Psalms 68 Cross References - Thomson

¹ For the conclusion. By David. A Psalm of an Ode. Let God arise and his enemies be scattered; and let them who hate him flee before him. ² As smoke vanisheth, let them disappear: as wax melteth before fire, so let sinners perish at the presence of God. ³ But let them who are righteous rejoice; let them shout for joy at the presence of God; let them be transported with gladness. ⁴ Sing to God; celebrate his name in songs: make way for him who is riding westward. His name is the Lord, rejoice before him. ⁵ Let them be awed at the presence of him, who is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of them who are widows. God is in a place consecrated to him: ⁶ God settleth the lonely in a family, having brought out with strength them who had been bound; in like manner them who were rebellious; them, whose habitation is now in tombs. ⁷ When thou, God, wentest forth before thy people; when thou wast marching through the wilderness; ⁸ the earth shook and the heavens dissolved in showers at the presence of the God of Sina: at the presence of the God of Israel. ⁹ Thou, God, canst assign to thy heritage rain, at pleasure; when they were fainty thou didst refresh them. ¹⁰ Thine animals dwell among them: in thy goodness thou didst provide for the distressed. ¹¹ God the Lord will issue an order to them, who publish good news to the mighty host; ¹² the king of the armies of the Beloved [to the army] of the Beloved, to divide spoils for beautifying the house. ¹³ Though you may have slept in kitchens; the wings of a dove covered with silver, while its back is spangled with yellow gold, ¹⁴ shall, when the Almighty scattereth kings before it, be white as the snow on Selmon. ¹⁵ The mountain of God! a fertile mountain! Is a curdled mountain a fertile mountain? ¹⁶ But why do you suppose curdled mountains? This is the mount on which God is pleased to dwell, for the Lord will at length dwell there. ¹⁷ The chariots of God are innumerable: there are thousands of happy attendants. The Lord was among them at Sina, ¹⁸ In this holy place having ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive; and received gifts in the manner of man in token [for some were incredulous] of thy dwelling there. ¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord God! Blessed be the Lord. Day by day let the God of our salvation prosper us! ²⁰ Our God is the God to save; and to the Lord belong the out goings of death. ²¹ But God will crush the heads of his enemies; the hairy head of them who persist in their trespasses. ²² The Lord said, I will bring back from Basan; I will bring back through the depths of a sea; ²³ that thy foot may be dipped in blood; the tongue of thy dogs, in that of his enemies. ²⁴ Thy marches, O God, have been seen; the marches of my God, my king, in this holy place. ²⁵ The chiefs went before next to the band of musick, in the midst of damsels playing on timbrels, ²⁶ "bless ye God in assemblies: the Lord, ye from the fountains of Israel! ²⁷ There was young Benjamin in a rapture; there the chiefs of Juda, the leaders; the chiefs of Zabulon, the chiefs of Nephthaleim. ²⁸ Command, God, thine army; strengthen this, God, which thou hast established among us. ²⁹ Because of thy temple at Jerusalem, let kings bring thee gifts. ³⁰ Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed, that the silvery shoals may not be intercepted. Is there an assembly of bulls among the heifers of the people? Scatter the nations which delight in war. ³¹ Ambassadors shall come from Egypt; Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands to God. ³² O ye kingdoms of the earth, sing to God: sing to the Lord in harmonious strains; in harmonious strains sing to God, ³³ who rode on the eastern heaven of heaven. Behold with his voice he will utter a voice of power. ³⁴ Ascribe ye glory to God. His excellency is over Israel; and his power is in the clouds. ³⁵ God is awful among his saints: he is the God of Israel. He will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be our God!

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;

³⁵ And when the ark set forward Moses said, Arise, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered. Let them who hate thee be put to flight.

¹⁰ and who requiteth to their face them who hate him, so as to destroy them. To them indeed who hate him he will not be slack; to their face he will requite them.

⁴¹ And, now, arise, Lord God, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength. Let thy priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and thy children made glad with good things.

⁶ Arise, Lord, in thine indignation: exalt thyself in the borders of mine enemies. Awake, Lord my God, in the judgment thou hast enjoined. ⁷ And when the congregation of the tribes encompass thee; ascend thou on high above them:

⁸ Let thine enemies feel thy hand: and thy right hand find out all that hate thee.

²⁶ arise Lord; come to our assistance and deliver us for the sake of thy name.

¹¹ Slay them not. Perhaps they may have forgotten thy law. Scatter them with thy power; and bring them back, Lord, my defender.

¹⁴ shall, when the Almighty scattereth kings before it, be white as the snow on Selmon.

³⁰ Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed, that the silvery shoals may not be intercepted. Is there an assembly of bulls among the heifers of the people? Scatter the nations which delight in war.

⁶⁵ At length the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, as a mighty man recovered from wine; ⁶⁶ and he smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and cast an everlasting reproach on them. ⁶⁷ But he rejected the habitation of Joseph, and did not chuse the tribe of Ephraim; ⁶⁸ but made choice of the tribe of Juda; of this mount Sion which he loved,

¹⁰ Thou hast humbled the proud like one slain; with thy mighty arm thou hast scattered thy foes.

⁸ Arise, Lord, and go up to thy rest, thou and the ark of thy holiness. ⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and thy saints shout for joy.

³ At the terror of thy voice peoples were confounded; for fear of thee the nations were dispersed.

¹⁵ Behold I have made thee like the wheels of a wain bruising to pieces a brood of pigeons: thou indeed shalt grind mountains and reduce hills to small pieces, and make them like dust: ¹⁶ and thou shalt winnow them; and a wind shall take them up, and a whirlwind shall sweep them away; but thou shalt be gladdened in the sanctuaries of Israel;

¹³ The Lord God of Hosts will come forth and tread down battle; he will rouse up his zeal, and shout against his enemies with majesty. ¹⁴ [J] I have been silent; but shall I always keep silence and forbear? Like a woman in travail I have endured suffering; I will strike with astonishment and wither at once.

⁹ Awake, awake, Jerusalem! and clothe thyself with the strength of thine arm. Awake as at the beginning of day. ¹⁰ Art thou not as the generation of old, which dried up the sea; the swelling water of the deep? Which made the depths of the sea a road for the delivered and redeemed to pass?

² thou shalt burn the fourth part of it with fire, in the space before the city; during the completion of the days of the siege. And thou shalt take another fourth part and burn it in the midst of the city; and thou shalt hack with the sword another fourth part, around the city; and the other fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind and I will draw out a sword after them.

¹⁴ And all his helpers about him, and all them who assist him, I will scatter to every wind and make bare a sword to pursue them: 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

³⁵ Then were broken to pieces at once, the clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold. And they became like the dust of a threshing floor in summer: and a great wind swept them away, and there was no place found for them. And the stone which smote the image became a great mountain and filled all the earth.

²³ Jesus in reply, said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him; and we will come to him and make an abode with him. ²⁴ He who doth not love me, doth not keep my words. Now the word which you hear is not mine only, but the Fathers who sent me.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are torn asunder: my heart within me is melted like wax.

²⁰ Because the sinners shall perish. Therefore when the enemies of the Lord were exalted and glorified; they were flitting away like smoke, and vanishing.

⁷ Thou art terrible; who therefore can withstand thee, on the account of thine indignation.

¹⁶ It is burned up with fire and rooted up. At the rebuke of thy countenance are they to perish?

⁵ The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord; at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

¹⁸ Still iniquity will burn like a fire, and like dry stubble it shall be consumed by fire. It shall burn in the thickets of the forest, and consume all on the hills around.

² as wax melteth before fire; and a fire will burn up the adversaries, and thy name will be manifest to the adversaries; At thy presence the nations will be troubled.

³ For this cause they shall be like a morning cloud, and like a transient dew of the morning; like chaff blown from a winnowing floor and like a vapour from tears.

⁴ and under him the mountains will tremble, and the vallies shall melt like wax before fire, and be like water rolling down a precipice. ⁵ At him the mountains quake and the hills tremble; at his presence the earth is startled; the World and all its inhabitants. ⁶ At the presence of his wrath who can stand, or who can resist his fierce indignation? His wrath dissolveth governments, and by him the rocks are rent to pieces.

⁸ executing, with flaming fire, vengeance on them who know not God, and on them who hearken not to the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ These shall suffer punishment, an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty,

¹⁶ saying to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him who is sitting on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷ for the great day of His wrath is come and who is able to stand?"

¹² and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men servants, and your maid servants, and the Levite who is at your gates, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. Lord, in thy strength, the king will rejoice; and exult greatly in thy salvation.

¹¹ Rejoice in the Lord and exult ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye who are upright in heart.

⁴ Let me go to the altar of God; to God, the joy of my youth. With a kithara, I will praise thee, God, my God.

¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the punishment of the wicked; he will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

¹⁰ Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord and trust in him: and let all the upright in heart be praised.

¹ The praise of an Ode, by David. O COME, let us sing with joy to the Lord; let us shout triumphantly to God our Saviour: ² let us approach his presence with a song of praise, and shout with joy to him in psalms,

¹² Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks at the mention of his holiness.

⁸ Let the rivers unite in applauses; let the mountains exult with joy; ⁹ that he is come to judge the earth. He will judge the World with righteousness, and the several tribes with equity.

¹ A Psalm of praise. Shout triumphantly for the Lord, all ye of the land. ² Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him with the shout of joy.

¹⁶ Be always cheerful.

⁸ whom without knowing him personally you love; in whom though you do not now see him, yet you believe, and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorified joy,

²⁰ Rejoice over her, O heaven! and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

⁷ let us rejoice and exult with joy and ascribe to him the glory; for the marriage of the lamb is come and his spouse hath made herself ready

¹⁴ On which God spoke to Moses saying, I am The I Am. Moreover he said, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, The I Am hath sent me to you.

³ and I appeared to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob as their God. Though I did not clearly manifest to them my name Lord,

⁸ And I will bring you to the land for which I stretched out my hand to give it to Abraham and Isaak and Jacob. And I will give it to you for a heritage. I am the Lord.

²⁶ There is none like the God of the Beloved. He who rideth on the heaven is thy helper, And be is mighty to give support.

¹⁰ He mounted on cherubs and flew; he flew on the wings of winds.

² Sing harmoniously to his name, ascribe glory to his praise.

⁴ Let all the earth worship thee. With music vocal and instrumental let them sing to thee; let them sing harmoniously to thy name.

⁴ Let nations be glad and rejoice, because thou judgest peoples righteously, and wilt guide nations on the earth.

³³ who rode on the eastern heaven of heaven. Behold with his voice he will utter a voice of power.

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

³ Thou art he who covereth his chambers with waters who maketh clouds his chariot; who walketh on the wings of winds;

⁴ Thou shalt say also on that day, praise the Lord: invoke his name aloud! proclaim among the nations his glorious acts: call them up to your remembrance. Because his name is exalted; ⁵ praise ye the name of the Lord. Because he hath done stupendous acts; proclaim them throughout the whole earth. ⁶ Shout for joy and be glad, inhabitants of Sion, for in the midst of it is exalted the Holy One of Israel.

¹ A vision concerning Egypt. Behold the Lord is seated on a swift cloud; and he will come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence; and the heart of the people shall melt within them.

³ A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight the roads for our God.

¹⁰ Go through my gates and prepare the way for my people and throw the stones out of the way. Erect a standard for the nations.

¹⁸ He administereth justice to the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

¹⁵ Look down from thy holy habitation; from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and this land which thou hast given them, as thou didst solemnly promise our fathers to give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

² Now I have built a house for thy name, dedicated to thee, and furnished for thy everlasting habitation.

²⁷ Then the priests, the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer reached his holy was heard, and their prayer reached his holy habitation, even heaven.

¹² for I saved the poor from the hand of the mighty; and assisted the orphan who had no helper. ¹³ The blessing of him who was perishing came upon me: and the mouth of the widow blessed me.

¹⁶ Far from depriving the poor of what they had, or causing the heart of a widow to fail; ¹⁷ if I have eaten my morsel alone, and have not shared it with the orphan;

¹⁴ Thou seest [for thou observest mischief and wrath]; That they have delivered themselves into thy hands. To thee the poor hath committed himself; Thou art the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁸ to administer justice to the fatherless and the weak: That man may no longer continue his insolence in the land.

¹⁴ He looked down from his fixed habitation on all the inhabitants of the earth.

² That he may judge thy people with righteousness; and thy distressed ones with judgment.

⁴ Let him judge righteously such of the people as are distressed; and save the children of the needy: and humble oppressors:

³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand.

⁹ The Lord preserveth the strangers. He will support the orphan and the widow, and destroy the way of the wicked.

²³ The chiefs are rebellious; associates of thieves: they love gifts; they seek rewards: to orphans they do not administer justice; and to the cause of widows they do not attend.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who on earth inhabiteth eternity, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, and life to them who are of a contrite heart;

¹ Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth, my footstool: what sort of an house will you build for me? And of what sort shall be the place of my rest?

²⁸ and overleaped judgment; they did not administer justice to the orphan, nor decide righteously the cause of the widow;

¹¹ [p] By means of the hand of his brother my neighbour, there is indeed no place for thine orphan to be left that it may live. [J] But I will cause it to live. In me the widows have trusted.

³ Assur cannot save us. We will no more mount horses; we will no more say to the works of our hand, "You are our gods." He who is in thee will compassionate the fatherless.

² saying, There was in a certain city a judge, who neither feared God, nor regarded man. ³ And there was in that city a widow, who went to him, saying, Do me justice on mine adversary. ⁴ And for a while he would not. But afterwards he said within himself, Though I neither fear God, nor regard man, ⁵ yet because this widow giveth me trouble, I will do her justice, that she may not, by coming perpetually, torment me. ⁶ And the Lord said, Hear what this unjust judge saith! ⁷ And will not God vindicate the cause of his chosen, who are crying to him day and night"? Will he linger in their cause?

⁴⁸ But the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands. As the prophet saith, ⁴⁹ "The heaven is my throne, and the earth, my footstool. What sort of a house will you build for me? saith the Lord. And of what sort shall be the place of my rest?

¹ be ye therefore imitators of God as beloved children.

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.

⁵ They who were full of bread have been brought low; And they who were hungry have reached land. For she who was barren hath born seven children; And she who abounded in children hath been made weak.

³³ For the Lord hath hearkened to the needy, and hath not despised his prisoners.

¹⁰ As for them who sat in darkness and the shadow of death; bound with affliction and irons;

¹⁴ and brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death; and burst their chains asunder.

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

⁴⁰ Contempt hath been poured on their princes: and he hath caused them to wander in a trackless desert. ⁴¹ Then out of affliction he hath helped the needy, and hath made families like a flock.

⁹ Who settleth the barren woman in a family making her a joyful mother of children.

⁷ who keepeth truth forever, executing judgment for the aggrieved, giving food to the hungry.

¹ [M] THE SPIRIT of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor, to heal them who are brokenhearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind:

³ That I may do this I will strip her naked, and reduce her to the state she was in at her birth. I will indeed make her desolate, and order her to a land without water and kill her with thirst,

³ and slighted Esau and made his borders a waste, and the houses of a desert his inheritance.

⁶ And when Herod was about to bring him forth, on that very night, as Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, being bound with two chains; and the guards before the door were keeping watch, ⁷ behold an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, and a light shone in the prison. And touching Peter's side he roused him up, saying, Arise quickly. Upon which his chains dropped from his hands. ⁸ Then the angel said to him, Gird thyself and put on thy sandals; and when he had done so, then he saith to him, Throw thy mantle around thee and follow me. ⁹ So going out, he followed him, but did not know that what was done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. ¹⁰ And having passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of its own accord. So, going out, they proceeded on through one street, and suddenly the angel left him. ¹¹ Then Peter coming to himself, said, Now I know certainly that the Lord hath sent his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the Jews. ¹² Then, upon recollection, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where many were assembled and praying. ¹³ And when Peter knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant maid named Rhoda, went to inquire who was there. ¹⁴ But knowing Peter's voice, she, for joy, did not open the gate, but ran and told that Peter was at the gate. ¹⁵ Upon which they said to her, Thou art mad. But she confidently affirmed that it was certainly so: then they said, It is his angel. ¹⁶ As Peter continued knocking, they opened the gate, and upon seeing him, were extremely surprised. ¹⁷ But he having beckoned to them with his hand to be silent, related to them how the Lord had brought him out of prison, and said, Tell this to James and the brethren. Then departing, he went to another place. ¹⁸ Now as soon as it was day there was no small disturbance among the soldiers, What was become of Peter. ¹⁹ And Herod having caused search to be made for him, and not finding him, after examining the guards, he ordered them to be led away to execution. Then departing from Judea, he went down to Caesarea and resided there. ²⁰ Now Herod was meditating a war against the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they with one accord waited on him, and having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, they sued for peace, because their country was subsisted by that of the king. ²¹ And on a set day Herod arrayed in robes of state and seated on the throne, made a speech to them, ²² upon which the people shouted, It is the voice of a god and not of a man! ²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory. And being gnawed by worms he died. ²⁴ Still the word of God increased and was multiplied; ²⁵ and Barnabas and Saul, having fully performed their service, had returned from Jerusalem, taking with them John who was surnamed Mark.

²⁶ And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and all the doors were instantly opened,

²⁷ for it is written, Hagar, [which' in Arabic signifies a rock] was and still is the name of Sina among the Arabians; Rejoice thou barren, who bearest not; Break forth with shouts of joy, Thou who sufferest not the pangs of childbirth, For many more are the children of the desolate, Than of her who hath a husband.

²¹ And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them the way, and at night in a pillar of fire.

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?

¹⁴ And Debbora said to Barak, Arise, for this is the day, on which the Lord hath delivered Sisara into thy hand; for the Lord will march before thee. So Barak went down from mount Thabor with ten thousand men after him;

⁴ Lord! in thy march out of Seir, When thou didst remove from the fields of Edom; The earth trembled, and heaven distilled dew; The clouds also distilled water.

¹ An Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt: of the house of Jacob from a barbarous people; ² Judea became his sanctuary; Israel his dominion. ³ The sea saw and fled: Jordan was turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams: the hills, like lambs of the flock. ⁵ What ailed thee, sea, that thou fleddest? And thee, Jordan, that thou turnedst back? ⁶ You, mountains, that you skipped like rams? And you, hills, like lambs of the flock? ⁷ The earth was moved at the presence of the Lord; at the presence of the God of Jacob: ⁸ who turned the rocks into pools of water: and into fountains of water, the flinty rock.

¹³ They have broken through and passed the gate; they are gone through it and their king is gone out before them; and the Lord will be their leader,

¹² With a threat thou canst diminish a land, and with wrath crush nations. ¹³ Thou hast marched forth for the salvation of thy people, to save thine anointed One. Thou wilt pour death on the head of transgressors, thou hast raised chains up to the neck.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day that about dawn there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on mount Sina, and the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, so that all the people in the camp were terrified.

¹⁸ The whole mountain Sina was enveloped with smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire. And the smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, so that all the people were exceedingly amazed.

²³ Now when you heard the voice from the midst of the fire [the mountain indeed was burning with fire] you came to me, even all the leaders of your tribes, and your elders, ²⁴ and said, Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. We have this day seen that God can speak to man, and he may live. ²⁵ Now therefore let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we continue any longer to hear the voice of the Lord our God; and we shall die.

⁴ Lord! in thy march out of Seir, When thou didst remove from the fields of Edom; The earth trembled, and heaven distilled dew; The clouds also distilled water. ⁵ The mountains shook at the presence of the Lord Eloi, That Sina, at the presence of the Lord God of Israel.

¹³ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen. Amen.

³⁵ God is awful among his saints: he is the God of Israel. He will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be our God!

¹⁸ The sound of thy thunder was in the round expanse: thy lightnings illumed the World; the earth shook and trembled.

⁷ The earth was moved at the presence of the Lord; at the presence of the God of Jacob:

³ and give thee treasures of darkness; deep, hidden, unseen treasures I will disclose to thee, that thou mayst know, that I, the Lord thy God, who calleth thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

¹ If thou wilt open the heaven, at thy presence terror will seize the mountains, and they will melt

³ When thou executest thy glorious works, because of thee, terror will seize the mountains.

¹³ Thou hast marched forth for the salvation of thy people, to save thine anointed One. Thou wilt pour death on the head of transgressors, thou hast raised chains up to the neck.

²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth, but he hath now announced, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth but the heaven also."

¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened; and the ark of his covenant in his temple was seen. And there were lightnings and noises and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.

¹⁰ For the land to which you are going, to take possession of it, is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came out, where, when they have sown the seed, they can water it with their feet, like a garden of herbs. ¹¹ But the land to which you are going, to take possession of it, is a land of hills and dales, which drinketh up water from the rain of heaven; ¹² a land over which the Lord thy God keepeth a continual watch. The eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end thereof.

¹⁴ he will give rain for thy land in due season; the former and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

⁹ Thou hast visited the earth and watered it: thou hast multiplied the means of enriching it. The river of God is full of water: thou hast provided the supply for it. Because such is thy provision, O! water its furrows plenteously: multiply its productions. ¹⁰ By these showers on it, it will be gladdened; and will give a spring to vegetation. ¹¹ Bless the crown of the year with thy goodness: and let the fields be filled with fatness; ¹² let the mountains of the wilderness be made fertile; and the hills be girt with joy. ¹³ The rams of the flocks have clothed themselves: and the valleys abound with corn. Let them shout and hymn thy praise.

¹⁶ The waters saw thee, God!; the waters saw thee and were terrified, and the deep gulphs were troubled. ¹⁷ Great was the roaring of the waters; the clouds uttered a sound: for thy bolts were passing through 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. ²⁶ He removed the south east wind out of heaven, and by his power brought on the south west: ²⁷ and rained upon them flesh, like dust: and feathered fowls as the sand of the sea;

²⁶ And I will place them around my mountain, and give them the rain the rain of blessing:

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.

³ when they rose in a body against Moses and Aaron, and said, Be it known to yon that the whole congregation are holy, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you set yourselves against the congregation of the Lord?

⁵ and in the presence of the Lord shall answer, and say, My father left Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, with a small number, and became there a great nation, and a vast multitude.

⁹ and brought us to this place, and gave us this land; a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ Now therefore, behold, I have brought this offering of the products of the land, which thou, Lord, hast given me; a land flowing with milk and honey. Then thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God; and when thou hast worshipped before the Lord thy God,

⁸ When the Most High divided nations; When he dispersed the children of Adam, He settled the boundaries of nations, According to the number of God's messengers; ⁹ And the Lord's portion was his people Jacob; Israel was his lot of inheritance. ¹⁰ He sustained them in the wilderness, In the drought of heat, in a land without water. He led them about, and instructed them; He kept them as the apple of his eye. ¹¹ As an eagle would defend his nest, And, when anxious for his young, would spread out his wings, and receive them, And bare them up on his shoulders; ¹² The Lord alone conducted them, And there was not a strange god with them. ¹³ He brought them up to the strength of this land, He fed them with the products of the fields; They sucked honey out of a rock, And oil out of a flinty rock; ¹⁴ With butter of kine, and with milk of sheep; With the fattest of lambs and rams, young bulls and goats, And with bread of the choicest wheat; And they drank wine, the pure juice of the grape.

⁸ He lifteth up the needy from the ground; And raiseth the beggar from a dunghill; To seat them among a people's princes; And he causeth them to possess a throne of glory.

¹⁰ Who giveth rain on the earth and sendeth water on all under heaven. ¹¹ Who setteth on high them who are low, and raiseth up them who have been ruined.

⁹ Thou hast visited the earth and watered it: thou hast multiplied the means of enriching it. The river of God is full of water: thou hast provided the supply for it. Because such is thy provision, O! water its furrows plenteously: multiply its productions.

¹ Of understanding. By Asaph. O GOD, why hast thou utterly cast off? Why is thy wrath extreme against the sheep of thy pasture? ² Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old; this portion of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed; this mount Sion on which thou hast dwelt.

¹⁹ Deliver not up to the wild beasts a soul which praiseth thee. Forget not forever the souls of thy afflicted people.

²⁰ When he smote a rock, waters gushed out, and streams swelled to an overflowing flood. But can He also give bread, or provide a table for his people?"

⁵ Blind men see, and lame walk. Lepers are cleansed and deaf hear. Dead are raised and poor have glad tidings proclaimed to them.

⁵³ He hath filled the hungry with good things; and sent away the rich empty.

³ not as exercising dominion over the lots, but as being examples to the flock.

¹⁵ Now the Lord had said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel and let them prepare for marching.

²⁰ therefore Mariam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took in her hand a timbrel and all the women went out after her with timbrels in choirs,

⁹ upon which Moses said to Joshua, Select for thyself able men and go out and draw up in array to-morrow against Amalek; when lo I have stood on the top of that hill with the staff of God in my hand. ¹⁰ So Joshua did as Moses commanded him. And when he had gone out and drawn up in array against Amalek, and Moses and Aaron and Hur had gone up to the top of the hill, ¹¹ it came to pass that when Moses held up his hands Israel prevailed; but when he let down his hands Amalek prevailed. ¹² But Moses hands were heavy, therefore they took a stone and put it under him and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, one on one side, and the other, on the other. So his hands were stayed up till the going down of the sun ¹³ and Joshua discomfited Amalek and his whole people with the slaughter of the sword. ¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Write this in a book to keep it in remembrance; and rehearse it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will entirely blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. ¹⁵ And Moses built an altar to the Lord and called its name, The Lord my refuge; ¹⁶ because with a secret hand the Lord fighteth against Amalek from generation to generation.

⁶ And Debbora sent for Barak, son of Abineem, of Kades-Nepthaleim, and said to him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded thee? Go therefore to mount Thabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Nephthaleim, and of the children of Zabulon, ⁷ and I will bring out to thee, to the brook Kison, Sisara the captain general of Jabin's army, with his chariots, and his multitude, and deliver him into thy hands. ⁸ Whereupon Barak said to her, If thou wilt go with me I will go; but if thou will not go, I will not go: for I do not know the day when the Lord would prosper the angel with me. ⁹ And she said I will certainly go with thee; but know, that in the journey which thou takest, the honour of the victory will not be thine; for the Lord will deliver Sisara into the hands of a woman. So Debbora arose, and went with Barak, of Kades. ¹⁰ And Barak called out Zabulon and Nephthaleim from Kades, and there went up after him ten thousand men, and Debbora went up with him. ¹¹ Now Chaber, the Kinite, had removed from Kaina, from among the children of Jobab, Moses' father in law, and had pitched his tent in the oak grove which is near Kades. ¹² And when Sisara was told that Barak, son of Abineem, was gone up to mount Thabor, ¹³ he called out all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all his people with him, from Arisoth of the nations to the brook Kison. ¹⁴ And Debbora said to Barak, Arise, for this is the day, on which the Lord hath delivered Sisara into thy hand; for the Lord will march before thee. So Barak went down from mount Thabor with ten thousand men after him; ¹⁵ And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword, before Barak. And Sisara alighted from his chariot and fled on foot. ¹⁶ And Barak pursued the chariots, and the army, to Arisoth of the nations. And the whole army of Sisara fell by the edge of the sword. There was not even a man left. ¹⁷ Now Sisara had fled, on foot, to the tent of Jael, the wife of Chaber the Kinite; for there was peace between Jabin king of Asor, and the house of Chaber the Kinite. ¹⁸ And Jael went out to meet Sisara, and said to him, Turn in my lord; turn in to me. Be not afraid. So he turned in to her; into the tent; and she covered him with a mantle. ¹⁹ And Sisara said to her Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Whereupon she opened the milk vessel, and gave him drink, and then covered him. ²⁰ And Sisara said to her, Stand, I pray thee, at the door of the tent, and if any man come to thee and ask thee, saying, Is there a man here? thou shalt say, There is not. ²¹ Then Jael, the wife of Chaber, took the pin of the tent, and a mallet in her hand, and went in softly to him, and drove the pin into his temple, and it went through into the ground. And he fainted away, and was involved in darkness. And when he was dead, ²² behold Barak came in pursuit of Sisara. And Jael went out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. So he went in with her, and behold Sisara lay dead with the pin in his temples. ²³ So God, on that day, subdued Jabin king of Chanaan before the children of Israel, ²⁴ and the hand of the Israelites prospered, and prevailed against Jabin king of Chanaan, until they utterly destroyed him.

⁶ In the days of Samegar son of Anath; in the days of Jael; They forsook the high, ways and travelled in bye paths; They travelled in crooked winding roads. ⁷ The mighty men of Israel were faint hearted; They were faint hearted till Debbora arose; Until there arose a mother in Israel. 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. ⁹ My heart was fixed on what were enjoined Israel. Ye among the people who offer thank offerings, Praise ye the Lord. ¹⁰ Ye who have mounted your asses at noon day, Ye who sit in the seat of judgment, Ye who travel the high ways to the publick assemblies, ¹¹ Make proclamation on the road, on account of the voice of them Who shout amidst the drawers of water. There let them rehearse gracious deliverances. Increase, Lord, gracious deliverances in Israel. Then went the people of the Lord down to their cities. ¹² Awake, awake, Debbora! Awake, awake, utter a song. Arise, Barak! And lead thy captivity captive, son of Abineem ¹³ Then went down a remnant to the mighty: The Lord's people went down to him with my valiant men. ¹⁴ Ephraim rooted out them in Amelek; After thee was Benjamin with thy people; With me went down the scouting Machirites, And from Zabulon, they who array with the marshal's staff. ¹⁵ The leaders in Issachar also were with Debbora and Barak. Thus was Barak in the vales. He had sent a courier to the factions of Reuben. The bold hearted are just setting out. ¹⁶ Why did they tarry among their sheepfolds? Was it to hear the bleating of their flocks? For the divisions of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart. ¹⁷ Why abode Galaad beyond the Jordan where he dwelt? And why doth Dan sojourn in ships? Aser seated himself on the sea shore, And chuseth to dwell in his extreme borders. ¹⁸ The people of Zabulon jeoparded their lives to death; And Nephthaleim came to the high places of the field. ¹⁹ Kings had drawn themselves up in array. Then fought the kings of Chanaan at Thanach; At the waters of Mageddo; They had not received the gift of silver. ²⁰ The stars from heaven were drawn up in array; From their orbits they fought against Sisara. ²¹ The torrent of Kison swept them away; The ancient torrent; the torrent Kison. My mighty soul shall trample them down. ²² When the feet of the horse were entangled, with precipitate speed, they who were able, fled. ²³ Curse Meroz, said the messenger of the Lord. Curse ye it bitterly. Cursed be every one who dwelleth therein, Because they came not to the help of the Lord; To the help of the Lord among the mighty. ²⁴ Blessed among women be Jael the wife of Chaber the Kinite: Above women in tents may she be blessed. ²⁵ He asked for water; she gave him milk; From her churning vessel she brought him whey. ²⁶ She stretched forth her left hand to the tent pin; And her right hand to the workman's mallet. And with the mallet she smote Sisara. She drove the pin into his head and smote him; She drove the pin quite through his temples. ²⁷ At her feet he had thrown himself down; He prostrated himself, and fell asleep at her feet. Throwing himself down, he had prostrated himself. As he lay there he fell and finished his course. ²⁸ Through a window the mother of Sisara looked earnestly; Out of that of an archer she cried, Why is his chariot so long a coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariot? ²⁹ Her wise ladies answered her; Nay she returned an answer to herself, ³⁰ Shall they not find him dividing spoil? Will he shew compassion to the head of a man? Sisara shall have spoils of richest dyes; Spoils of richest dyes of needle work. Rich dyes of embroidery are the spoils for his neck! ³¹ So perish all thine enemies, Lord, But let them who love thee be like The going forth of the Sun in his might. So the land had rest forty years.

⁶ Now when the choirs of women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet David, dancing to tympanums, and singing songs of triumph, accompanied with cymbals,

³ and put in my mouth a new song; a hymn to our God. Many will see and be struck with awe, and trust in the Lord.

²⁵ The chiefs went before next to the band of musick, in the midst of damsels playing on timbrels,

¹¹ and he hath given some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some pastors, and teachers,

¹³ and he was clothed with a mantle dipped in blood; and his name is The Word or God.

²⁵ and entangled their chariot wheels and caused them to drag on heavily; whereupon the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

⁸ and in the slaughter they slew the kings of Madian, Evin, and Rokon, and Sur, and Ur, and Robok, the five kings of Madian. They slew also Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword among their slain. ⁹ And having taken for a prey the women of the Madianites, and their furniture, and their cattle, and all their goods, and spoiled their army,

²⁷ And you shall divide the prey between the warriors who went to battle, and the whole congregation.

⁵⁴ Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the testimony, to be a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.

¹⁶ therefore the five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makeda.

⁷ And these are the kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua and the children of Israel slew, on the west side of the Jordan, from Balagad in the valley of Libanus, to mount Chelcha, as you go up to Seir; and which Joshua gave for a possession to the tribes of Israel, according to their respective lots, ⁸ comprehending the Chettites, and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, on the mountains, and in the plains, and in Araba, and in Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in Nageb: ⁹ the king of Jericho, and the king of Gai, which is near Bethel; ¹⁰ the king of Jerusalem; the king of Chebron; ¹¹ the king of Jerimuth; the king of Lachis; ¹² the king of Ailam; the king of Gazer; ¹³ the king of Dabir: the king of Gadir; ¹⁴ the king of Ermath; the king of Ader; ¹⁵ the king of Lebna; the king of Odollam; the king of Elath; the king of Taphut, the king of Opher; the king of Ophek of Arok; the king of Asom; the king of Symoon; the king of Mambroth; the king of Aziph; the king of Kades; the king of Zachak; the king of Maredoth; the king of Jekom of Carmel; the king of Odollam of Phennealdor; the king of Gei of Galilee; the king of Thersa; all these kings were twenty nine.

¹⁹ Kings had drawn themselves up in array. Then fought the kings of Chanaan at Thanach; At the waters of Mageddo; They had not received the gift of silver.

³⁰ Shall they not find him dividing spoil? Will he shew compassion to the head of a man? Sisara shall have spoils of richest dyes; Spoils of richest dyes of needle work. Rich dyes of embroidery are the spoils for his neck!

²⁴ who then will hearken to your words? For these are not less entitled to them than we are. For as is the share of him who goeth down to the battle, so shall be the share of him who guardeth the baggage. They shall all share alike.

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,

¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice to all the birds which fly in mid-heaven saying, Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God; ¹⁸ that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of generals, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them mounted on them and the flesh of all both freemen and slaves, both small and great. ¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to come to a battle with him who was mounted on the horse and with his army. 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;

¹⁴ Issachar desired earnestly what was good, Halting between two choices.

¹⁴ and made their lives bitter with hard labour in working clay and making bricks and with all the toils of the field, according to the several kinds of service to which they forcibly subjected them.

¹⁶ Why did they tarry among their sheepfolds? Was it to hear the bleating of their flocks? For the divisions of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.

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⁶ he removed his back from burdens. His hands served at the basket.

³⁷ and brought out his people with silver and gold, and there was not a feeble person among their tribes.

⁴ for the Lord taketh pleasure in his people; and with salvation he will exalt the meek.

⁶ I passed by thee and saw thee polluted with thy blood and said to thee, From thy blood there is life. ⁷ Be multiplied like the grass of the field; I have betrothed thee. So thou didst increase and grow great and enter the class of chief cities. Thy breasts were fashioned and thy locks flowing. But thou wast naked and exposed to shame. ⁸ Then I passed by thee and beheld thee and lo! thou wast of a marriageable age. So I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and sware to thee and entered into covenant with thee, saith the Lord. ⁹ And when thou becamest mine I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from thee and anointed thee with oil; ¹⁰ And I clothed thee with embroidery and shod thee with purple sandals and girded thee with a cotton zone and threw around thee a mantle of tissue. ¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets round thy wrists and a chain round thy neck, ¹² and gave thee a jewel for thy nose and ear-rings for thine ears, and a crown of exquisite beauty for thy head. ¹³ So thou wast adorned with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of cotton, tissue and embroidery; and thy food was fine flour, oil and honey. And thou becamest exceeding beautiful, ¹⁴ and thy fame spread among the nations for thy beauty. Because it was perfect by reason of the comeliness and the elegance with which I adorned thee, saith the Lord;

¹⁶ and he was fain to fill his belly with the carob pods which the swine were eating, as nobody gave him any thing.

²² But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet.

⁹ Do you not know that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the voluptuous, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor such as indulge inordinate desires, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ Now such some of you were; but, you have washed yourselves; but you are hallowed, but you are acquitted by the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God.

² You know that you were Gentiles carried away to dumb idols just as you were led.

¹ And with respect to you, when you were dead in those trespasses, and those sins, ² in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world; according to the prince of the power of the air, that spirit which is now working powerfully in the children of disobedience; ³ among whom when we also were all formerly leading our lives in the desires of our flesh, executing the dictates of the flesh, and the imaginations, and were naturally children of wrath even as the rest;

²⁶ that having purified it with the bath of the water, he might hallow it; indeed ²⁷ that he might present it to himself as the glorious congregation, having neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any defect whatever; but that it may be holy and without blemish.

³ For we, even we ourselves were formerly foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy, objects of hatred, hating one another;

⁵ and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who hath loved us, and washed us from our sins with his blood, ⁶ and made us kings and priests to God, even his father to him be the glory and dominion for the ages of the ages. Amen.

³ And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up these Chananites into their hands, and they anathematised them and their cities, and called the name of that place Anathema.

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.

¹⁰ the Lord struck them with a panic, on account of the children of Israel, and the Lord routed them, with a great slaughter, at Gabaon. And they pursued them by the way of the ascent of Oronin, and smote them even to Azeka, and to Makeda. ¹¹ And as they were fleeing from before Israel, at the descent of Oronin, the Lord poured a storm of hail stones from heaven upon them, all the way to Azeka; so that there were more who died by the hail stones, than the children of Israel slew with the sword in battle. ¹² Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, on the day God delivered up the Amorite into the hand of Israel. When he had discomfited them at Gabaon, and they were routed before the children of Israel, Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Ailon. ¹³ So the sun stood still, and the moon in its station; until God executed vengeance on their enemies, the sun stood in the midst of heaven; it advanced not to the setting, to the end of a day. ¹⁴ So that there never was such a day before, nor after it such an instance of God's hearkening to man. ¹⁵ Because the Lord fought conjointly with Israel, ¹⁶ therefore the five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makeda. ¹⁷ And when it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hidden in the cave at Makeda, ¹⁸ Joshua said, Roll stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men to keep watch over them; ¹⁹ but as for you, halt not; pursue your enemies, and attack their rear, and suffer them not to enter their cities; for the Lord our God hath delivered them into our hands. ²⁰ And when Joshua, and all Israel, had made an end of slaughtering them till they were utterly routed, and those who had escaped had got into fortified cities, ²¹ all the people returned safe to Joshua to Makeda, and there was not a murmur on the tongue of any one among the children of Israel. ²² Then Joshua said, Open the cave, and bring out the five kings out of the cave. ²³ So they brought the five kings out of the cave; the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam. ²⁴ And when they had brought them out to Joshua, he called together ail Israel, namely the chief commanders of the army who went out with him, and said to them, Go near, and put your feet on the necks of those men. And when they had gone near, and put their feet on their necks, ²⁵ Joshua said to them, Fear them not, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage; for thus will the Lord do to all your enemies, against whom you fight. ²⁶ So Joshua slew them, and hanged them on five gibbets, and they hung on the gibbets till evening. ²⁷ And at the setting of the sun Joshua gave orders, and they took them down from the gibbets, and threw them into the cave, and rolled stones on the cave, which still remain. ²⁸ Now on that day they took Makeda, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every thing therein which breathed. There was not one left who escaped or fled. And when they had done to the king of Makeda as they did to the king of Jericho, ²⁹ Joshua, and all Israel with him, marched from Makeda to Lebna and besieged it; ³⁰ and the Lord delivered it into the hands of Israel, and they took it and the king thereof, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every thing in it which had breath. There was not one left in it who escaped, or fled. And when they had done to the king thereof as they did to the king of Jericho, ³¹ Joshua, and all Israel with him, marched from Lebna to Lachis, and encamped about it, and besieged it. ³² And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel; and they took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed it as they had done Lebna. ³³ At that time Elam, king of Gazer, having come up to assist Lachis, Joshua smote him with the edge of the sword, till there was none of them left who escaped, or fled. ³⁴ Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, went from Lachis to Odollam, and encamped about it, and besieged it. ³⁵ And the Lord delivered it into the hand of Israel, and they took it that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword. ³⁶ And when they had slain every living soul therein, as they had done at Lachis, ³⁷ Joshua, and all Israel with him, went to Chebron, and encamped about it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every living soul therein. Not one escaped. As they had done to Odollam, they utterly destroyed it, and all that were in it. ³⁸ Then Joshua, and all Israel, wheeled round to Dabir, and encamped about it, and took it, and the king thereof, and the villages thereof. And he smote it with the edge of the sword. ³⁹ And they utterly destroyed it, and every soul in it. They did not leave one alive. As they had done to Chebron, and its king, so they did to Dabir, and its king. ⁴⁰ Thus did Joshua smite all the hilly country, and Nageb, and the plain, and Asedoth, and the kings thereof. They did not leave one of them alive. They utterly destroyed every one who breathed the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded. ⁴¹ From Kades-barne to Gaza, Joshua smote at one time all the land of Gosom, quite to Gabaon, all their kings, and their land, for the Lord the God of Israel fought for Israel.

¹ Now these are the kings of the land, whom the Israelites slew, and whose land they possessed, on the east side of the Jordan, from the vale of Arnon to mount Aermon, comprehending all the land of Araba to the east; ² Seon, king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon; whose dominion extended from Arnon which is in the vale, along part of the vale, and the half of Galaad to Jabok, the boundary of the Ammonites, ³ comprehending Araba, to the east side of the sea of Cheneroth, and to the sea of Araba, the east side of the salt sea, the way in front of Aseimoth, that leading from Thaiman, at the foot of Asedoth Phasga: ⁴ and Og, king of Basan, who was a remnant of the giants, and who dwelt at Astaroth, and Edrain, ⁵ and whose dominion extended from mount Aermon, and from Sekchai, over all the land of Basan, to the borders of Gergesi, and over Machi, and the half of Galaad, to the borders of Seon king of Esebon. ⁶ These, Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel, smote; and Moses gave this land for a possession to Reuben, and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses.

⁷ though the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who had lived long with Joshua, and who knew all the great works which the Lord had done for Israel;

⁴⁸ he went up to mount Selmon, with all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut a bough of a tree, and took it and put it on his shoulder, and said to the people who were with him, Haste and do as I; what you have seen me do.

⁷ Sprinkle me with hyssop and I shall be purified; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

¹⁸ then come: [let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord] and though your sins be as a purple stain; I will make you white as snow; though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make you white as wool.

³ that thou mightest follow the Holy Israel, saith the Lord. The Holy Israel is to the Lord the chief of his productions, all that devour him shall be guilty of trespass: evils shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

¹⁴ And the armies in heaven clad in cotton robes white and clean followed him on white horses. ¹⁵ And out of his mouth issueth a sharp sword that with it he may smite the nations. And he himself tendeth them with an iron crook; and he himself treadeth the press of the venemous and raging wine of God Almighty. ¹⁶ And he hath on his mantle and on his thigh this name written King Of Kings And Lord Of Lords. ¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice to all the birds which fly in mid-heaven saying, Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God; ¹⁸ that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of generals, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them mounted on them and the flesh of all both freemen and slaves, both small and great. ¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to come to a battle with him who was mounted on the horse and with his army. 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; ²¹ and the rest were slain with the sword of him who was mounted on the horse; with that which issueth out of his mouth; and all the birds were glutted with their flesh.

¹⁰ including all the cities of Misor, and all Galaad, and all Basan, as far as Elcha, and Adraim, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan.

⁶ But as for me, by him I am appointed king on Sion his holy mountain.

⁶⁸ but made choice of the tribe of Juda; of this mount Sion which he loved, ⁶⁹ and built his sanctuary like that of unicorns; in this land he founded it for this age,

¹ A Psalm of an Ode for the sons of Kore. On the holy mountains are his foundations! ² The Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

² Because in the last days, the mount of the Lord will be conspicuous; and the house of God will be on the top of mountains; and exalted above the hills: therefore all the nations will come to it. ³ Many nations indeed, will go saying, "Come, let us go up to the mount of the Lord; and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his way, and we will walk therein." For from Sion shall go forth a law; and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

¹⁴ [p] Feed thou thy people with thy crook; the flock of thy heritage; them who are by themselves in a forest in the midst of yonder Carmel. [J] They shall feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

⁵ but you shall seek out and come to the place, which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of your cities, to put his name there, and to be invoked;

¹¹ To that place you shall bring all that I this day command you, your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tenths, and the oblations of your hands, and the choice of all your gifts which you may vow to the Lord your God;

³ and said to him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication which thou hast made before me, and have done for thee according to all thy prayer. I have hallowed this house which thou hast built to put my name there for ever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there continually.

⁴ The mountains skipped like rams: the hills, like lambs of the flock.

⁶ You, mountains, that you skipped like rams? And you, hills, like lambs of the flock?

¹³ For the Lord hath chosen Sion, and made choice of it for his habitation. ¹⁴ This shall be my rest forever. Here I will dwell, for I have chosen it.

² Because in the last days, the mount of the Lord will be conspicuous; and the house of God will be on the top of mountains; and exalted above the hills: therefore all the nations will come to it.

²² but you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels ²³ to the general assembly and congregation of first born, enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

² And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God with men! and he will dwell with them; and they will be his people; and God himself will be with them their God.

⁵ And he said, Approach not hither. Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

²² And let the priests who come near to the Lord God be purified, lest peradventure the Lord withdraw from them. ²³ And Moses said to God, The people cannot advance to mount Sina; for thou hast testified to us saying, Set apart the mount and hallow it.

² and he said, The Lord came from Sina And shined upon us out of Seir; He hasted from mount Paran, With myriads from Kades; His angels with him on his right.

¹¹ And as they proceeded on conversing as they went, behold a chariot of fire, with horses of fire, made a separation between them; and Elias was carried up with a whirlwind as it were into heaven.

¹⁶ And Elisha said, Fear not; for there are more with us than with them. ¹⁷ Then Elisha prayed and said, Lord I beseech thee, open his eyes that he may see. Accordingly the Lord opened his eyes and he looked and lo! the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

¹⁵ And I beheld and lo! on the ground, close to the four living beings a wheel! one to every of the four. ¹⁶ And the appearance of the wheels was like the appearance of a beryl. And the four had one and the same likeness. And their workmanship was as if there was a wheel within a wheel. ¹⁷ They ran on their four sections and shifted not their position when they ran, ¹⁸ nor did their felloes when they were elevated. And I beheld, and their felloes were full of eyes, all around the four. ¹⁹ And when the living beings moved on, the wheels moved on close by them. And when the living beings mounted up from the earth, the wheels mounted up. ²⁰ Wherever the cloud was, there was the wind for their movement; the wheels moved on and were carried aloft with them. Because there was a breath of life in the wheels, when the living beings moved on, the wheels moved on: ²¹ when those stood still, these stood still: and when those mounted up from the earth, these mounted up with them, because there was a breath of life in the wheels. ²² And over the head of the living beings, there was a likeness resembling a firmament, like the appearance of chrystal over their wings, which were expanded above them. ²³ And their wings which were expanded below the firmament, flapped one against another, while every one had a pair that covered their bodies. ²⁴ And when they moved on I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of much water: but when they stopped, their wings were still. ²⁵ And lo! a voice from above the firmament! ²⁶ this being over their heads, there was an appearance like that of a sapphire stone and a resemblance of a throne upon it. And upon the resemblance of the throne a resemblance like the appearance of a man above. ²⁷ And I saw a resemblance of amber from the appearance of the loins and upwards; and from the appearance of the loins and downwards, I saw an appearance of fire: and the splendor thereof round about ²⁸ was like the bow which is in the clouds in a showery day. Such was the state of the splendor round about.

¹⁰ A river of fire rolled before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him and myriads of myriads waited on him. The court sat and books were opened.

⁸ Wast thou, Lord, angry with the rivers? Or was thy wrath against the rivers? Or thine indignation against a sea, that thou shouldst mount thy horses? Thy riding is indeed salvation.

⁵³ Or dost thou think that I cannot now address ray father, who can send to my assistance, more than twelve legions of angels?

¹¹ And I looked and heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the animate beings and the elders and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing."

¹⁶ And the number of the armies of the cavalry was two myriads of myriads: and I heard the number of them;

¹² Awake, awake, Debbora! Awake, awake, utter a song. Arise, Barak! And lead thy captivity captive, son of Abineem

¹⁸ Will God indeed dwell with man on the earth! If the heaven, and the heaven of heaven, will not contain thee, what then is this house which I have built?

⁷ And when the congregation of the tribes encompass thee; ascend thou on high above them:

³ Who shall ascend to the hill of God, and who shall stand in his holy place?

⁷ Open wide your gates, ye chiefs! and be opened wide, ye everlasting doors; that the glorious king may enter. ⁸ Who is the glorious king? The Lord strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle. ⁹ Open wide your gates, ye chiefs; and be opened wide ye everlasting doors; that the glorious king may enter. ¹⁰ Who is this glorious king? The Lord of Hosts. He is the king of glory.

⁵ God ascended at the triumphant shout; the Lord, at the trumpet's sounding.

⁶⁰ and he abandoned the tabernacle of Selom; the tent in which he had dwelt among men;

¹ A Psalm. By David. The Lord said to my Lord; sit at my right hand; till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

²² "While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable to censures. ²³ Behold I will pour forth to you the dictate of my spirit: and teach you this word of mine;

⁷ let the wicked man forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his counsels, and turn to the Lord and he shall find mercy; for he will abundantly pardon your sins.

³⁵ The circumference eighteen thousand. And the name of the city from the day it is built shall be the name it now hath.

¹³ Go then and learn what this meaneth, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice;" for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.

⁹ Now Jesus, having risen very early in the morning of the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons.

⁴⁷ and that for his name reformation and remission of sins should be proclaimed to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

⁴⁹ And behold I will send upon you what my father promised. And as for you, reside ye in the city of Jerusalem until you are indued with power from on high.

⁵¹ and while he was blessing them, he was parted from them and carried up into heaven;

¹⁶ and I will ask the Father and he will give you another monitor, that he may continue with you forever, ¹⁷ even the spirit of truth which the world cannot receive because it neither seeth him nor knoweth him. But you know him, because he abideth with you and will be in you.

²³ Jesus in reply, said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him; and we will come to him and make an abode with him.

⁷ But, I tell you this truth, it is to your advantage that I go away: for if I do not go, the monitor will not come to you; but when I go I will send him to you.

¹³ But when he the spirit of truth, is come, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak from himself, but will speak whatsoever he shall have heard, and will explain to you the train of events. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will receive of mine, and communicate to you. ¹⁵ All that the Father hath is mine; therefore I said, He will receive of mine, and communicate to you.

² till the day when he was taken up, after giving a charge by the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, ³ and to whom he had, after his suffering, shewn himself to be alive, by many proofs, during forty days appearing to them, and speaking of what concerned the kingdom of God. ⁴ Then assembling them together, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard from me. ⁵ For John indeed baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in a Holy Spirit not many days hence. ⁶ When they therefore were come together they asked him, saying, Lord, art thou at this time about to restore the kingdom to Israel? 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. ⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth. ⁹ And having said this, while they were beholding [him] he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

⁴ And they were all filled with a holy spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the spirit gave them to make solemn addresses.

²³ Him, being surrendered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken; and by the hands of wicked men have crucified and slain.

³³ Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he hath poured out this which you now see and hear. ³⁴ For David did not ascend into the heavens; yet he saith, "The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand, ³⁵ until I make thine enemies thy footstool." ³⁶ Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified, Lord and Christ. ³⁷ Upon hearing this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brethren, What shall we do? ³⁸ Thereupon Peter said to them, Repent and let every one of you be baptized to the remission of sins for the name of Jesus Christ, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all them afar off, whomsoever the Lord our God may invite." ⁴⁰ And with many other words he obtested and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this depraved generation." ⁴¹ Then they who gladly received his word were baptized, and about three thousand souls were that day added;

¹⁷ So Ananias went and entered the house, and having laid his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, The Lord, even Jesus who appeared to thee on the road as thou camest, hath sent me that thou mayst recover sight and be filled with a holy spirit.

⁸ but God confirmeth his love for us, because while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

⁴⁵ Thus also it is written, "The first man Adam was made a living soul." The latter Adam is a quickening spirit. ⁴⁶ The spiritual was not first, but the animal; then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man from the earth was earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God hath said, "Because I will dwell among them and walk about among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people;

⁸ Therefore it is said, "Having ascended on high, he hath led captivity captive, and "he hath given gifts to men." ⁹ Now this expression, "He ascended" what doth it infer, but that he had first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is the same who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all;

¹⁸ and he is the head of the body, namely of the congregation. He who is the beginning is a first born from the dead that in all things he might be pre-eminent. ¹⁹ Because all the plenitude was pleased to dwell in him, and by him to reconcile all to himself,

³ in which are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

⁹ Because all the plenitude of the deity resideth substantially in him, 10 therefore you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power;

¹³ who was before a reviler, and a persecutor, and an outrageous offender: but I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly, in unbelief. ¹⁴ And this favour of our Lord superabounded with faith and love which is by Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ This is a faithful word and worthy of all acceptation, That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am a chief;

³ For we, even we ourselves were formerly foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy, objects of hatred, hating one another; ⁴ but when the kindness and love of God our saviour for man was brightly displayed, ⁵ not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy; he saved us by a bath of regeneration, and a renewal of a holy spirit, ⁶ which he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our saviour, ⁷ in order that we, being pardoned by his favour, might become expectant heirs of everlasting life.

³ who being an effulgence of the glory, and an impress of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having by himself made a purification of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

¹⁴ Having therefore a great chief priest who hath passed through the heavens, namely Jesus the son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not a chief priest incapable of sympathizing in our infirmities; but one who hath been tried in all respects like ourselves, but without sin.

²⁰ whither a forerunner hath entered for us, namely Jesus, made a chief priest forever, after the order of Melchisedek.

¹ Now the sum of what I have said is this, Such a chief priest we have who hath taken a seat at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens:

²² who, having gone to heaven, is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

²⁰ With respect to the hidden meaning of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks; the seven stars are the angels of the seven congregations and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven congregations.

³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God with men! and he will dwell with them; and they will be his people; and God himself will be with them their God.

⁷ Thou art my refuge from affliction, which surroundeth me; my jubilee to redeem me from them who encompass me.

²² Cast thy care on the Lord, and he will sustain thee. He will never suffer the righteous to be shaken.

⁵ Thou art wonderful for righteousness: hear us O God, our Saviour. Thou art the hope of all the ends of the earth: and of them at sea far off.

¹⁷ Let his name be blessed for ever! His name shall endure longer than the sun: and by him all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed. All the nations shall hail him happy. ¹⁸ Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel; who alone doth wonderful things. ¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever and ever: and let all the earth be filled with his glory. Amen. Amen.

¹ By David. Bless the Lord, my soul; and all within me, his holy name. ² Bless the Lord, my soul; and forget not all the praises of him; ³ who pardoneth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; ⁴ who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and kindness; ⁵ who satisfieth thy desire with good things that thy youth may be renewed like an eagle's. ⁶ It is the Lord, who exerciseth mercy and judgment for all who were oppressed. ⁷ He made known his ways to Moses; his pleasure to the children of Israel. ⁸ He is the Lord gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abundant in kindness; ⁹ he will not be angry to utter ruin, nor continue his wrath forever. ¹⁰ He hath not dealt with us according to our sins; nor retributed to us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For high as the heaven is from the earth; the Lord hath enlarged his mercy for them who fear him. ¹² Far as the east is distant from the west, he hath removed from us our transgressions. ¹³ As a father pitieth his children; the Lord hath pitied them who fear him, ¹⁴ because he knew our formation. O remember that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass; like a flower of the field, so he may bloom. ¹⁶ Because a blast of wind passed over it, it is gone. It shall no more know its place. 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. ¹⁹ The Lord hath established his throne in heaven, and his dominion is exercised over all. ²⁰ Bless the Lord, all ye his angels; ye mighty powers, who execute his word, on hearing the voice of his commands. ²¹ Bless the Lord, all ye his armies: ye ministers of his, who perform his will. ²² Bless the Lord all ye his works, in every place of his dominion. O my soul, bless thou the Lord.

¹⁷ When none among these were yet in being; for me these friends of thine, God, were highly prized: their principalities were made very strong.

⁴ I am the self existent, even till you grow old, I am, I sustain you: I made you and I will bear with you; I will lift you up and I will save you.

²³ New every morning is thine abundant faithfulness.

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing; with the heavenly things in Christ;

³⁹ See! See! that I am the Self existent, And that there is no Clod besides me; I kill, and I can cause to live, I can smite and I can heal, And none can rescue out of my hand:

⁶ The Lord killeth, and giveth life; He bringeth down to the grave, and raiseth up.

¹³ because thou hast delivered my soul from death; and my feet from falling: that I may worship acceptably before God; in the light of the living.

¹⁷ I shall not die: but live and proclaim the works of the Lord. ¹⁸ With correction, the Lord corrected me: but did not deliver me up to death.

²³ Guard thy heart with all diligence; for out of these are the issues of life.

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;

¹⁷ The Lord hath saved Israel with an everlasting salvation. They shall not be put to shame nor confounded any more forever. ¹⁸ Thus saith the Lord who made the heaven, the same God who displayed the earth to view, and who, having made it, parcelled it out: he did not make it to be waste, but formed it to be inhabited: I ¹⁹ am the Lord and there is none else. I have not spoken in secret nor in an obscure part of the earth. I have not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye a vain thing. I am THE I AM, the Lord, who speak righteousness and proclaim truth. ²⁰ Assemble yourselves together and come; consult together ye who escape from among the nations. They are devoid of knowledge, who carry the wood; their carved image; and who pray to gods which cannot save them. ²¹ If they will proclaim, let them draw near and know at once, who hath published these things from the beginning: then let them be announced to you. I am God and there is no other besides me; a just God and a saviour be sides me there is none. ²² Turn to me and ye shall be saved, ye from the farthest part of the earth, I am God and there is none else.

⁷ But on the children of Juda I will have compassion and I will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battle nor by horses nor by horsemen."

²² You worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know: for salvation is of the Jews.

²¹ For as the Father raiseth the dead and restoreth to life, so the Son restoreth to life, whom he pleaseth.

²³ that all may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son, doth not honour the Father, who sent him.

²⁸ Wonder not at this; for a time is coming when all that are in the graves shall hearken to his voice, ²⁹ and come forth; they who have done good, to a resurrection of life, and they who have done evil, to a resurrection of condemnation.

²⁵ Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he who believeth in me, though he may die, shall live. ²⁶ And none who liveth and believeth in me shall ever die. Believest thou this?

¹⁴ As the children therefore were partakers of flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same in order that he might, by his death, put a stop to the operation of him who hath the power of death, that is the devil; ¹⁵ and deliver from bondage them who were all their lives liable to the fear of death.

¹⁸ even he who liveth. Though I was dead yet behold I am alive, and live for the ages of the ages, Amen. And I have the keys of the mansion of the dead, and of death.

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the bottomless gulf and a great chain in his hand;

¹² will, unless you turn back, sharpen his sword. He hath bent his bow and made it ready:

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.

¹⁸ In this holy place having ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive; and received gifts in the manner of man in token [for some were incredulous] of thy dwelling there.

⁶ He will judge among the nations: he will multiply slaughters: he will crush the heads of many on the earth.

²⁴ seeing I have called and you have not answered: and though I continued my speech, you did not attend: ²⁵ but set at naught my counsels and disregarded my reproofs: ²⁶ therefore I will laugh at your calamity; and mock when your destruction cometh. ²⁷ Yes, when tumult shall suddenly come upon you; and destruction like a whirlwind shall be at hand; even when tribulation and siege approach you; or when destruction is advancing upon you. ²⁸ For when you call upon me I will not listen to you. The wicked may seek me, but they shall not find me. ²⁹ For they hated wisdom and did not chuse the word of the Lord: ³⁰ nor would they attend to my counsels, but contemned my reproofs: ³¹ Let them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled with their own iniquity. ³² For, because they wronged infants they shall be slain: and a rigorous inquest shall destroy the wicked. ³³ But he who hearkeneth to me shall dwell with hope; and rest secure from all evil."

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. ²⁹ Yet the house of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not straight. Is not my way straight, house of Israel? Is it not your way which is not straight? ³⁰ I will judge you, saith the Lord, house of Israel, every one according to his way. Be converted and turn from all your acts of wickedness, and they shall not bring upon you the punishment of iniquity.

⁴ Again he sent to them another servant; and him they attacked with stones, and wounded on the head, and sent back with disgrace.

⁵ I tell you, No; but unless you reform, you shall all perish in like manner.

¹ For this cause we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest we, through negligence, let them slip. ² For if the word spoken by messengers was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received as its reward a correspondent requital, ³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which was first published by the Lord, and confirmed for us by them who heard him,

²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven,

¹⁴ Nevertheless I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication. ¹⁵ In like manner thou hast them who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which I hate. ¹⁶ Reform. If thou dost not, I am coming to thee quickly, and I will fight against; them with the sword of my mouth.

²² And the Israelites went into the midst of the sea as on dry ground. And the water thereof was a wall on the right and a wall on the left.

²⁹ But the Israelites marched on dry ground in the midst of the sea, and the water was a wall to them on their right and on their left.

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

¹¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will proceed to shew his hand to provoke to jealousy the remnant of his people; that residue which is left from the Assyrians and from Egypt and from Babylonia, and from Ethiopia and the Elamites, and from the risings of the sun and Arabia. ¹² And he will erect a standard for the nations, and gather together the outcasts of Israel, and assemble the dispersed of Juda from the four quarters of the earth. ¹³ And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away; and the enemies of Juda shall be destroyed: Ephraim shall not envy Juda; nor shall Juda vex Ephraim: ¹⁴ And they shall be wafted in the ships of foreign tribes; and they shall spoil both the sea and them of the east and Idumea; and upon Moab they shall first lay their hands; but the sons of Ammon shall first obey. ¹⁵ And the Lord will dry up the sea of Egypt, and lay his hand on the river with a vehement wind; and smite the seven channels, so that they may be crossed dry shod. ¹⁶ And there shall be a passage for my people left in Egypt. It shall be for Israel as on the day when they came up out of the land of Egypt.

²² Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will lift up my hand to the nations, and I will erect my standard for the isles. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosoms and carry thy daughters on their shoulders:

¹⁰ Art thou not as the generation of old, which dried up the sea; the swelling water of the deep? Which made the depths of the sea a road for the delivered and redeemed to pass? ¹¹ For under the guidance of the Lord they shall be brought back, and shall come to Sion with joy and everlasting gladness; for praise shall crown their head and joy shall overtake them. Grief and sorrow and sighing are fled.

⁵ Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous shoot, who shall reign king and understand and execute judgment and justice on the earth. ⁶ In his days Juda shall be saved and Israel shall dwell securely. And the name which the Lord will give him by the prophets shall be Josedek [Lord of righteousness.] ⁷ [Omitted]see Chapter 29 beginning. ⁸ [Omitted]

²⁴ When I take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and bring you into your own land;

¹⁰ [Now the number of the children of Israel was like the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor counted.] "But it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, " You are not my people, " they shall be called children of the Living God, ¹¹ and the children of Juda and the children of Israel shall be gathered together and shall appoint for themselves one head and come up out of the land. Because great will be the day of Jezrael;

² Though they hide themselves in the mansion of the dead, thence my hand will drag them up. And though they climb up to heaven, thence I will bring them down. ³ Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will there search them out and take them. And should they go down from my sight into the depths of the sea, I will there give orders to the dragon and he will bite them.

¹⁹ And thou shalt speak to him, and say, Thus saith the Lord, As thou hast murdered and taken possession, therefore thus saith the Lord, In every place where the swine and dogs have licked the blood of Nabuthi, there shall the dogs lick thy blood, and harlots shall bathe themselves in thy blood.

³⁸ and washed off the blood at the fountain of Samaria, and the swine and the dogs licked the blood, and the prostitutes bathed themselves in the blood, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke.

³³ and he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses; for they trampled upon her. ³⁴ And when he had gone in and had eaten and drunk he said, Look, I pray you, for that cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter. ³⁵ But when they went out to bury her and found nothing of her but only the scull and the feet and the palms of the hands, ³⁶ they returned and told him, whereupon he said, This is the word of the Lord which he spoke by the ministry of Elias the Thesbite, In the field of Jezrael the dogs shall devour the flesh of Jezabel; ³⁷ and the carcase of Jezabel shall be like dung on the ground in the field of Jezrael, that they may not say, Here lieth Jezabel.

¹ [c] Who is this who is coming from Edom? What redness of mantles from Bosor! He so magnificent in apparel? He marcheth with majesty! [M] I proclaim righteousness and the judgment of salvation. ² [c] Why are thy garments red and thy clothing, as from a trodden wine vat? ³ [M] I am full of a country trodden down; and of the nations there is not a man with me. I have trodden them down in my wrath, and crumbled them like dust and shed their blood on the earth. ⁴ For the day of retribution came upon them and the year of redemption is at hand. ⁵ When I looked and there was no helper and observed that none upheld; then mine own arm delivered them. Mine indignation indeed was roused, ⁶ and I trampled them down in mine anger and shed their blood on the earth.

¹² And when they told king David saying, The Lord bath blessed two house of Abeddara, and all belonging to him, on account of the ark of God, David went and brought up the ark of the Lord out of the house of Abeddara, into the city of David, with rejoicing. ¹³ Now there were with him seven choirs carrying the ark, and for a sacrifice a young bull and lambs. ¹⁴ And David played on well tuned instruments of music before the Lord; and David having put on an unusual robe, ¹⁵ he, and all the house of Israel, brought up the ark of the Lord, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. ¹⁶ And as the ark was entering the city of David, Melchol the daughter of Saul looked out at a window, and saw king David dancing, and playing before the Lord, and despised him in her heart. ¹⁷ So they brought the ark of the Lord, and when they had set it in its place, in the middle of the tabernacle, which David had erected for it, David offered whole burnt offerings before the Lord, and peace offerings.

⁸ while David and all Israel were playing with all their might before God, on psalteries and kinyras and nablas and tympanums and cymbals and trumpets.

¹⁶ Now David had said to the chiefs of the Levites, Appoint your brethren, such as play on musical instruments, on nablas and kinyras, and cymbals, that they may make a loud sound with the voice of joy. ¹⁷ And the Levites had appointed Aiman son of Joel and of his brethren, Asaph son of Barachia, and of the sons of Merari his brethren, Aithan the son of Kisias ¹⁸ and with them their brethren of the second rank, Zacharias and Oziel, and Semiramoth and Jeiel, and Elioel and Eliab, and Banaia and Maasaia, and Matthathia and Eliphena, and Makellia and Abdedom, and Jeiel and Ozias, the keepers of the gates; ¹⁹ and the musicians Aiman, Asaph and Aithan, sung and played on brass cymbals in the highest key; ²⁰ and Zacharias and Oziel, Semiramoth, Jeiel; Oni, Eliab, Maasias, Banias, on nablas in alaimoth; ²¹ and Mattathias and Eliphalu, and Makenia and Abdedom, and Jeiel and Ozias, on kinyras in Amasenith to give a strong sound. ²² And Chononias, a chief of the Levites, was master of the odes, for he was skilled therein. ²³ And Barachia and Elkana were door keepers of the ark. ²⁴ And Somnia and Josaphat, and Nathaniel and Amasai, and Zacharia and Banaia, and Eliezer the priests, sounded the trumpets before the ark of God. And Abdedom and Jeia were door keepers of the ark of God.

⁵ God ascended at the triumphant shout; the Lord, at the trumpet's sounding. ⁶ O sing praises to our God; sing praises. Sing praises to our king; sing praises. ⁷ Since God is king of the whole earth; sing praises with understanding.

² Thus have I appeared to thee in the sanctuary; that I might see thy power and thy glory.

³⁴ And when the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel, and Jephthae came to Massepha, to his house, behold his daughter came out to meet him, with timbrels and choirs. Now she was his only child. Besides her, he had neither son nor daughter.

⁷ How delighted must all be; whose habitation is in thee!

¹² youths and virgins! elders with them of younger years! ¹³ let them praise the name of the Lord; for his name alone is exalted. To him belongeth thanksgiving, on earth and in heaven.

³ praise him with the sounding trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and kithara: ⁴ praise him with the tympanum and chorus: praise him with stringed instruments and organs; ⁵ praise him with soft sounding cymbals: praise him with the cymbals of triumph:

⁴ For I will rebuild thee, and thou shalt be rebuilt. virgin of Israel, again thou shalt take thy timbrel, and go forth with a congregation of rejoicers.

¹³ Then shall virgins rejoice in the assembly of youths; the elders also shall be filled with joy; for I will turn their mourning into joy and make them glad.

² And I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of musicians playing on their kitharas ³ and singing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four animate beings, and the elders; and no one could learn the song, but the hundred and forty four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth.

² And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire, and them who were victorious over the beast and over its image and over the number of its name, standing at the glassy sea having the musical instruments of God; ³ and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord, God, Almighty; Just and true are thy ways O thou king of the saints;

²⁸ And Israel shall dwell securely alone, In the land of Jacob, fed with corn and wine: And the heaven shall drop with dew for thee.

⁷ On that day David gave orders for beginning the praises of the Lord by the ministry of Asaph and his brethren, with this Ode: ⁸ O give thanks to the Lord, Invoke him by his name; Among peoples make known his designs. ⁹ Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Proclaim to all the wonders which the Lord hath done. ¹⁰ Sing praises to his holy name. Let the heart which seeketh his favour be triad. ¹¹ Seek the Lord and persevere; Seek his face continually. ¹² Remember the wonders which he hath done; The miracles and judgments of his mouth. ¹³ The seed of Israel are his servants; The sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. ¹⁴ He is the Lord our God; In all this land are his judgments. ¹⁵ Let us ever remember his covenant; His word which he enjoined for a thousand generations. ¹⁶ The covenant which he made with Abraham; And the oath which he sware to Isaak, ¹⁷ This he confirmed for a law to Jacob; To Israel as an everlasting covenant, ¹⁸ Saying, To thee I will give the land of Chanaan, To be the portion of your inheritance. ¹⁹ When they were very few in number; Of little account, and sojourned therein; ²⁰ When they were passing from nation to nation; And from one kingdom to another people; ²¹ He suffered no man to oppress them; He rebuked kings for their sake ²² Touch not these my anointed ones, And to these my prophets do no harm. ²³ Sing to the Lord, all ye of this land, From day to day proclaim his salvation. ²⁴ Declare his glory among the nations; Among all peoples his marvellous works; ²⁵ That the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; Above all the gods he is awful ²⁶ That all the gods of the nations are idols; But our God hath made the heavens. ²⁷ Glory and honour are before him; Majesty and gladness in his abode. ²⁸ Ascribe to the Lord, ye families of nations, Ascribe to the Lord glory and majesty ²⁹ Ascribe to the Lord, glory to his name. Take gifts and bring them before him, And worship the Lord in his holy courts. ³⁰ Let all the earth be awed at his presence, Let the earth be renovated and not dismayed. ³¹ Let heaven rejoice, and the earth exult with joy, Let them say among the nations, The Lord is king. ³² Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof; And the trees of the field and all therein; ³³ Let the trees of the forest also rejoice at the presence of the Lord; Because he is come to judge the earth. ³⁴ praise the Lord; for it is good, For to everlasting his mercy endureth. ³⁵ And say, Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us and deliver us from our enemies; That we may praise thy holy name, And in thy praises make our boast. ³⁶ Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting, And let all the people say, Amen.

¹² My foot hath been stedfast in rectitude: in assemblies, I will bless thee, O Lord.

³² Let them extol him in the congregation of the people: and praise him in the assembly of Elders.

¹ An Alleluia. I Will praise thee, Lord, with my whole heart; in the counsel of the upright and the congregation.

¹⁹ O house of Israel, bless ye the Lord: bless the Lord ye of the house of Aaron. ²⁰ O house of Levi, bless ye the Lord; bless him, ye who fear the Lord. ²¹ Blessed be the Lord in Sion; he who inhabiteth Jerusalem.

¹⁶ Let not the waters from thy fountain over flow for thee; but let thy waters run in thine own streets.

¹ Hear these things, ye house of Jacob, ye who are called by the name of Israel! ye who are descendants of Juda! ye who swear by the name of the Lord God of Israel, making mention of it, but not with truth, nor with righteousness;

³² We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more. And the youngest is now with our father in the land of Chanaan.

¹⁸ The people of Zabulon jeoparded their lives to death; And Nephthaleim came to the high places of the field.

³⁵ And the Lord smote Benjamin before the children of Israel. And the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.

⁶ Now the children of Israel had felt compassion for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is now one tribe cut off from Israel, ⁷ What shall we do for wives for the few who are left, seeing we have sworn by the Lord, that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives? ⁸ So when they said, Who is there among the tribes of Israel who came not up before the Lord to Massepha? and behold not a man had come to the camp from Jabis Galaad to the general assembly, ⁹ and the people were reviewed, and there was not a man of the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad; ¹⁰ the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men from among the young warriors, and gave them a charge saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabis Galaad with the edge of the sword: ¹¹ And this you shall do, You shall devote to destruction every male, and every woman who hath cohabited with man: ¹² but the virgins you shall preserve alive. And having done so they found among the inhabitants four hundred young virgins who had not cohabited with man, and brought them to the camp of Selom which is in the land of Chanaan. ¹³ Then all the congregation sent, and spoke to the children of Benjamin at Rock Remmon, and invited them to peace. ¹⁴ And when Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, the Israelites gave them the women whom they had saved alive from among the daughters of Jabis Galaad. ¹⁵ So they were pleased, and the people relented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach among the tribes of Israel. ¹⁶ Then the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for the rest? For all the women of Benjamin are destroyed: ¹⁷ [Now they had determined that the inheritance of the Benjaminites should belong to them who had escaped, that a tribe might not be blotted out from Israel:] ¹⁸ for we cannot give them any of our daughters for wives; for we have sworn among the children of Israel, saying, Cursed be the man who giveth a wife to a Benjaminite. ¹⁹ Then they said, Behold there is a festival of the Lord at Selom, which is kept yearly, on the north of Baithel, towards the rising of the sun, on the high way which goeth up from Baithel to Sychem, and on the south of Lebona. ²⁰ So they gave a charge to the Benjaminites saying, Go and lie in wait among the vineyards, ²¹ and watch, and behold when the daughters of the inhabitants of Selom go out to dance in choirs, start out from the vineyards, and seize for yourselves every man a wife from among the daughters of Selom, and go to the land of Benjamin. ²² And when their fathers or their brothers come to us, to enter a complaint before us, we will say to them, Grant them as a favour to us, because we did not take every man a woman at the battle. Seeing you have not given them, you have, as it were, accidentally transgressed. ²³ And the children of Benjamin did so. And having taken wives according to their number from among the choirs whom they surprised, they went, and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt their cities and dwelt therein. ²⁴ And the children of Israel went at that time every man to his tribe, and to his kindred, and went out thence every man to his possession. ²⁵ And in those days, there being no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes.

²¹ Whereupon Saul answered and said, Am not I a Jeminite, a small sceptre of a community of Israel, and that community the smallest of the whole sceptre of Benjamin? Why therefore hast thou spoken to me in this manner?

¹⁶ There came also some from Benjamin and Juda to the assistance of David.

²⁹ and of the Benjaminites, Saul's brethren, three thousand; but still the greater part of them kept the watch of Saul's house;

³ So when David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the Lord to the place which he had prepared for it,

¹² The ninth for the ninth month was Abiezer of Anathoth, of the land of Benjamin, he was over his division of twenty four thousand.

⁹ The heads of families assembled with the God of Abraham. Because the mighties of the land belong to God, they have been exceedingly exalted.

⁷ Galaad is mine; and mine is Manasses: Ephraim is the strength of my head; Juda, my king;

¹³ And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away; and the enemies of Juda shall be destroyed: Ephraim shall not envy Juda; nor shall Juda vex Ephraim:

¹⁹ Then thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will take the tribe of Joseph which is administered by Ephraim and the tribes of Israel which adhere to him, and add them to the tribe of Juda, and they shall be one sceptre in the hand of Juda. ²⁰ And while the staves on which thou hast written shall be in thy hand before them, ²¹ thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, Behold I will take the whole house of Israel from among the nations, whither they went; and I will gather them from all those around them, and bring them to the land of Israel, ²² and make them a nation in my land even on the mountains of Israel. And there shall be one chief over them. And they shall no more be two nations; nor shall they any more be split into two kingdoms, ²³ that they may no more be polluted with their idols. And I will deliver them from all their iniquities and purify them from all their sins which they have committed. And they shall be my people, and I the Lord will be their God. ²⁴ And my servant David shall be chief among them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and practise them, ²⁵ therefore they shall dwell in that land of theirs which I gave to my servant Jacob. Where their fathers dwelt there they shall dwell and my servant David shall be the only chief forever. ²⁶ And I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. ²⁷ And I will place my sanctuary in the midst of them forever. And my habitation shall be among them; and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

⁸ By day the Lord will command his kindness, and in the night he will make it manifest. Let there be with me a prayer to the God of my life.

⁴ Thou, who didst command the deliverances of Jacob; even thou art my king and my God.

³ Be thou to me a protecting God, and a place of strength to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge.

⁸ Thou, Lord wilt retribute for me. Lord, thy mercy endureth forever; overlook not the works of thy hands.

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.

⁸ Jesus saith to him, Rise; take up thy couch and walk about. ⁹ Upon which the man was instantly well, and took up his couch and walked about. Now there was a sabbath on that day;

⁶ Then Peter said, Silver and gold I have none. But what I have, that I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk. ⁷ Then having taken him by the right hand he raised him up. And instantly his feet and ankle bones were strengthened; ⁸ and leaping up, he stood; then walked and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will with the greatest pleasure, rather boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may shelter me. ¹⁰ I feel therefore a complacency in weaknesses, in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹⁷ that, by means of this belief, the Christ may dwell in your hearts; that you being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, ¹⁹ and to know the love of the Christ which surpasseth that knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fulness of God. 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

⁶ the same confidence, that he who hath begun a good work in you will continue completing it until the day of Jesus Christ;

¹¹ for which purpose we are continually praying for you, that our God would make you worthy of this invitation, and confirm all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith, with power;

¹⁰ Then she gave Solomon a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There came no more such an abundance of spices as the queen of Saba gave Solomon.

²⁴ And all the kings of the land sought an interview with Solomon, to hear his wisdom which the Lord put in his heart. ²⁵ And they brought, every one as gifts, vessels of gold and raiment and stacte and spices and horses and mules and this every year.

⁴ Go, and say to David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in. ⁵ Because I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up Israel even to this day, but have been in a tent and under a curtain ⁶ in all the places, through which passed among Israel, did I ever speak to any tribe of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, and say, Why have you not built for me a house of cedar? ⁷ But now, Thus shalt thou say to my servant David, Thus saith the Lord Almighty, I took thee from the fold; from following the flocks, to be ruler over my people Israel, ⁸ and have been with thee wherever thou hast gone, and have cut off all thy enemies from before thee, and made thee a name like the name of the great men on the earth; ⁹ and I will fix a place for my people Israel, and plant them, and they shall dwell by themselves and no more be in trouble, nor shall a son of iniquity any more humble them as at the first, ¹⁰ even from the time I appointed judges over my people Israel. I have indeed subdued all thy enemies, and I will increase thee and the Lord will build thee a house. ¹¹ And when thy days are fulfilled and thou shalt go to rest with thy fathers, I will raise up thy seed after thee who shall proceed from thy loins, and I will prepare his kingdom. ¹² He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.

⁷ And David said to Solomon, My son, it was in my mind to build a house for the name of the Lord God, ⁸ when there came to me a word from the Lord saying, Thou hast shed much blood, and fought many battles, thou shalt not build a house for my name, because thou hast shed much blood on the earth before me. ⁹ Behold a son shall be born to thee. He shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies round about. For his name shall be Solomon; and I will give Israel peace and rest in his days. ¹⁰ He shall build a house for my name. And he shall be to me a son; and I will be to him a father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom in Israel forever. ¹¹ Now therefore, my son, the Lord will be with thee, and will prosper thee, and thou shalt build a house for the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken concerning thee.

¹⁰ Observe now, since the Lord hath chosen thee to build a house for him for a sanctuary, be strong and do it. ¹¹ Then David gave his son Solomon the model of the temple, and its houses and its treasuries, and of the upper chambers and the inner depositories, and of the house for the propitiation; ¹² and the plan which he had in his mind of the courts of the house of the Lord, and of all the chambers round about; those for store houses for the house of the Lord; and of the depositories for the holy things, and the lodging rooms; ¹³ and of the daily courses of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord; and of the depositories for the vessels used in the service of the house of the Lord; ¹⁴ and the exact weight of these vessels, whether made of gold or of silver. ¹⁵ He gave him the weight of the candle sticks and of the lamps. ¹⁶ He gave him likewise the weight of the tables for the shew bread; of every table made of gold, and likewise of those to be made of silver; ¹⁷ and of the flesh forks and the libation cups, and of the cups of gold; the weight both of those to be made of gold and of those to be made of silver; and of the censers, of each its several weight; ¹⁸ and pointed out to him the weight of the utensils of the altar of incense, which was to be of pure gold; and the model of the chariot of the cherubims with expanded wings, which over shadow the ark of the covenant of the Lord. ¹⁹ All these David gave to Solomon in a drawing of the hand of the Lord, according to the knowledge given him of the workmanship of the model. ²⁰ Then David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of good courage and do the work. Fear not nor be dismayed; for the Lord my God is with thee. He will not leave thee nor forsake thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. And behold this is the model of the temple, and of his house and his treasury, and the upper rooms and the inner depositories, and the house of the propitiation; even the model of the house of the Lord. ²¹ And these are the courses of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of the house of the Lord. And there will be with thee for the work, every artist skilled in every art, and all the chiefs and all the people to execute all thy commands.

³ Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, the gold and silver which I kept for myself, behold this I have given for the house of my God, over and above what I provided for the house of the Holies;

⁵ And as the house which I am going to build is great; for great is the Lord our God above all gods, ⁶ and who is able to build a house for him? For the heaven and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain his glory; who then am I, that I should build a house for him, save only to burn incense before him?

⁸ the Lord said to my father David, Forasmuch as it came into thy heart to build a house for my name, thou hast done well that it was in thy heart. ⁹ But thou shalt not build the house. For thy son who shall spring from thy loins, even he shall build the house for my name.

²³ many brought gifts for the Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Ezekias king of Juda. And he was thenceforth magnified in the eyes of all the nations.

³³ When Ezekias slept with his fathers they buried him in the uppermost of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem paid him distinguished honours at his death: and Manasses his son reigned in his stead.

¹³ This is my answer. By me a decree is made, That every one of the people of Israel in my kingdom, and of the priests, and Levites, who is of his own free will minded to go to Jerusalem, ¹⁴ is sent on behalf of the king, and the seven counsellors, to go with thee to guard to Judea, even to Jerusalem, by the law of their God, which is in thy hand, ¹⁵ for the house of the Lord, the silver and the gold, which the king and the counsellors have freely offered to the God of Israel, who dwelleth in Jerusalem, and all the silver and the gold which thou canst ¹⁶ procure in all the country of Babylon, with the free will offerings of the people and the priests who make free will offerings to the house of God which is at Jerusalem; ¹⁷ enroll thou therefore in this book every one who freely cometh to thee. The bulls, rams and lambs, with their sacrifices and their libations; these thou shalt offer on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem. ¹⁸ And if it seemeth good to thee and thy brethren, to do any thing with the rest of the silver and the gold, ¹⁹ do it as it shall please your God; but the vessels which are given thee for the service of the house of God, deliver up in the presence of God in Jerusalem. ²⁰ And whatsoever more may be wanted for the house of thy God, which thou mayst think ought to be given, give that out of the king's treasure houses and on my behalf. ²¹ I Arthasastha the king, have given an order on all the treasuries which are beyond the river, that whatever Esdras the priest and scribe of the God of heaven shall require of you, be done with all readiness ²² to the amount of a hundred talents of silver, and to the amount of a hundred cores of wheat, and to the amount of a hundred bats of wine, and a hundred bats of oil, and salt without limitation. ²³ Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done. Take heed that no one offer any insult to the house of the God of heaven, lest there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons. ²⁴ Moreover, in respect to all the priests and the Levites, the musicians, the keepers of the gates, the Nathimins, and those employed in the service of the house of God, this hath been notified to you, Take no toll of them. Thou shalt have no authority to exercise dominion over them. ²⁵ And thou Esdras! as the wisdom of God is in thy hand, appoint scribes and judges, that they may administer justice to all the people beyond the river, to all such as know the law of thy God, and to such as know it not you shall make it known. ²⁶ And whoever will not readily perform the law of God, and the law of the king, upon him let judgment be passed, whether it be to death or to correction, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment." ²⁷ Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers who thus put it in the king's heart to glorify the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, ²⁸ and who gave me favour in the eyes of the king and his counsellors, and of all the officers of the king who were high in office. As for me, I strengthened myself, as the good hand of God was upon me, and assembled from among Israel chiefs to go up with me.

⁸ and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may supply me with timber to cover the gates and for the wall of the city, and for a house to which I may go. So the king gave me, as the hand of God was favourable,

¹² when the daughters of Tyre bow down to him with gifts, the richest people of the land will supplicate thy favour.

¹⁰ Let the kings of Tharsis and the isles bring gifts; the kings of the Arabs and Saba offer presents. ¹¹ Let all the kings pay him homage; all the nations serve as vassals.

¹¹ Vow and pay your vows to the Lord our God: let all around him bring gifts to him who is awful;

⁷ At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of Hosts from a people afflicted and peeled; even on account of a people great from this time and forever. A nation having hope, though trodden down, which is in a part of the river of its country, will send them to the place of him, whose name is the Lord of Hosts, even to mount Sion.

⁶ And for thee will come herds of camels and those of Madiam and Gaipha will cover thee, and those of Saba will come bringing gold and will also bring frankincense, and with joy proclaim the salvation of the Lord. ⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together; and the rams of Nabaioth will come; and acceptable offerings will be made on mine altar, and my house of prayer will be glorified. ⁸ [c] Who are those? They are flying like clouds, and like doves with their young towards me! ⁹ [J] For me the islands waited, and among the first the ships of Tarsis to bring thy children from afar and their silver and their gold with them. And because of the holy name of the Lord, and because the Holy One of Israel is glorious; ¹⁰ therefore strangers shall rebuild thy walls and their kings shall wait upon thee. For on account of my wrath I smote thee, but for mercy's sake I have loved thee; ¹¹ and thy gates shall be open continually [by day or by night they shall not be shut] to introduce to thee the wealth of nations and their kings pompously attended.

¹⁶ And thou shalt suck the milk of nations, and feed on the wealth of kings, and shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and that thy Redeemer is the God of Israel. ¹⁷ And instead of brass I will bring thee gold; and instead of iron I will bring thee silver; and instead of wood I will bring thee brass and instead of stones iron. And I will make thy chiefs peaceful and thine overseers righteous;

¹ After this David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took the country, appurtenant to the cities, out of the hand of the Philistines. ² David also smote Moab, and measured them with lines, having caused them to dwell in the country, and there were two lines to be put to death, and two lines to be saved alive. So Moab became servants to David, and brought him gifts. ³ David also smote Adraazar, son of Raab king of Suba. As he was going to establish his authority over the river Euphrates, ⁴ David intercepted a thousand of his chariots, and seven thousand cavalry, and twenty thousand infantry; and David destroyed all the chariots, except one hundred which he reserved for himself. ⁵ And when Syria of Damascus came to assist Adraazar king of Suba, David smote of the Syrians twenty two thousand men, ⁶ and David placed a garrison in Syria at Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought him gifts. So the Lord preserved David withersoever he went. ⁷ And David took the breastplates of gold, which were on the servants of Adraazar, king of Suba and brought them to Jerusalem. Now these were they which Susakim king of Egypt took when he came up against Jerusalem, in the days of Roboam son of Solomon. ⁸ And from Metebak, and from the principal cities of Adraazar, king David took brass in great abundance, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the lavers, and all the vessels of brass. ⁹ And when Thoou, the king of Emath, heard that David had smitten all the army of Adraazar, ¹⁰ Thoou sent his son Jedduram to king David to salute him courteously, and congratulate him for having fought Adraazar, and smitten him; for he was at enmity with Adraazar. And Jedduram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass. ¹¹ And king David dedicated these to the Lord, with the silver and the gold which he had dedicated out of all the cities which he had subdued; ¹² Out of Idumea and Moab, and the children of Ammon, and the Philistines, and Amelek, and the spoils of Adraazar, son of Raab king of Suba. ¹³ Thus David made himself renowned. And when he returned, he smote of the Idumeans at Gebelim, to the number of eighteen thousand, ¹⁴ and placed garrisons in Idumea, throughout the whole extent of it. So all the Idumeans became servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went. ¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel. And David executed judgment and justice over all his people. ¹⁶ And Joab son of Saruia was at the head of the army, and Josaphat son of, Achilud was recorder, ¹⁷ and Sadok, son of Achitob, and Achimelech son of Abiathar, were priests; and Sasa was the scribe; ¹⁸ and Banaias son of Jodae was counsellor; and the Chelethites, and the Phelethites, and David's sons, were the palace guards.

¹ Now after this the king of the Ammonites died, and Annon his son reigned in his stead. ² Whereupon David said, I will shew kindness to Annon, son of Naas, as his father shewed kindness to me. So David sent his servants to comfort him for the death of his father. But when David's servants came to the land of the Ammonites, ³ the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Annon their lord, Is it to honour thy father in thy presence, that David hath sent thee comforters? Is it not rather that they may examine the city and view it? It is indeed for the purpose of spying it, that David hath sent these servants of his to thee. ⁴ Upon this Annon took David's servants, and shaved their beards, and cut off one half of their upper garments, even up to the loins, and sent them away. ⁵ And when David was informed touching his men, he sent to meet them, for the men had been greatly dishonoured, and the king said, Tarry at Jericho till your beards grow, and then return. ⁶ Now when the children of Ammon saw that David's people were dishonoured, they sent, and hired the Syrians of Baithraam, and the Syrians of Suba and Roob, twenty thousand infantry, and of the king of Amelek, a thousand men, and of Istob twelve thousand men. ⁷ And when David heard it, he sent out Joab, and all the army, even all the mighty men. ⁸ And the children of Ammon came out and drew up for battle before the gate of the city; and the Syrians of Suba, and Roob, with Istob, and Amelek, were by themselves in the fields. ⁹ When Joab saw that there was a front of battle against him both before and behind, he made a draught from among all the youth of Israel, and set them in array against the Syrians, ¹⁰ and he committed the residue of the people to his brother Abessa; and they drew up in array against the children of Ammon. ¹¹ And Joab said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, you must come to my assistance; and if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, we will come to save thee. ¹² Act manfully, and let us shew our courage for our people and for the cities of our God. And the Lord will do what is good in his sight. ¹³ Then Joab, and all his people with him, advanced to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. ¹⁴ And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they also fled before Abessa, and entered the city. Whereupon Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Now when the Syrians saw that they had given way before Israel, they assembled together, ¹⁶ and Adraazar sent and collected the Syrians from the banks of the river Chalamak, and they came to Ailam, with Sobak, the commander in chief of Adraazar's army, at their head. ¹⁷ When this was told David, he assembled all Israel, and crossed the Jordan, and came to Ailam; and the Syrians drew up in array against David, and fought him. ¹⁸ But the Syrians fled before Israel, and David destroyed of Syria seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen. He smote also Sobak the commander in chief of the army, so that he died there. ¹⁹ And when all the kings who were vassals of Adraazar saw that they were smitten before Israel, they revolted, and joined Israel and served them. So Syria was intimidated from aiding the Ammonites any more.

¹ And when Abia died they buried him with his fathers, in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In the days of Asa the land of Juda was quiet ten years. ² And he did that which was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God. ³ He removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the bowers, ⁴ and ordered Juda to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to perform the law and the commandments ⁵ And having removed out of all the cities of Juda the altars and the idols, he gave peace ⁶ to the fortified cities in the land of Juda: because the country enjoyed peace, and he had no war during those years, for the Lord gave him rest; ⁷ therefore he said to Juda, let us rebuild the cities, and make walls and towers, and gates and bars, and secure dominion over the country before them. For as we have sought the Lord our God, he hath sought us, and given us rest all around, and prospered us. ⁸ Now Asa had in the land of Juda an army of three hundred thousand men bearing shields and spears, and in the land of Benjamin shield bearers and bowmen, two hundred and eighty six thousand. All these were fighting men. ⁹ And Zare the Ethiopean came out against them with an army of a million, with three hundred chariots. And when he had advanced as far as Maresa, ¹⁰ Asa went out to meet him, and drew up for battle, in the vale north of Maresa, ¹¹ and Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to save with many or with few. Strengthen us, O Lord our God; for on thee is our reliance; and in thy name we are come against this great multitude. Lord our God, let not man prevail against thee. ¹² So the Lord smote the Ethiopeans before Juda. And the Ethiopeans fled, ¹³ and Asa and his people pursued them as far as Gedor. And the Ethiopeans fell so that they could not recover themselves; for they were trampled down before the Lord, and before his army. And when they had taken immense spoils, ¹⁴ and smitten the towns about Gedor [for the terror of the Lord was upon them] and had rifled all their cities [for there was much plunder in them] ¹⁵ and plundered their tents, and smitten the Alimazonians and taken many sheep and camels, and were returning to Jerusalem;

¹ After these things the Moabites and the Ammonites, and with them some of the Minaians came against Josaphat for battle; ² and there came some who told Josaphat saying, There is a great multitude coming against thee from beyond the sea, bordering on Syria, and behold they are at Asasan Thamar, which is Engaddi. ³ Thereupon Josaphat was terrified, and set his face to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast through all Juda ⁴ And when Juda was assembled to seek the Lord; when they were come out of all the cities of Juda to seek the Lord, ⁵ Josaphat stood up in the congregation of Juda, in Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, in front of the new court, ⁶ and said, O Lord the God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above? Thou indeed rulest over all the kingdoms of the nations: and in thy hand is the majesty of power; and there is none who can withstand thee. ⁷ Art not thou the Lord who destroyed the inhabitants of this land from before thy people Israel? Thou indeed didst give it to the seed of Abraham thy beloved, forever: ⁸ and they have settled therein, and built therein a sanctuary to thy name, saying, ⁹ If evils come upon us, the sword, judgment, pestilence or famine, we will stand before this house and before thee; for thy name is on this house; and cry to thee, because of the affliction, and thou wilt hear and save. ¹⁰ And now behold the Ammonites and the Moabites and mount Seir, through whose territories thou didst not permit Israel to pass, when they were coming out of the land of Egypt, for they turned from them and did not destroy them; ¹¹ yet now behold they are attempting to come out against us, to drive us from this inheritance of ours which thou hast given us. ¹² Lord our God, wilt thou not judge them? Because we have not power to withstand this great multitude which is coming against us, and do not know what to do with them, we can only have our eyes on thee. ¹³ And while all the chiefs of Juda were standing before the Lord, with their wives and children; ¹⁴ upon Oziel the son of Zacharias of the Banaites; the sons of Eliel, the son of Matthanias the Levite, one of the sons of Asaph; upon him came the spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation, ¹⁵ and he said, Hear all ye chiefs of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Josaphat! Thus saith the Lord to you, Be not terrified nor dismayed because of this vast multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's only. ¹⁶ Go down against them to-morrow. Behold they are coming up by the ascent of Asseis, and you will find them at the head of the river of the wilderness of Jeriel. ¹⁷ You have not to fight. Consider these things, and see the salvation of the Lord with you. Juda and Jerusalem, be not terrified nor afraid to go out to-morrow to meet them; for the Lord is with you. ¹⁸ Thereupon Josaphat bowed down on his face, and while all the chiefs of Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem prostrated themselves before the Lord to worship him, ¹⁹ the Levites of the sons of Kaath, and of the sons of Kore, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel, in the loudest strains. ²⁰ And they arose early in the morning, and went out to the wilderness of Thekoe. And as they were marching out, Josaphat stood and cried with a loud voice, and said, Hear me, Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. Trust in the Lord our God, and you shall be confirmed in your confidence. Confide in his prophet, and you shall prosper. ²¹ Then he consulted with the people, and appointed the musicians, and them who sing praises, to give thanks and to sing the holy songs of praise. So marching at the head of the army, they sung the hymn, praise the Lord, for his mercy endureth forever. ²² And when they began the song of thanksgiving and praise, the Lord set a fighting the Ammonites against Moab and Mount Seir, who were going out against Juda; And when they were repelled, ²³ the Ammonites and Moab rose upon the inhabitants of Seir to exterminate and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they rose up one against the other till they were utterly destroyed. ²⁴ So when Juda came to the watch tower of the wilderness, and looked and took a view of the multitude, behold they all lay dead on the ground. Not one had escaped. ²⁵ And when Josaphat and his people went to gather the spoil, they found cattle in abundance, and furniture and spoils and precious utensils. And when they had gathered the spoils [now they were three days collecting them, for they were many] ²⁶ on the fourth day they assembled in the valley of Praise; for there they praised the Lord, and for that reason called the name of that place, Valley of Praise, which it retaineth to this day. ²⁷ Then all Juda with Josaphat their leader, set out on their return to Jerusalem, with great joy. Because the Lord had caused them to rejoice over their enemies, ²⁸ therefore they made their entry into Jerusalem, and nablas and kinyras and trumpets, till they came to the house of the Lord. ²⁹ And there was a dread of the Lord on all the kingdoms of the land, when they heard that the Lord fought against the enemies of Israel. ³⁰ the kingdom of Josaphat enjoyed peace, and God gave him rest on every side. ³¹ Now Josaphat began to reign over Juda when he was thirty five years of age, and he reigned twenty five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Azuba. She was a daughter of Sali. ³² And he walked in the ways of his father Asa, and turned not aside from doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. ³³ But the high places still remained, and still the people did not direct their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers. ³⁴ Now the rest of the acts of Josaphat, first and last, behold they are written among the words of Jehu, son of Anani, who wrote the book of the kings of Israel. ³⁵ After the things above mentioned, Josaphat king of Juda entered into a partnership with Ochozias, king of Israel, and he offended in so doing, ³⁶ and in going to him to build vessels to sail to Tharsis. Therefore when he had built vessels at Gesiongaber, ³⁷ Eliezer the son of Dodia, from Marisa, prophesied against Josaphat, saying, Because thou hast contracted a friendship with Ochozias, the Lord hath destroyed thy work, and thy vessels are wrecked so that they could not go to Tharsis.

²¹ They go to rest under trees of every sort, by the papyrus, the reed and the bulrush:

¹² Keep fast hold of instruction; the Lord may be angry and you may perish out of the right way. When his anger suddenly blazeth forth, happy are all they who have trusted in him.

⁴⁴ Soon as they heard, they obeyed me.

¹² Many bulls have encompassed me; fat bulls have beset me around. ¹³ Against me they have opened their mouth, like a ravening and roaring lion.

⁷ I was for peace; but when I spoke they attacked me without provocation.

⁷ therefore the fatlings shall fall with them, namely the rams and the bulls. And the land shall be drenched with blood, and glutted with their suet.

¹ And when Ezekias heard them he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and went up to the house of the Lord. ² And he sent Eliakim the steward and Somnas the scribe and the elders of the priests clothed with sackcloth to Esaias son of Amos the prophet with this message to him, Thus saith Ezekias, ³ "This day is a day of trouble and of reproach and of rebuke and of wrath; for pangs are come on a woman in travail and she hath not strength to bring forth. ⁴ That the Lord thy God may attend to the message of Rabsakes which the king of the Assyrians hath sent to reproach the Living God; and refute the words which the Lord thy God hath heard, thou shouldst pray to the Lord for these poor remains." ⁵ So when the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias ⁶ he said to them, "Thus shall you say to your lord, Thus saith the Lord, Be not terrified at the words which thou hast heard; with which the messengers of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me. ⁷ Behold I am about to put such a spirit in him, that he having heard news will return to his own country: and he shall fall by the sword in his own land." ⁸ So Rabsakes returned and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna, for he heard that he had removed from Lachis; ⁹ and Thoraka king of the Ethiopians came out to give him battle. Upon hearing this, he retreated, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying, ¹⁰ Thus shall you say to Ezekias king of Judea, "Let not thy God, on whom thou reliest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of the Assyrians. ¹¹ Hast thou not heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done? How they have destroyed all the land? ¹² And shalt thou be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them whom my ancestors destroyed? Either, Goza or Charran or Raphath which are in the country of Theemath? ¹³ Where are the kings of Emath? And where those of Arphath? And where those of the city Eppharuim, of Anagougana? ¹⁴ When Ezekias received the letter from the messengers and had read it, he went up to the house of the Lord; and having spread it before the Lord, ¹⁵ Ezekias prayed to the Lord, saying, ¹⁶ "O Lord of Hosts the God of Israel, who art enthroned on the cherubim! Thou alone art the God of every kingdom of the World. Thou hast made the heaven and the earth. ¹⁷ Incline, Lord, thine ear! Lord, hearken! Open, O Lord, thine eyes! Lord, look down and behold the words of Sennacherim which he hath sent to reproach the Living God. ¹⁸ In truth, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste this whole inhabited land and the country of those [here mentioned] ¹⁹ and have cast their idols into the fire; for they were not gods; but works of mens" hands, stocks and stones; ²⁰ therefore they destroyed them. But now, Lord, our God, save us out of their hands that every kingdom of the earth may know, that thou alone art God." ²¹ Thereupon Esaias son of Amos was sent to Ezekias and said to him, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, " I have heard the prayer which thou hast made to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians. ²² This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him, "The virgin daughter of Sion hath despised thee and mocked thee; at thee the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head; ²³ whom hast thou reproached and provoked? Or against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, [without lifting up thine eye to the Holy One of Israel?] ²⁴ That by thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord? For thou hast said, By the multitude of my chariots, I have ascended the height of mountains, and to the utmost limits of Libanus, and cut down the lofty cedar and beautiful cypress, and entered the stately part of the forest. ²⁵ I have laid bridges and dried up waters and every collection of water ²⁶ "Hast thou not heard those things of old which I have done? From ancient times I gave command and have now pointed out to lay waste nations in strong places and them Who dwell in fortified cities. ²⁷ I weakened their hands and they were dried up, and became like dry grass on house tops, and like a blasted ear of corn. ²⁸ And now I know thy resting place and thy going out and thy coming in. As the rage with which thou hast been inflamed, ²⁹ and thy bitterness are come up to me; I will therefore put a hook in thy nose and a bridle in thy jaws; and turn thee back by the way in which thou camest." ³⁰ Now this shall be a sign to thee. Eat this year what thou hast sown, and in the second year what is left; but in the third year sow ye and reap; plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof; ³¹ for they who are left shall continue in Judea. They shall strike root downwards and bear fruit upwards. ³² For they of Jerusalem shall be left and they of mount Sion shall be saved. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this. ³³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, With regard to the king of the Assyrians, he shall not enter this city; nor shoot an arrow against it; nor present against it a shield; nor enclose it with a rampire ³⁴ But by the way which he came, by the same he shall return; and into this city he shall not come. Thus saith the Lord, ³⁵ I will cover this city with my shield to save it for mine own sake and the sake of my servant David. So an angel of the Lord went forth and slew of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when they arose in the morning they found all these dead bodies. ³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive. ³⁷ And as he was Worshipping, in his house, Nasarach his ancestor; Adramelech and Sarousar his sons smote him with their swords; and, they having made their escape to Armenia, Asardan his son reigned in his stead.

¹¹ Because you rejoiced and triumphed when you were plundering my heritage; because you frisked about like calves in a pasture, and brandished your horns like bulls;

³² that the passages one after another are forced; that the barriers are burned with fire and his warriors are fleeing. Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon swallowed Die down; like a dragon he tilled his belly with my dainties. They have cast me up.

³ and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against Pharao; that great dragon which walloweth in the midst of his rivers, and saith, "These rivers are mine and I made them."

²² For in the inner man I am delighted with the law of God;

¹ Whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not from this"from those sensual appetites of yours which are at war in your members?

²² Then Solomon went up over against the altar of the Lord, in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven

²⁰ Have we forgotten the name of our God; or have we stretched out our hands to a strange god? Will not God search out these things,

⁸ And let him rule from sea to sea; and from the river to the limits of the World. ⁹ Let the Ethiopeans bow down before him; and let his enemies lick the dust.

⁹ mine eyes were weakened by affliction. To thee, Lord, I cried all the day long: to thee I stretched forth my hands.

⁶ I spread forth my hands to thee; for thee my soul thirsted like land without water.

¹⁸ In that day there shall be five cities in Egypt which shall speak the language of Chanaan. And swear by the name of the Lord of Hosts: and one of them shall be called the city of Asedek. ¹⁹ And in that day there shall be an altar for the Lord in the country of the Egyptians, and at its boundary a pillar for the Lord, ²⁰ and it shall be an everlasting sign for the Lord, in the country of Egypt. Because they will cry to the Lord on account of their oppressors, therefore he will send them a man who will save them: he will vindicate their cause and deliver them. ²¹ And the Lord will be made known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will acknowledge the Lord in that day, and offer sacrifices and make vows to the Lord and perform them. ²² Thus will the Lord smite the Egyptians and heal them, and they shall be turned to the Lord, and he will hearken to them and heal them. ²³ In that day this will be the highway from Egypt to Assyria; and Assyrians will come to Egypt and Egyptians to Assyria; and the Egyptians shall serve the Assyrians. ²⁴ In that day Israel shall be a third, among the Egyptians and among the Assyrians, blessed in the land which the Lord of Hosts hath blessed ²⁵ saying, "Blessed is my people which is in Egypt, and which is in Assyria and Israel which is mine inheritance."

¹⁴ Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, That for which Egypt laboured and the traffick of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans men of tall stature shall come over to thee; and they shall be thy vassals and shall follow thee bound with chains. They will come over to thee and pay thee homage and pray to thee because God is in thee. [c] There is indeed no God besides thee.

⁶ And for thee will come herds of camels and those of Madiam and Gaipha will cover thee, and those of Saba will come bringing gold and will also bring frankincense, and with joy proclaim the salvation of the Lord. ⁷ And all the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together; and the rams of Nabaioth will come; and acceptable offerings will be made on mine altar, and my house of prayer will be glorified.

¹⁹ And I will leave among them a sign, and those of them who escape I will send to the nations; to Tharsis and Phud and Lud and Mosach and to Thobel and Greece and to the far distant isles. They who have not heard my name nor seen my glory; even they shall proclaim my glory among the nations;

¹⁰ From the ends of the rivers of Ethiopia I will expect them; among my dispersed they shall bring sacrifices for me.

²⁷ So he arose and went. And lo! a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, a grandee of Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who was her high treasurer, who had come to Jerusalem to worship, ²⁸ and was on his return, was sitting in a chariot and reading the prophet Esaias. ²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near and keep close to that chariot. ³⁰ So Philip ran close up and heard him reading the prophet Esaias. Whereupon he said, Dost thou understand what thou art reading? ³¹ To which he replied, How can I unless some one guide me? Then he invited Philip to come up and take a seat with him. ³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. ³³ In his humiliation his legal trial is taken away. Who will declare his manner of life? Because his life is taken from the earth. ³⁴ And the eunuch addressing Philip, said, Of whom, I pray thee, doth the prophet say this? Of himself or of some other person? ³⁵ Then Philip opened His mouth, and beginning with this scripture, told him the glad tidings of Jesus. ³⁶ And as they continued the journey, they came to a certain water. Whereupon the eunuch said, Behold! here is water. What hindereth my being baptized? ³⁷ And Philip said, If thou believest with thy whole heart, it may be done. To which he replied, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. ³⁸ Then he ordered the chariot to stop. And they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. ³⁹ And when they came up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord conveyed Philip away. And the eunuch saw him no more. For he proceeded on in his journey rejoicing, ⁴⁰ and Philip was found at Azotus. And passing on he proclaimed the glad tidings in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

⁴³ Rejoice, heavens, with him, And let all the angels of God worship him: Rejoice, nations, with his people, And let all the children of God rely on him: For he avengeth the blood of his children, And will judge, and execute vengeance on his enemies, To them who hate him he will render retribution, And the Lord will purify the land of his people.

² Because of knowing thy way on the earth, thy salvation among all nations; ³ let peoples praise thee, O God, let all peoples praise thee. ⁴ Let nations be glad and rejoice, because thou judgest peoples righteously, and wilt guide nations on the earth. ⁵ Let peoples praise thee, O God, let all peoples praise thee.

¹ A Psalm of praise. Shout triumphantly for the Lord, all ye of the land.

²² When tribes were assembled together; and kings, to serve the Lord;

¹ An Alleluia. O Praise the Lord, all ye nations! Praise him all ye peoples! ² For his kindness is exerted for us, And the truth of the Lord will endure forever.

¹⁰ And again it is said, "Rejoice, O nations, with his people." ¹¹ And again, Praise the Lord, all ye nations: Praise him, all ye people,

⁴ Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art perfect. For all the nations will come and worship before thee, For thy rules of rectitude are made manifest.

¹⁴ Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, belong to the Lord thy God, the earth also, and all that are therein.

²⁷ Will God indeed dwell with men on the earth! If the heaven and the heaven of heaven will not suffice thee, far less indeed this house which I have built for thy name.

³ The voice of the Lord on the waters! The God of the glory thundered! The Lord is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is with power: the voice of the Lord is with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord rending the cedars! The Lord will rend the cedars of Lebanon, and shatter them to pieces: ⁶ as a young unicorn would a calf; so will the beloved [shatter] Lebanon itself. ⁷ The voice of the Lord bursting through a flame of fire! The voice of the Lord shaking the wilderness. ⁸ The Lord will shake the wilderness of Kades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise;

⁶ The nations were troubled, kingdoms tottered; he uttered his voice, the earth was shaken.

⁴ Sing to God; celebrate his name in songs: make way for him who is riding westward. His name is the Lord, rejoice before him.

¹⁷ Great was the roaring of the waters; the clouds uttered a sound: for thy bolts were passing through them. ¹⁸ The sound of thy thunder was in the round expanse: thy lightnings illumed the World; the earth shook and trembled.

² From that time thy throne was prepared: thou thyself art from everlasting.

²⁵ Thou Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

⁵ and the sound of the wings of the cherubims was heard to the outer court like the voice of God Saddai speaking.

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name. Thereupon a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again." ²⁹ The multitude therefore who were standing by, when they heard it, said, it thundered. Others said, An angel hath spoken to him,

¹² and they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, Come up hither; and they ascended up to heaven in the cloud and their enemies beheld them;

¹⁵ Then the seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of the world are become [the kingdom] of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for the ages of the ages.

²⁸ Ascribe to the Lord, ye families of nations, Ascribe to the Lord glory and majesty ²⁹ Ascribe to the Lord, glory to his name. Take gifts and bring them before him, And worship the Lord in his holy courts.

¹ A Psalm of David, at the exode of the tabernacle. Offer to the Lord, ye children of God; offer to the Lord the offspring of rams. Offer to the Lord glory and honour: ² Offer to the Lord, glory to his name. worship the Lord in his holy court.

⁶ Honour and comeliness are before him, holiness and majesty in his temple. ⁷ Ascribe to the Lord, ye families of nations; ascribe to the Lord glory and honour ⁸ ascribe to the Lord glory to his name. Take sacrifices and come to his courts:

¹ An Alleluia. Praise God in his holies; praise him in the firmament of his power.

¹⁷ For he was receiving honour and glory from God the Father, when a voice was uttered to him, from the transcendent glory, "This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased."

⁶ And I heard as it were a voice of a great multitude and as a sound of many waters, and as it were a peal of mighty thunder saying, Alleluia. Because the Lord God the Omnipotent reigneth,

¹ Then sung Moses and the Israelites this song to God, and spoke saying, Let us sing to the Lord, For he is gloriously exalted; Horse and rider he hath thrown in the sea.

²⁵ His shoe shall be iron and brass. As thy days so shall be thy strength.

⁵ and I said, I beseech thee, Lord, God of heaven, the Mighty, the Great and the Awful, who keepest thy covenant and thy mercy with them who love thee and keep thy commandments,

¹¹ The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

⁴ and prosper and reign, for truth, meekness and justice's sake; and let thine own right hand marvellously conduct thee.

² for the Lord Most High is awful; a great king over all the earth.

⁵ Come and see the works of God! He is awful in counsels touching the sons of men.

²⁰ Blessed be God who hath not rejected my prayer; nor turned away his mercy from me.

¹² to him who taketh away the spirits of chiefs: to him who is terrible to the kings of the earth.

²⁹ He it is who giveth strength to the hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow.

²¹ If they will proclaim, let them draw near and know at once, who hath published these things from the beginning: then let them be announced to you. I am God and there is no other besides me; a just God and a saviour be sides me there is none.

¹² And I will strengthen them in the Lord their God, and in his name they shall boast; saith the Lord.

¹⁶ that he would, according to the riches of his glory, grant you to be strengthened by his spirit for the inner man,

¹³ I can undergo all things through Christ who strengthened me.

¹¹ being strengthened with all might according to the power of his glory for all patience and long suffering we with joy

²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel. ²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth, but he hath now announced, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth but the heaven also." ²⁷ Now this expression, "Yet once more" signifieth the removal of the things shaken, as having been made, that the things which are immoveable may remain. ²⁸ As we have therefore received a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and holy awe: ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.