Psalms 73 Cross References - Thomson

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. How good is God to Israel! To such as are upright in heart! ² But as for me, my feet were almost gone: my steps had well nigh slipped; ³ for I envied the unrighteous; when I saw the prosperity of sinners. ⁴ For there is no lifting up of eyes in their death: and in their affliction they have support. ⁵ They are not in trouble like other men; nor with other men to be scourged. ⁶ Therefore haughtiness hath got a mastery over them; they have clothed themselves with their iniquity and impiety. ⁷ Their iniquity springeth up as it were out of fatness; they passed on to the purpose of their heart. ⁸ They thought and spoke wickedly; they spoke injustice with a lofty air. ⁹ They set their mouth against heaven; and their tongue passed on over the earth. ¹⁰ Shall my people therefore turn to this; and will full days be found by them? ¹¹ They indeed said, How doth God know? and, Is there any knowledge in the Most High? ¹² Behold these who are sinful men; are always prosperous and have gotten wealth. ¹³ Nay, I myself said, Have I then in vain kept my heart just; and washed my hands in innocence. ¹⁴ All the day long I have been scourged; and the accusation against me is renewed every morning. ¹⁵ Had I said, I will make such a declaration openly: I should have been treacherous to the generation of thy children. ¹⁶ I therefore supposed, the trouble of knowing this is before me. ¹⁷ When I go to the sanctuary of God; I may understand the final issue. ¹⁸ It is but for their frauds thou hast dealt thus with them. Thou hast overthrown them by their exaltation.! ¹⁹ how they were for destruction! They are gone in a moment! They perished for their iniquity! ²⁰ As a dream of one awaked out of sleep. Thou, Lord, in thy city wilt spurn their ghost; ²¹ therefore my heart was cheered and my reins were changed. ²² I indeed was despicable for my want of knowledge; I was brutish as a beast before thee. ²³ As for me I shall be with thee continually: thou hast held me by my right hand: ²⁴ with thy counsel thou hast guided me, and taken me to thyself with glory. ²⁵ For what is there in heaven for me; or what on earth have I desired, besides thee? ²⁶ Hath my heart and my flesh failed? God is the strength of my heart; God is my portion forever. ²⁷ Seeing they who withdrew themselves from thee, shall perish; thou hast cut off every one who goeth a whoring from thee: ²⁸ It is therefore good for me to cleave to God; to place my hope upon the Lord: that I may publish all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

³⁹ and his brother Asaph who stood on his right; Asaph was the son of Barachias son of Samaa,

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

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:

³⁷ And when they had praised the Lord, they left there, before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, Asaph and his brethren, that they might minister before the ark continually as each day's service required.

¹ Then David the king with the chiefs of this host, appointed to their services the sons of Asaph and Aiman and Idithun, who chanted with kinyras and with nablas and with cymbals, and an account was taken by poll of those employed in these services. ² The sons of Asaph were Zakchur and Joseph, and Nathanias and Erael. The sons of Asaph were near the king. ³ With Idithun were the sons of Idithun, Godolias and Suri, and Iseas and Asabias, and Matthathias, six after their father Idithim, chanting on kinyras thanksgiving and praise to the Lord. ⁴ When Aiman were the sons of Aiman, Bukias and Matthanias, and Oziel and Subael, and Jerimoth and Ananias, and Anan and Eliatha, and Godollathi and Rometthiezer, and Jesbasaka and Melithi, and Otheri and Meazoth. ⁵ All these sons Aiman had with him when he commenced a psalm for the king in the words of God. To exalt the horn God indeed had given Aiman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these with their father, sung in the house of God to cymbals and nablas and kinyras, for the service of the house of God near the king, with Asaph and Idithun and Aiman.

³⁰ Ezekias the king, and the chiefs, ordered the Levites to praise the Lord, in the words of David, and of Asaph the prophet. And when they had sung praises with gladness, they fell on their faces and worshipped.

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

⁴ He whose hands are clean and whose heart is pure. Who hath not devoted his soul to vanity; nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.

¹¹ Why art thou, my soul, cast down; and why disquietest thou me? Trust in God, for I shall praise him; he is the health of my countenance and my God.

¹ A Psalm, for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken, and summoned the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun.

¹⁰ Create in me, God, a pure heart; and renew a right spirit within me.

¹⁸ It is but for their frauds thou hast dealt thus with them. Thou hast overthrown them by their exaltation.!

¹ An Ode of a Psalm by Asaph. GOD, who can be compared to thee? Keep not silence nor be still, God.

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

⁷ [c] I recollected the loving kindness of the Lord; the mercies of the Lord in all those things which he retributeth for us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel. He dealeth with us according to his tender mercy and according to the abundance of his saving goodness, ⁸ and said "Is not this my people? Children should not rebel." And he became their Saviour from all their distress. ⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old.

¹⁴ Jerusalem! wash thy heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved. How long do ill grounded reasonings for thy troubles remain in thee?

⁸ Happy the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

³² Fear not, little flock. Because it hath pleased your Father to give you that kingdom,

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathaniel coming to him and saith respecting him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile!

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

¹⁶ Therefore the promise is because of faith, that it may be matter of favour to this extent, that it may be firm to the whole seed"not only to that under the law, but to that of the faith of Abraham,

⁶ It is not however to be supposed that the word of God hath failed. For with regard to all the descendants of Israel, they are not Israel; ⁷ nor are they all children, because they are of the race of Abraham; but in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee.

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,

⁸ Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

⁹ He granteth the petitioner his prayer, And hath blessed the years of the righteous; Because a man is not mighty in strength,

²³ And as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.

⁷ And David said to Solomon, My son, it was in my mind to build a house for the name of the Lord God,

⁵ For it hath been ordered that for a time he shall fall beneath others: and that his houses shall be wasted by transgressors.

⁴ What! is my pleading with man? Or, why shall I not be inflamed with indignation?

⁷ As for me, I through thine abundant mercy, will go to thy house: I will worship before thy holy temple, in thy fear.

⁵ Establish my footsteps in thy paths; that my footsteps may not be moved.

¹⁵ But as for me, let me appear righteous before thee; let me be satisfied with a display of thy glory.

¹³ As for me, while they were raising troubles against me I cloathed myself with sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting. Though my prayer is to return into mine own bosom,

¹⁶ for I said, Perhaps mine enemies may rejoice over me: [Indeed when my feet slipped, they used swelling words against me]

¹⁸ Did I say, My foot hath slipped? Thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

⁸ Because he hath delivered my soul from death; mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling:

²³ but I perceive another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me from this deathful body?

⁷ Why do the wicked live and grow old, abounding in wealth?

¹ By David. Fret not because of evil doers: nor envy them who commit iniquity.

⁷ Submit thyself to the Lord, and supplicate him; fret not at the man who prospereth in his way; at the man who committeth iniquity.

³¹ Acquire not the reproaches of bad men, nor be fond of their ways.

¹⁷ Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

¹ My son, envy not bad men, nor desire to be with them:

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy?

⁵ Do you think that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which dwelt in us excite desire to envy?

²³ One is to die in his full strength, all his life being successful and prosperous; ²⁴ his entrails are cloathed with fat, and his bones abound with marrow.

²⁰ Now was such a one's sin brought to remembrance? Though he was dark as the darkness of night; retribution should be made for what he hath done: and every wicked man should be broken; like a tree which cannot be healed.

¹⁰ they shut up their fat; their mouth spoke proudly.

¹⁴ from thine enemies hand Dismiss them, Lord, from the land: disperse them in their life time. Though their belly was filled with thy stores; they glutted themselves with swine's flesh, and left the relicks for their children.

¹⁶ because there is no remembrance forever of the wise man more than of the fool [seeing the days are now coming when all shall be for gotten and the wise must die as well as the fool]

¹⁵ In the days of my vanity I took a view of all classes. Here is a righteous man perishing for his righteous act: there a wicked man continuing in his wickedness.

²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried.

⁶ For at the bare recollection I shudder: and tortures rack my flesh.

⁹ Their houses flourish and they have no dread; and a scourge from the Lord is not upon them.

¹² Behold these who are sinful men; are always prosperous and have gotten wealth.

¹¹ My son, slight not the correction of the Lord; nor faint when reproved by him: ¹² for whom the Lord loveth he reproveth: and chastiseth every son whom he receiveth.

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy? ² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.

³² And being judged, we are corrected by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

⁸ Now if you are without correction, of which all are partakers, you are indeed bastards and not sons.

¹⁹ Whomsoever I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and reform.

⁴² And Pharao took off the ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him with a cotton robe, and put a chain of gold about his neck;

¹³ and when thy herds, and thy flocks, are multiplied, and thou hast silver and gold in abundance, and all thy possessions are multiplied, ¹⁴ be not elated in heart, nor forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

¹⁵ When Jacob had eaten and was filled, Then he who was beloved began to kick; He grew fat, waxed thick, and became corpulent, Then he forsook the God who made him; And apostatised from God his saviour.

²⁶ and the weight of the gold ear-rings, which he had requested, was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, exclusive of the necklaces, and bracelets, and the garments, and purple robes, which were on the kings of Madiam, and exclusive of the chains which were about the neck of their camels.

¹ After these things king Artaxerxes honoured Haman of Amadathus the Bougaian, and promoted him, and seated him first of all his friends,

⁵ So when Haman understood that Mordecai did not bow down to him, ⁶ he was greatly inflamed with wrath, and determined to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes.

⁹ Then Haman went out from the king overjoyed and gladdened, but upon seeing Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was inflamed with great indignation. ¹⁰ So going home, he called his friends and his wife Zosara, ¹¹ and having displayed to them his riches and the honour which the king had conferred on him; how he had promoted him to the highest rank and made him ruler of the kingdom,

⁷ Why do the wicked live and grow old, abounding in wealth? ⁸ Their crops are to their wish, and their children before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses flourish and they have no dread; and a scourge from the Lord is not upon them. ¹⁰ Their kine bring not forth untimely births, but go their time safely, and cast not their calves. ¹¹ They abide continually like a flock, and their little ones frolick about them. ¹² They take up the psaltery and kithara, and are charmed with the sound of the song; ¹³ and having spent their life in festivity, they are composed to rest in the peaceful grave. ¹⁴ Yet he saith to the Lord, Depart from me, I desire not to know thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him: and what the advantage, that we should wait on him?

¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing as with a mantle; and it came like water in his bowels; and like oil into his bones:

²⁹ Let them who traduce me, be clothed with shame: let them be covered with their shame as with a mantle.

⁹ for thou wilt receive a graceful crown for thy head; and a chain of gold for thy neck.

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness; and drink plentifully of the wine of violence.

¹¹ Because those who do evil are not speedily called to an account, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evil.

⁹ Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister spouse: thou hast ravished my heart with a glance of thine eyes; with an endearing turn of thy neck.

¹⁹ the solitaire and the ornament of the brow,

¹¹ Moab enjoyed rest from his youth and trusted in his glory; he hath not been decanted from vessel to vessel; and into banishment he hath never gone. Therefore his taste remaineth in him and his flavour is not lost:

²⁹ [p] I have heard indeed of the pride of Moab: he was very proud; and of his haughtiness; his heart was elated.

¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets round thy wrists and a chain round thy neck,

² and thou son of man say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord, Because thy heart is elated, and thou hast said, "I am a God."" I inhabit the dwelling of a god in the heart of the sea." Now as for thee thou art a man and not a God; though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God. ³ Art thou wiser than Daniel? Have not wise men taught thee with their knowledge? ⁴ Didst thou by thy knowledge, or thine own understanding, procure for thyself power and gold and silver in thy treasuries? ⁵ By thy great skill and thy traffic thou hast increased thy wealth; and with thy wealth thy heart is elated;

³⁰ he spake, saying, Is not this the great Babylon which I have built for the house of a kingdom, by the might of my power, for the display of my glory?

¹ They planned mischief; they contrived evils on their beds, and soon as it was day they executed them; for they did not lift up their hands to God. ² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance;

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

⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. ⁵ You have lived luxuriously on the earth. You have indulged voluptuousness. You have pampered your hearts, as on a day of public feasting. ⁶ You have condemned you have murdered the just one. Is he not setting himself in array against you?

⁵ Likewise ye who are young, submit to those more advanced in years. And being all submissive to one another; adorn yourselves with humility; because "God resisteth the proud and granteth favour to the humble;"

² Now there was a man at Maon whose flocks were at Carmel. He was a very wealthy man. He had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats, and he was sheering his sheep at Carmel.

³⁶ Then Abigaia went to Nabal, and behold he had an entertainment at his house like that; of a king, and Nabal's heart was elated for he was very drunk, so she told him nothing less or more till the next morning.

²⁷ Because he covered his face with fatness; and made collops of fat upon his thighs:

⁷⁰ Their heart was curdled like milk: but I meditated on thy law.

⁹ Because their glory is now humbled; and the shame of their countenance is risen up against them: their sin therefore, like the Sodomites, they proclaimed and openly avowed.

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

⁴⁹ But this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; Pride. Through fulness of bread and prosperity she and her daughters grew wanton. There was this also in her and her daughters that they did not assist the distressed and the needy;

¹⁶ Then he spoke a parable to them saying, There was a certain rich man, whose ground produced plenteously. ¹⁷ Whereupon he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do; for I have not room to store my crops. ¹⁸ Then he said, I will do this. I will pull down my store houses and build larger, and there lay up all my produce and my good things. ¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful.

⁹ And he said to his nation, Behold the race of the children of Israel is become a great multitude, and is mightier than we. ¹⁰ Come therefore, let us deal subtilly with them. Perhaps when they are multiplied, if a war should happen to us, they will join our enemies and fight against us and depart out of the land.

¹⁹ [Now there was not a blacksmith to be found in all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, The Hebrews must not make a sword or a spear;

⁷ And Jezabel his wife said to him, Is it thus thou now actest the king over Israel? Arise and eat, and be like thyself, and I will give thee the vineyard of Nabuthi the Jezraelite. ⁸ Then she wrote a letter in Achab's name, and sealed it with his seal, and sent it to the elders and freemen, who dwelt with Nabuthi. ⁹ This was the purport of the letter. Proclaim a fast and set Nabuthi at the head of the people, ¹⁰ and suborn two wicked men and let them testify against him saying, He renounced God and the king. Then let him be led out and stoned to death. ¹¹ And the men of the city, the elders and freemen who dwelt in his city did as Jezabel had sent to them, even as it was written in the letter she sent them. ¹² So having proclaimed a fast, they set Nabuthi at the head of the people, ¹³ and there came in two wicked men and sat over against him and testified against him saying, Thou hast renounced God and the king. Upon which they led him out of the city, and stoned him with stones so that he died. ¹⁴ Then they sent to Jezabel saying, Nabuthi hath been stoned and is dead. ¹⁵ When Jezabel heard she said to Achab, Arise and take possession of the vineyard of Nabuthi the Jezraelite, who would not give it to thee for money, for he is not alive, for he is dead. ¹⁶ But when Achab heard that Nabuthi the Jezraelite was dead, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth; yet after doing this, he arose and went down to the vineyard of Nabuthi the Jezraelite, to take possession of it. ¹⁷ Whereupon the Lord spoke to Elias the Thesbite, saying, ¹⁸ Arise and go down to meet Achab king of Israel, who is at Samaria; for he is in the vineyard of Nabuthi; for he is gone down there to take possession of it 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. ²⁰ And Achab said to Elias, Hast thou found me, my enemy? To which he replied, I have found thee. Because thou hast sold thyself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to wrath, ²¹ behold I am going to bring evil upon thee, and I will kindle a flame after thee and utterly destroy the whole race of Achab, both him who is attended and him who is neglected in Israel. ²² And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nabat, and like the house of Bassa son of Achia, for the provocations with which thou hast provoked me, and caused Israel to sin. ²³ And to Jezabel the Lord hath spoken saying, The dogs shall devour her on the ramparts of Jezrael. ²⁴ Him of Achab who dieth in the city, the dogs shall devour, and him who dieth in the fields, the birds of the air shall devour. ²⁵ But though Achab had acted foolishly in selling himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, as Jezabel his wife incited him, ²⁶ and though he had rendered himself very abominable, by following abominations with all the ceremonies practised by the Amorites, whom the Lord had rooted out from before Israel; ²⁷ yet as Achab was struck with compunction at this message on account of the Lord, and went away weeping; and as he had rent his clothes and girded sackcloth on his body and fasted; for he had put on sackcloth on the day he smote Nabuthi the Jezraelite; therefore when he went away, ²⁸ a word of the Lord came by the hand of his servant Elias concerning Achab, and the Lord said, ²⁹ Hast thou seen how Achab is struck with compunction on account of me? I will not bring on the calamity in his days; but in the days of his sons I will bring it on.

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

¹⁰ He will stoop and crouch at his tyrannising over the poor; ¹¹ For he said in his heart God hath forgotten; He hath turned his face from ever seeing.

⁴ them who say, "We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?" ⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor; because of the groans of the needy; now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set in safety and speak boldly.

¹ For the conclusion. Upon Maelath. Of understanding. By David. The fool said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves and are become abominable by iniquities, there is none who doeth good. ² God looked down from heaven on the children of men to see if any had understanding or were seeking God. ³ They had all turned aside: they are all together become vile. There is none doing good: no not one. ⁴ They will not bethink themselves, they are all working iniquity, they are eating up my people as they do bread? They have not called upon God.

¹³ A wicked progeny have lofty eyes and uplifted eyebrows. ¹⁴ A wicked progeny have teeth like swords and grinders like cleavers, so as to consume and devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

⁹ and commit murder, and adultery and steal and swear to a falsehood, and burn incense to Baal; and when you have gone after strange gods which you did not know; ¹⁰ you, because of your calamities, have then come and stood before me, in the house which is called by my name, and said, "We have been restrained from committing these abominations;" ¹¹ is not this house of mine, which is called by my name, become in your eyes a den of robbers? Now behold I have seen this, saith the Lord.

¹⁶ They were turned back to no purpose. They were like a bended bow. Let their chiefs fall by the sword for the folly of their tongue; let the derision they endured in the land of Egypt come into their bosoms like dirt, like an eagle darting upon the house of the Lord.

¹⁰ and more especially them who go after flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Being audacious, and self sufficient they tremble not when they revile glories;

¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error;

¹⁶ They are discontented mumurers, walking after their own lusts. Though their mouth speaketh swelling words, they hold persons in admiration for the sake of gain.

² Upon which Pharao said, Who is he, that I should hearken to his voice so as to send away the Israelites? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.

¹⁵ Now therefore let not Ezekias deceive you, nor cause you to trust in this manner. Do not believe him. For as there is no god of any nation or kingdom who is able to save his people out of my hand, or hath been able to save out of the hand of my fathers, therefore your God cannot save you out of my hand.

¹⁴ Yet he saith to the Lord, Depart from me, I desire not to know thy ways.

⁴ Thou hast loved all the decrees of destruction; a tongue practised in deceit.

¹⁵ Now therefore are you ready, when you hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sambuk and of the psaltery and symphony and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall prostrate and worship the golden image which I have made? For if you do not worship you shall, that very hour, be cast into the furnace of fire, which is heated. And what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?

²⁵ and shall speak words against the Most High and wear out the holy ones of the Most High and think of changing times and law, and his shall be put in its power for a time and times and the half of a time.

⁴ And for a while he would not. But afterwards he said within himself, Though I neither fear God, nor regard man,

⁶ Now, the tongue is a fire, the leader of iniquity; the tongue is set among the members, staining the whole body, and setting the wheel of nature in a blaze, when it is itself set in a blaze by hell.

⁶ And it opened its mouth for blasphemy against God, to slander his name and his tabernacle and them, who dwell in heaven.

⁸ For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, filled with mixed wine of horror; and out of this he hath poured into that: but the dregs of it are not emptied out; all the sinners of the land shall drink it.

¹³ Yes, thou hast said, How can the Almighty know? Can he judge in darkness? ¹⁴ A cloud is his covering, so that be cannot be seen, though he traverse the circuit of heaven.

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

²¹ for he knoweth the secrets of the heart?

⁹ They set their mouth against heaven; and their tongue passed on over the earth.

⁷ and said, The Lord cannot see, nor can the God of Jacob discern.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. LORD, thou hast proved me and known me. ² Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up. Thou from afar understandest my thoughts. ³ Thou has tracked my path and my line: and hast seen distinctly all my ways; ⁴ that there is not an evil word on my tongue. Behold thou, Lord, knowest all things; ⁵ the last and the things of earliest date. Thou hast formed me and laid thy hand on me. ⁶ This knowledge of thine is too wonderful for me. It is great beyond my comprehension.

¹² And he said to me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing, every one of them in this hidden apartment of theirs? For they said, The Lord doth not see. The Lord hath forsaken this land.

² that they may chime together like them who sing in unison. I remembered all their wickedness, now their own devices have encompassed them. They were all open to my view.

¹² Therefore it shall come to pass in that day, that I will search Jerusalem with a lamp, and execute vengeance on the men who are despisers; upon their stores. And as for them who say in their hearts, "The Lord will neither do good nor harm, "

³⁵ I have seen the wicked highly exalted, towering aloft like the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ Some put confidence in their power: and some boast of the abundance of their wealth.

⁷ "Behold the man who made not God his strength: and trusted in the abundance of his wealth; and strengthened himself in his vanity!

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression; nor eagerly covet plunder; if riches flow in, set not your heart on them.

¹⁷ and they shall devour your harvest and your bread; and they shall devour your sons and your daughters; and they shall devour your flocks and your herds; and they shall devour your vineyards and fig trees and olive orchards, and smite with the sword your fortified cities, in which you trusted.

⁷ As for Chanaan, in his hand is a deceitful balance. He loved to tyrannise. ⁸ Ephraim indeed said, "But I am rich, I have found a rest for myself." Because of the iniquities which he hath committed, none of his labours shall turn to account.

¹⁹ There was a certain rich man who was clad with purple and cotton robes, and who feasted daily in a splendid manner.

¹ Come, now, ye rich; weep, and raise a mournful cry for the miseries which are coming upon you. ² Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. ³ Your gold and your silver are covered with rust; and the rust of them will be a witness against you, and corrode your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days.

²⁷ Now if I say, Let me forget speaking, let me bow down my face and groan:

³¹ thou hast so thoroughly plunged me in filth that my very robes abhor me.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him: and what the advantage, that we should wait on him?

⁹ For thou shouldst not say, There shall be no visitation of man. He shall indeed have a visitation from the Lord.

³ Or wilt thou say, "What can I do if I sin?"

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence and go round thine altar, O Lord:

¹⁴ You say, "Vain is he who serveth God: and what advantage is it, that we have kept his charges. For though we have walked as supplicants before the Lord Almighty,

¹⁹ As we, therefore, brethren, have, by virtue of the blood of Jesus, free access to the holies 20 by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, his flesh;

²¹ and a great high priest over the house of God, ²² let us come with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure water.

³ Just so have I waited months in vain, and wearisome nights have been doled out to me. ⁴ When I lay me down to rest, I say, When will it be day? And soon as I rise; I again say, When will it be evening? I am full of pains from evening till morning;

¹⁸ Wilt thou keep a watch upon him till the morning. And judge him to the time of going to rest?

³ Is it agreeable to thee that I should commit iniquity; seeing thou hast rejected the works of thy hands; and favoured the counsel of the wicked?

¹⁷ Renewing the examination against me, thou hast exercised against me great wrath; and hast brought against me tortures.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord will deliver them.

¹² Happy the man, whom thou, O Lord wilt instruct; and whom thou wilt teach out of thy law;

¹⁸ Why do they who grieve me prevail over me? My wound is deep, how can I be healed? It is indeed become to me like deceitful water which cannot be trusted.

² "Of all the tribes of the earth, I acknowledge none but you. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.

⁵ And have you forgotten this exhortation which speaketh to us as to children, "My son slight not the correction of the Lord, Nor faint when reproved by him;

⁶ in whom you exult with joy though you are now for a little while, if it be necessary, distressed with divers trials;

²⁴ Do not so my sons; for the reports which I hear are not good, that the people cannot serve God.

⁵ They were seized with terror, where there was no fear; because God was among a righteous generation.

³⁰ My seed indeed will serve him: a generation which is coming shall be announced for the Lord:

⁶ Such is the generation of them who seek him; who seek the face of the God of Jacob.

⁸ but as for you, you have turned aside out of the way and weakened many by law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord Almighty,

⁶ But whoever shall occasion the stumbling of one of such little ones who believe in me, better were it for him that an upper millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were whelmed in the depth of the sea. ⁷ Alas, for the world because of these stumbling blocks, for these stumbling blocks must needs come: but alas for the man by whom the stumbling block cometh.

¹⁵ Now if on account of thy food thy brother is grieved, thou no longer walkest According to love. Destroy not by thy food him for whom Christ died.

²¹ It is good not to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor any thing by which thy brother falleth, or stumbleth, or is made weak.

¹¹ And shall the weak brother, for whom Christ died, be destroyed for thy knowledge? ¹² When you sin thus against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. ¹³ Wherefore if meat cause my brother to stumble, I will never eat flesh that I may not cause my brother to stumble.

⁹ but you being a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people peculiarly set apart that you may publish the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light

⁶ Thy saving goodness is like the mountains of God, and thy judgments like the vasty deep. Thou, O Lord, preservest men and beasts.

⁶ Man indeed walketh about as an image; still he troubleth himself in vain. He heapeth up treasures and knoweth not for whom he is to gather them.

¹⁹ Thy way was through the sea, and thy paths through many waters; but thy footsteps could not be known.

² A cloud and darkness are around him: justice and judgment are the basis of his throne.

² For I am the most foolish of all men. And I have not the understanding of man in me. ³ God hath taught me wisdom: and I have gained a knowledge of holy things.

¹⁷ therefore took a view of all the works of God in classes; for man is incapable of finding out the whole system of things under the sun. Let a man labour ever so much in the search he cannot find it out; and let a wise man say ever so much of knowing he cannot find it; for this cause I laid this whole system before my heart, and my heart took a view of it.

³² For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and insulted, and spit upon. ³³ And when they have scourged him, they will put him to death. And on the third day he will rise again. ³⁴ But they understood nothing of these things. This matter indeed was hid from them, so that they did not comprehend the meaning of what was spoken.

¹⁸ They said therefore, What is this little while of which he speaketh? We do not comprehend what he saith. ¹⁹ As Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, therefore he said to them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, because I said, A little while, and you do not see me; and again a little while and you shall see me?

³³ O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom, and of the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways not to be traced out!

⁸ Now whatever hope a wicked man hath, that he persisteth; shall he who hath trusted in the Lord be indeed safe?

⁴ One favour I have asked of the Lord; and this I will earnestly seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life; that I may contemplate the delight of the Lord; and visit his temple.

³⁷ Preserve innocence and eye rectitude; for there is a remnant for the man of peace. ³⁸ But transgressors shall be cut off together; the remnants of the wicked shall be rooted out.

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

¹³ God, thy way is in that which is holy; what God is great as our God?

²⁴ for thy testimonies are my study, thy statutes, my counsellors.

¹³⁰ The manifestation of thy words will enlighten, and make the simple wise.

¹² He who sinned continued thenceforward to do evil, even because of the forbearance shewn to them. Now as I know that it is good for them who fear God, that they should be awed by his presence; ¹³ and that it cannot be well with the wicked; and that he who is not awed by the presence of God cannot prolong his days at ease;

³¹ land. The prophets prophesy falsehoods, and the priests clapped with their hands, and my people loved to have it so. Now what will you do in regard to the consequences?

²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried. ²³ And in the mansion of the dead having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he seeth Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.

³⁵ In the day of vengeance I will requite, When their foot shall be supplanted. Because the day of destruction is nigh for them, Therefore at hand are the things prepared for you.

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, when the angel of the Lord is pursuing them.

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.

²⁴ When he happeneth to fall, he shall not fall with violence; for the Lord is a stay to his hand.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked highly exalted, towering aloft like the cedars of Lebanon. ³⁶ Again I passed by, and lo! he was gone. Though I sought him, his place could not be found.

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.

⁷ When the wicked sprang up like grass; all the workers of iniquity had a glimpse that they should be destroyed forever.

²³ He will make them retribution for their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God will utterly destroy them.

¹² let their way therefore be slippery and dark, that they may stumble and fall therein. For I will bring evils upon them in the year of their visitation.

⁹ These shall suffer punishment, an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty,

²¹ Separate yourselves from among this congregation, and I will consume them all at once.

¹² And when they had done so, the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we have been wasted, we have been destroyed, we have been cut off suddenly; ¹³ every one who toucheth the tabernacle of the Lord dieth. Must we all die?

²⁰ At this Saul shuddered, and fell at his full length on the ground, and was struck with horror at the words of Samuel, and there was no more any strength in him, fur he had not eaten bread that whole day, and that whole night.

²¹ yet the sound of terror is in his ears. When he seemeth to be at peace his destruction shall come.

¹¹ May surrounding sorrows destroy him, and many come round his foot in sore famine.

⁵ But the mirth of the wicked is sudden ruin, and the joy of transgressors, destruction,

²³ If by any means he be permitted to fill his belly; may he send against him fiery indignation, and pour upon him sorrows! ²⁴ Let him not escape from the edge of the sword! ²⁵ May the brasen bow wound him, and the dart pass through his body, and stars light on his dwellings!

⁹ Before your bramble bush can make its prickles felt; it will devour you as it were alive, as with wrath.

¹ The wicked fleeth when none pursueth: but the righteous is bold as a lion.

³ For this cause my loins are filled with fainting; pangs have seized me like a woman in travail. I did wrong not to hear; I shuddered so that I could not see. ⁴ My heart is bewildered, transgression overwhelmeth me. My soul is on the brink of despair.

¹³ therefore this sin shall be to you like the tottering wall of a fortified city, which hath been taken by surprise; the fall of which is instantaneous.

¹¹ but upon thee shall come destruction, and thou shalt not know; a pit; and into it thou shalt fall. Yes, upon thee shall come misery, of which thou shalt not be able to rid thyself: and destruction shall come upon thee suddenly of which thou wilt have no apprehension.

⁶ Whereupon the king's countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him and the joints of his loins were loosened and his knees smote one against another.

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.

³ For whilst they are saying, there is peace and safety, sudden destruction is then upon them, like the pangs of a woman in travail, and they cannot escape.

¹⁰ standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas! Alas! that great city Babylon! that 'mighty city! for in one hour thy judgment is come.

⁸ Like a dream which is gone, he cannot be found. He is vanished, like a spectre in the night.

⁶ Arise, Lord, in thine indignation: exalt thyself in the borders of mine enemies. Awake, Lord my God, in the judgment thou hast enjoined.

⁶⁵ At length the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, as a mighty man recovered from wine;

⁵ shall these trifling years of theirs be as if in the morning, a green herb passed away?

⁷ and the wealth of all the nations which encamped against Ariel, and all they who are warring against Jerusalem, and all who have been assembled against her, and those distressing her, shall be like one dreaming dreams by night: ⁸ and like men who in sleep are eating and drinking, but when they awake the dream is vain: even as a thirsty man dreameth that he drinketh, and when he waketh he is still athirst, his soul having trusted in a shadow: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, who have warred against mount Sion.

¹³ They surrounded me with javelins, darting them into my reins; without mercy they poured my gall on the ground.

³ for I envied the unrighteous; when I saw the prosperity of sinners.

¹³ He poured into my reins the darts of his quiver.

³ Why should we like beasts be silent before thee?

⁹ Be not like a horse or a mule, which have no understanding, the mouths of which, when they come not to thee, thou must strain with a bridle or a cavesson.

¹⁰ When he seeth the wise dying; together the foolish and senseless shall perish. And they shall leave their wealth to others,

⁵ Thou, O God, knowest my folly; and my trespasses are not hid from thee.

⁶ A senseless man cannot know; nor can the foolish comprehend them.

² For I am the most foolish of all men. And I have not the understanding of man in me.

¹⁸ I communed with my heart concerning a saying of the sons of men, "That God distinguisheth them." Now in order to shew that they themselves are beasts,

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel did not know me. And this people have not regarded me."

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless

⁸ I saw the Lord continually before me. Because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved;

⁴ For though I walk amidst the shades of death: I will fear no ills, because thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff have been my comfort.

¹⁷ For the arms of sinners shall be broken; but the Lord supporteth the righteous.

⁸ My soul hath kept close to thee: thy right hand hath supported me.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. LORD, thou hast proved me and known me. ² Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up. Thou from afar understandest my thoughts. ³ Thou has tracked my path and my line: and hast seen distinctly all my ways; ⁴ that there is not an evil word on my tongue. Behold thou, Lord, knowest all things; ⁵ the last and the things of earliest date. Thou hast formed me and laid thy hand on me. ⁶ This knowledge of thine is too wonderful for me. It is great beyond my comprehension. ⁷ Whither can I go from thy spirit? And from thy presence whither can I flee? ⁸ If I ascend up to heaven, thou art there. If I go down to the mansion of the dead, there thou art. ⁹ If I wing my flight towards the morning; or dwell at the extremes of this sea; ¹⁰ even there thy hand will guide me; and thy right hand will restrain me. ¹¹ When I said, Darkness will surely trample me down: then to my great joy, night was luminous. ¹² For darkness cannot darken from thee; even night can be made light as day: the darkness of that, as the light of this.

¹⁸ Were I to number them, they would surpass the sand. I have been raised up and am still with thee.

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; be not led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right hand.

¹³ For I am thy God, who have hold of thy right hand, and who say to thee,

¹ [J] JACOB is my servant, I will uphold him, Israel is my chosen one, my soul hath embraced him; I have put my spirit upon him; he will publish judgment to the nations. [[J] Jehovah, [p] the prophet]

²³ "The virgin shall conceive and bear a son and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel," the meaning of which is, God with us:

²⁰ teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And lo! I am with you all the days to the conclusion of this age. Amen.

⁵ Let your conduct be free from avarice. Be content with what you have; for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor will I ever forsake thee."

⁷ I will bless the Lord who hath given me understanding: even now at night my reins have instructed me.

⁹ he will guide the meek in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

⁸ Let me instruct thee and teach thee the way thou shouldst go. I will fix steadily mine eyes upon thee.

¹⁴ that he is our God forever and ever. He will tend us as a shepherd for evermore.

¹⁵ But God will redeem my soul from the power of that mansion when it receiveth me.

⁸ Cause me to hear thy kindness in the morning; for in thee I have placed my confidence. O Lord, let me know which way I shall go; for to thee I have lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies; for to thee I have fled for refuge. ¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God. Let thy good spirit lead me in the right way.

⁵ Trust in God with thy whole heart; and be not elated for thine own wisdom. ⁶ Shew it in all thy ways, that it may make thy paths straight.

²⁰ I walk in the ways of righteousness; and am conversant in the paths of judgment:

²¹ and thine ears will hear the words of the deceivers behind thee who say, This is the way let us walk in it, whether to the right or left;

¹⁷ Thus saith the Lord who hath redeemed thee, the Holy One of Israel, I am thy God. I pointed out to thee, how to find the way in which thou shouldst walk.

⁸ then shall thy light break forth like the morning, and thy remedies shall spring up speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lord will surround thee.

¹¹ and thy God will be with thee continually; and thou shalt be satisfied as thy soul desireth; and thy bones shall be made fat and be like a watered garden, and like a spring whose water never failed.

¹³ If you, then, bad as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children; how much more will your heavenly father give a holy spirit to them who ask him?

⁴⁶ and Jesus crying with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this he expired.

³ Now when I have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

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.

⁵ Now therefore, O Father, glorify thou me, with thyself, with that glory which I had in thy presence before the world was.

²⁴ O Father, with respect to them whom thou hast given me, my desire is that where I am, they may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

⁵⁹ and stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

¹ For we know that when the earthly house of this dwelling of ours is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.

⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him.

⁴ for an inheritance incorruptible, incapable of defilement or decay, reserved in heaven for us ⁵ who are, during belief, kept safely by the power of God, for a deliverance prepared to be revealed in the last time;

² I said to the Lord, Thou art my Lord: thou hast no need of my goods.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou art he who restoreth me mine inheritance.

¹¹ Thou hast made known to me the ways of life: thou with thy presence wilt fill me with joy. At thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

⁴ Indulge thyself with delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

¹ For the conclusion. On understanding. For the sons of Kore. As the hart panteth for fountains of water, so panteth my soul for thee, God. ² My soul hath thirsted for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

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.

³ Because thy kindness is better than life; my lips shall continually praise thee.

⁶ For who in heaven can be compared to the Lord? Or who among the sons of God, likened to the Lord?

³⁴ Let my meditation be acceptable to him, and I will rejoice in the Lord.

⁶ I spread forth my hands to thee; for thee my soul thirsted like land without water. ⁷ Hear me speedily, Lord; my spirit hath failed. Turn not away thy face from me; nor let me be like them who go down to the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear thy kindness in the morning; for in thee I have placed my confidence. O Lord, let me know which way I shall go; for to thee I have lifted up my soul.

⁸ for the way of the Lord is justice. We have trusted in thy name and in that remembrance ⁹ which is the desire of our soul by night. To thee, God, my spirit awaketh early, because thy statutes are a light on the earth. Learn righteousness ye dwellers on earth,

¹⁷ Since the fig tree will not flourish, nor will there be fruit on the vines; the product of the olive will fail and the fields will supply no food; For want of food the flocks have failed, and there are no kine in the stalls; ¹⁸ As for me, I will rejoice in the Lord; I shall have joy for God my saviour.

³⁷ He who loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me. And he who loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

⁸ nay more, I do therefore indeed count all things but refuse, on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have given up all and account them but dregs, that I may gain Christ

² Beloved, we are now children of God. Though it hath not yet been manifested what we shall be, yet we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him: that we shall see him as he is.

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.

²² And in it I saw no temple; for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is its temple. ²³ And the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to enlighten it; for the glory of God enlightened it; and the lamb is its lamp:

¹⁵ Though the Almighty, as he hath begun, may subdue me: yet I will speak and plead before him.

⁵ The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou art he who restoreth me mine inheritance. ⁶ The lines have fallen to me in the best places: for this inheritance of mine is the best for me.

² The Lord is my support, my refuge and my deliverer. My God is my helper, in him I will trust: my protector, the horn of my salvation and my defender.

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

¹² Because evils without number encompassed me; mine iniquities had overtaken me, therefore, I was notable to look up; they were multiplied above the hairs of my head, therefore my heart failed me.

¹ A Psalm by David, when he was in the wilderness of Idumea. O GOD, my God! to approach thee, I rise early. My soul thirsted for thee. For thee [I thirst] with all the vehement desire with which my flesh pines in a land, desert, trackless and without water.

² my soul longeth, it panteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh exulted for the living God.

⁵⁷ CHETH. Thou, Lord, art my portion; I have determined to keep thy law.

⁸¹ CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I trusted in thy words. ⁸² Mine eyes failed for thy promise, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

³ On the day when I invoke thee, answer me speedily: thou canst strengthen me in my soul with thy strength;

⁵ To thee, O Lord, I cried and said, Thou art my hope; my portion in the land of the living.

²⁹ He it is who giveth strength to the hungry and grief to them who have not had sorrow. ³⁰ For youths will hunger and young men be weary, and chosen warriors will become strengthless; 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.

²⁴ The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore I will wait for him.

⁸ we are pressed on every side, but not utterly crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹ persecuted, but not quite forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰ always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may be manifested in this body of ours.

¹⁶ For this cause we do not faint: nay though this outer man of ours is wasted, yet the inner is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For this momentary and light affliction of ours is working out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression, ¹⁸ while we are aiming not at things seen, but at things unseen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal.

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.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

⁶ For I am now about to be poured out as a libation; and the time of my departure is at hand. ⁷ I have maintained the good combat. I have finished the course; I have kept the faith. ⁸ As to what remaineth, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, not only to me, but to all who have loved his glorious appearance.

¹⁴ as I know that I must soon lay aside this tabernacle of mine, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath plainly shewed me;

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. ⁴ And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there shall no more be death; nor shall grief, nor screaming, nor pain be any more; for the former things are gone.

⁷ He who overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son:

¹⁵ Peradventure, shouldst thou make a covenant with those settled in that land, when they go a whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and invite thee thou mayst eat with them;

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

³⁹ defiled by their works: and they went a whoring with their devices.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from sinners, because they did not seek thy statutes.

¹³ The Lord hath indeed said, [J] "This people draw near to me with their mouth; and with their lips they honour me; but their heart is far from me: and in vain do they worship me, teaching the commands and doctrines of men:

² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.

⁷ Hypocrites! well did Esaias prophesy concerning you, saying, ⁸ This people draw near to me with their mouth; and with their lips they honour me, but their heart is far from me;

¹³ but now by Christ Jesus, you, who were formerly far off, are brought near by the blood of the Christ;

¹⁷ And being come he hath proclaimed the glad tidings of peace to you who were far off, and to them who were near.

⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses! do you not know that the friendship of this world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wisheth to be a friend of the world is adjudged an enemy of God.

¹ Then one of the seven angels who had the seven vials came to me and talked with me, saying to me, Come let me shew thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth on the many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ³ And he carried me away in spirit to a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast full of blasphemous names, which had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clad in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls; and she had in her hand a golden cup full of the abominations and impurity of her fornication; ⁵ and on her forehead there was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, the mother of the harlots and the abominations of the earth.

⁶ Have you despised the counsel of the poor; because his trust is in the Lord?

⁵ Many are thy wonders which thou, Lord my God, hast wrought; and for thy thoughts there is none to be compared to thee. I have declared and spoken. They are multiplied beyond computation.

⁴ Happy he, whom thou hast chosen and taken to thyself! He shall dwell in thy courts. Let us be satisfied with the good things of thy house: thy temple is holy.

¹⁶ Come, hearken, all ye who fear God, and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.

¹⁷ Thou, God, hast taught me from my youth: and thus far I can declare thy wonders;

²⁴ My tongue shall still talk of thy saving mercy all the day long, when they, who seek my hurt are shamed and confounded.

¹⁰ Because one day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be in an abject state in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

²² and let them offer him a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and publish his works with joy.

⁷ Return, my soul, to thy rest: for the Lord hath dealt kindly with thee.

¹⁷ I shall not die: but live and proclaim the works of the Lord.

²⁵ The Lord is gracious to them who wait for him for the soul, that will seek him, ²⁶ there is good; let it therefore wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

¹⁷ At length, coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, while I am perishing with hunger? ¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, ¹⁹ and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. ²⁰ Accordingly he arose and went to his father. But he keeping yet at a distance, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

¹⁸ Because Christ himself suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God: being indeed put to death in flesh, but brought to life by that spirit