no more wander as an exile.

¹¹ Once God hath spoken; these two things I have heard: That strength belongeth to God,

³ They sharpened their tongues like a sword: they bent a bow, a bitter thing, ⁴ to shoot secretly a blameless man: They are to shoot him suddenly and not be afraid. ⁵ They strengthened for themselves an evil matter: they talked of hiding snares, saying, Who can see us?

⁷ Their Wounds became the dart of infants: ⁸ when their tongues vilified him. All that saw them were troubled:

⁴ They who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head. Mine enemies who persecute me wrongfully are become strong. I have made compensation on the spot for what I did not take by violence.

⁴ my God, deliver me out of a sinner's hand; out of the hand of an unrighteous and cruel man.

¹¹ They indeed said, How doth God know? and, Is there any knowledge in the Most High?

² In the day of my affliction I sought God with my hands in the night before him; and I was not disappointed. My soul had refused to be comforted;

⁸ Remember not our former iniquities: let thy tender mercies overtake us speedily: as we are greatly distressed;

¹² Retribute to these neighbours of ours; into their bosom seven fold; their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, Lord.

⁴ Lord, the God of hosts! How long wilt thou continue thine anger, against the prayer of this servant of thine?

¹⁸ and let them know that thy name is the Lord; that thou alone art the Most High over all the earth.

⁸ Lord, the God of hosts, hear my prayer; hearken to it, God of Jacob. ⁹ God, our shield behold: look down on the face of thine Anointed.

¹¹ Because the Lord loveth mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them who walk in innocence.

¹³ For thy mercy to me hath been great; thou hast delivered my soul from the deepest mansion of the dead.

¹³ As for me, I have cried to thee, Lord, and in the morning my prayers shall be before thee.

¹ On understanding. By Aitham the Israelite. LORD, I will sing of thy mercies forever; I will proclaim thy truth with my mouth to all generations.

⁸ But thou with thine eyes shalt observe, and see the reward of the wicked.

¹⁴ [J] Because he trusted in me, I will deliver him: I will protect him because he knew my name.

¹¹ Mine eye hath looked on among mine enemies: and among the wicked who rise against me, mine ear will hear.

⁴ Shall they declaim and utter injustice? Shall all the workers of iniquity speak?

⁷ and said, The Lord cannot see, nor can the God of Jacob discern. ⁸ Consider I beseech you, ye brutish among the people. And ye fools, at length be wise. ⁹ Doth not he, who hath planted the ear, hear? And doth not he who formed the eye, see?

¹ A Psalm by David. I Will sing of mercy and judgment: to thee, Lord, I will tune my lyre.

³⁵ Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and the wicked so as to be no more; my soul, bless thou the Lord.

⁸ yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power.

²⁷ and cast back their seed among the nations; and disperse them in the countries.

² for against me the mouth of a sinner; and the mouth of the deceitful is opened. They have spoken against me with a deceitful tongue. ³ With words of hatred they encompassed me about; and fought against me without provocation.

¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds and beg: let them be cast out from their dwellings.

¹⁷ As he loved cursing, let it come on him: as he delighted not in blessing let it be far from him. ¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing as with a mantle; and it came like water in his bowels; and like oil into his bones:

⁸ His heart is established, he could not be terrified; even when he beheld his enemies.

¹ An Alleluia. I Am full of love, because the Lord will hear the voice of my supplication. ² Because to me he inclined his ear: therefore in my days I will invoke him. ³ The pangs of death encompassed me; the perils of Hades found me: I met with distress and sorrow: ⁴ thereupon I invoked the name of the Lord; Lord deliver my soul. ⁵ The Lord is gracious and righteous; merciful indeed is our God.

³ What should be given thee? Or what return made thee for a deceitful tongue? ⁴ Arrows of the mighty sharpened with devouring coals.

⁵ For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all the Gods. ⁶ All that the Lord pleased he hath done in heaven and on earth: in the seas and in all the deeps.

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou canst keep me alive. Against the rage of enemies thou hast stretched forth thy hand: and thy right hand hath saved me.

¹⁹ Since thou, God, slayest sinners: begone from me ye bloody men.

⁹ Let the amount of their compassings; the labour of their lips cover them. ¹⁰ On them shall fall coals of fire in the land; and thou wilt overthrow them with miseries; that they may not rise up again.

⁸ Cause me to hear thy kindness in the morning; for in thee I have placed my confidence. O Lord, let me know which way I shall go; for to thee I have lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies; for to thee I have fled for refuge.

¹² and in thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul; for I am thy servant.

¹¹ let them speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy government:

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²⁶ therefore I will laugh at your calamity; and mock when your destruction cometh.

² For a man's own lips are a powerful snare, and he is caught by the words of his own mouth.

⁶ The righteousness of upright men delivereth them: but transgressors are caught by their destruction.

⁶ The words of the wicked are deceitful: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

¹³ By the transgression of his lips a sinner falleth into snares: but out of them a righteous man maketh his escape. He whose looks are mild will gain compassion: but he who contendeth in the gates will afflict souls.

¹⁸ They who wound with their speeches are swords: but the tongues of the wise are healing.

² The tongue of the wise knoweth good things; but the mouth of fools poureth out evils.

²⁸ The hearts of the righteous study faithfulness: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. The ways of the righteous are acceptable to the Lord: and by them enemies are made friends.

⁷ The mouth of a fool is his destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soul.

⁵ because they who are alive must know that they shall die; but the dead are not sensible of any thing and there is no more a portion for them; because the remembrance of these is forgotten,

¹⁰ Hear a word of the Lord, chiefs of Sodom! Attend to the law of God, ye people of Gomorra!

²¹ Upon you indeed there shall come a grievous famine; and it shall come to pass that when you are hungry, you will fret and curse the ruler and the customs of your country. And they will look up to the heaven above,

² Behold! my God is my Saviour, I will trust in him and not be afraid. Because the Lord is my glory and my praise; and hath become unto me salvation;

³ who support truth and keep peace; because their confidence is placed in thee, Lord! ⁴ who art to everlasting, the Mighty, the Eternal God,

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.

¹⁶ he shall dwell in a lofty cavern of a strong rock: bread shall be given him and his water shall not fail.

³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

⁹ Awake, awake, Jerusalem! and clothe thyself with the strength of thine arm. Awake as at the beginning of day.

⁵ thou shalt remember no more. For the Lord who is thy maker, whose name is the Lord of Hosts; even he who delivered thee, shall be called the God of Israel, in the whole earth.

¹¹ yet these dogs are of untamed appetite; they can never have enough. They are indeed mischievous, they have no consideration. They all followed their own courses, every one according to his own purpose.

¹⁴ and trust continually in the Lord; he will then mount thee on the good places of the land and feed thee on the inheritance of thy father Jacob: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these words.

⁷ Their feet are running to evil; they are swift to shed blood. And their reasonings are reasonings for murders. Destruction and misery are in their ways,

²⁴ therefore it shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer them: and while they are yet speaking I will say, "What is the matter."

¹⁶ As for me, I was not weary of following Thee, nor did I desire the day of a man: Thou knowest. The words which pass my lips are before Thee,

²³ Thou indeed, Lord, knewest all their designs against me to put me to death. Absolve them not from their wickedness, nor blot out their sins from before thee. Let their weakness be before thee. Deal with them in the time of thy wrath.

⁷ [J] It is because that great day is come which is unparalleled. It is indeed a distressful time to Jacob, but by this he shall be saved.

⁴ The tongue of a sucking babe cleaved to the roof of its mouth for thirst: infants asked for bread, there is none who breaketh it for them. ⁵ They who had fed upon dainties perished in the highways; they who had been nursed in scarlet were covered with dung.

⁹ The victims of the sword are more beautiful than those slain by famine. These stalked about pierced through for want of the fruits of the field. ¹⁰ The hands of tender hearted women boiled their own children; these were food for them in the extreme distress of the daughter of my people.

⁹ At the peril of our lives we must gather in our corn, because of the sword of the desert.

¹⁵ and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have dispersed them among the nations. For I will disperse them through the countries ¹⁶ and leave a few of them from the sword, and from famine, and from pestilence, that they may declare all their iniquities among the nations whither they go. And they shall know that I am the Lord.

²² still, behold some are left in it, the saved of it, who are leading out of it sons and daughters; behold they are coming out to you and you shall see their ways and their desires, and be sorry for the evils which they have brought on Jerusalem; for all the evils which they have brought upon it. 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.

²⁷ And when a wicked man turneth from his wickedness which he committed, and shall practise justice and righteousness; He hath saved his soul. ²⁸ He hath turned away from all his wicked acts which he committed; he shall surely live; he shall not die.

²³ And I shall be magnified and hallowed and glorified; and made known in the sight of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷ And my holy name shall be known in the midst of my people Israel; and my name which is holy shall no more be profaned; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵ Thou wilt be driven from among men; and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they will feed thee with grass like an ox; and thou shalt lodge in the dew of heaven; and seven seasons shall revolve over thee, till thou be made sensible that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will.

² Cursing and lying and murder and theft and adultery are burst out on the land, and blood mingleth with blood;

⁷ Are not you, Israelites, the same to me as the Ethiopians, saith the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines out of Cappadocia and the Syrians from Bothras?

⁵ Thus saith the Lord against the prophets who led my people astray, who gnash with their teeth and proclaim peace for them, though it was not put in their mouths; they have raised up war against them.

² that the pious is perished from the land, and among men there is not an upright man left! [J] They are all indicted for capital crimes: they grievously afflict every man his neighbour:

¹⁹ The Lord God is my strength, and will guide my feet to the end. He maketh me walk in high places; that I may triumph with his song.

¹¹ In that day thou shalt not be put to shame for all thy devices, which thou hast impiously devised against me; because I will then take away from thee those trifles which occasion thy haughtiness, that thou mayst no more continue to boast of my holy mountain;

¹³ and bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil [for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for the ages, amen.

³⁴ Brood of vipers! how can you who are evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

³⁶ Now I assure you in respect to every idle word which men shall utter, they shall give an account thereof in a day of judgment. ³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shall be condemned.

¹⁷ And if he disregard them, tell the congregation; and if he disregard the congregation, let him be to thee as the heathen and the publican.

⁷ For nation will rise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places. ⁸ Now all these are the beginning of sorrows.

²⁵ Upon which all the people, answering, said, His blood be upon us and upon our children.

⁶³ and said, Sir, we have recollected that this impostor, when alive, said, After three days I shall be raised up.

⁵¹ With his arm he hath displayed strength. He hath scattered them who were elated with the imagination of their heart. ⁵² From thrones he hath hurled potentates, and exalted them of low degree.

⁷⁴ that he would grant us, that we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, may serve him without fear, ⁷⁵ in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

⁴¹ And as he drew near he viewed the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, O that thou hadst known; even thou; even in this very ay of thine, the things which were for thy peace! But now they are hidden from thine eyes. ⁴³ For days will come upon thee, when thine enemies will surround thee with a rampire; and enclose thee; and shut thee up on every side; ⁴⁴ and dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and not leave one stone on another; because thou didst not know the time of this thy visitation.

²¹ Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let them who are in the midst of this [city] withdraw; and let not them who are in the regions enter it.

⁵ But they were the more vehement, saying, He raiseth sedition among the people, teaching through all Judea, from Galilee, where he began, even to this place.

²⁵ But by this is fulfilled the word which is written in their law, They hated me without cause.

²⁶ The kings of the earth combined, and the chiefs assembled together against the Lord and against his Anointed." ²⁷ For indeed against thy holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and the tribes of Israel, were gathered together,

¹⁵ Now therefore do you with the Sanhedrim make application to the commander that he may bring him down to you to morrow, as being about to examine his affair more minutely. And as for us, before he come near, we are prepared to kill him.

²¹ but be not prevailed on by them; for there are more than forty men of them in ambush, who have bound themselves by a solemn anathema not to eat nor drink, till they have killed him, and they are now ready, expecting this promise from thee.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; nor is that circumcision, which is barely in the flesh: ²⁹ but he, who is a Jew inwardly, whose circumcision is that of the heart"spiritually not literally, whose praise is not from men, but from God.

¹⁵ Their feet are swift to shed blood.

⁶ It is not however to be supposed that the word of God hath failed. For with regard to all the descendants of Israel, they are not Israel;

² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For being ignorant of the righteousness of God's appointment, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they did not submit themselves to God's righteousness.

⁹ and that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "For this cause I will praise thee among the nations and sing to thy name."

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,

¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will still deliver us,

³² At Damascus the governor under king Aretas posted guards in the city of the Damascenes, with a design to seize me, ³³ whereupon I was let down in a basket, through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands.

⁶ for the praise of the glory of that favour of his with which he made us objects of favour in the Beloved; ⁷ by whom we have this redemption by his blood; the forgiveness of our sins according to the richness of his grace

⁴ then God, who is rich in mercy, on the account of the great love with which he loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in those trespasses, did bring us to life with the Christ, [by grace you are saved]

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do infinitely above all that we can ask or conceive, according to that power which is operative in us

¹⁵ For this we tell you by a word of the Lord, that we the living who are left till the coming of the Lord shall not anticipate them who are laid to rest

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that the proclamation might be made completely by me, and that all the nations might hear it. And I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion. ¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁷ He, [who in the days of his flesh, having, with a strong cry and tears, offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being hearkened to, did, from a reverential awe notwithstanding his being a son, learn obedience from what he suffered;

¹³ for the sentence of judgment shall be without mercy for him who hath not exercised mercy, though mercy glorieth over a sentence of judgment.

¹⁰ Now may the God of all favour, who hath invited us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when we have suffered a little may he himself fit, support, strengthen and establish you!

⁶ And in those days the men will seek death and shall not find it; and they will earnestly desire to die and death will flee from them.