Psalms 79 Cross References - Thomson

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD, nations are come into thine inheritance: they have polluted thy holy temple. They have made Jerusalem a depository for summer fruits. ² They have given the carcasses of thy servants to be meat for the birds of the air; the flesh of thy saints, to the wild beasts of the earth. ³ They have poured out their blood like water round Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. ⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbours; A scoff and a derision to them around us. ⁵ How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire forever? ⁶ Pour out thy wrath on the nations that have not acknowledged thee; and on kingdoms which have not invoked thy name. ⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste this place of his. ⁸ Remember not our former iniquities: let thy tender mercies overtake us speedily: as we are greatly distressed; ⁹ help us, God, our saviour: for thy glory of thy name deliver us; and pardon our sins for thy name's sake. ¹⁰ Perhaps they may say among the nations, Where is their God? Let therefore the avengement of the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed; be known among the nations in our sight. ¹¹ Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee. According to the mighty power of thine arm; protect the children of them who are slain. ¹² Retribute to these neighbours of ours; into their bosom seven fold; their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, Lord. ¹³ For we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture: to thee we will render thanks forever: we will proclaim thy praise to all generations.

¹⁷ Introduce and plant them on the mount of thy heritage in the settlement thou hast prepared for thy dwelling, Lord; The sanctuary, Lord, which thy hands have prepared.

¹² therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Behold I will bring evils upon Jerusalem and Juda, so that both the ears of every one who heareth them shall tingle. ¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achab; and wipe Jerusalem as a vessel of alabaster is wiped and turned on its mouth. ¹⁴ And I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall be for a spoil, and for a prey to all their enemies, ¹⁵ because they have done evil in my sight and gone on provoking me from the day I brought them out of Egypt, even to this day. ¹⁶ Moreover Manasses shed innocent blood in great abundance till he filled Jerusalem, from one end to the other, in addition to the sins by which he caused Juda to sin, by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 2Ki 21: Now the rest of the acts of Manasses and all that he did, and the sins which he committed are they not written in the journal of the kings of Juda?

¹³ and carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, according to the word of the Lord.

⁴ a breach was made into the city: and all the men of the army went out by night by the way of the gate between the walls, namely the gate of the king's garden, while the Chaldeans besieged the city round about. And the king took the way to Araba. ⁵ But the army of the Chaldeans pursued him and overtook him at Araboth of Jericho. When all his army was dispersed from about him, ⁶ they took the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Reblatha, and he pronounced sentence against him. ⁷ And when he had slain his sons before his eyes, he put out the eyes of Sedekias and bound him with chains, and carried him to Babylon. ⁸ And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, in the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, Nabuzardan the marshal who attended the king of Babylon, came up to Jerusalem ⁹ and burned the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. And while the marshal was burning all the houses ¹⁰ , the army of the Chaldeans broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

³ And the king carried him with him to Egypt, and imposed on the country a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. ⁴ And Pharao Nechao, made Eliakim son of Josias, king over Juda, in the room of his father, and changed his name to Joakim. And as Pharao Nechao took his brother Joachaz, who was carried to Egypt and died there, he paid the silver and the gold to Pharao. Then the land began to be taxed to give the money at the command of Pharao. And every one according to his rank, demanded silver and gold from the people of the land, to pay Pharao Nechao.

⁶ So Nabuchodonosar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and bound him with fetters of brass, and sent him away to Babylon; ⁷ and carried away to Babylon a part of the utensils belonging to the house of the Lord, and put them in his own temple at Babylon,

¹⁷ Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, and had no compassion on Sedekias, nor pity for their virgins. And they carried away their elders. He delivered all into their hands;

¹⁹ And he burned the house of the Lord, and demolished the wall of Jerusalem, and burned with fire the palaces thereof, and utterly destroyed every thing that was beautiful,

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. ³ Lift up thy hands against their perpetual haughtiness; for all that the enemy hath wickedly done in thy Holies. ⁴ They who hate thee have indeed triumphed: in the midst of thy festival they set up their own signs:

⁷ They burned thy sanctuary to the ground with fire: they profaned the habitation of thy name. ⁸ They said, The whole brood of them are in their heart set upon this: come, let us cause to cease from the land the festivals of the Lord.

⁷¹ he took them from tending the ewes with young to feed his servant Jacob and Israel his inheritance.

¹² Why hast thou broken down its hedge; that all who pass by the way, may pluck it? ¹³ The boar from the forest hath laid it waste; and a savage beast hath devoured it.

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

¹⁸ Michaias the Morasthite lived in the days of Ezekias king of Juda, and he said to all the people of Juda, "Thus said the Lord, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be a desolation; and the mountain of this house, a grove of a forest:"

⁸ [Omitted]

¹³ and burned the house of the Lord and the king's house. He burned also with fire all the public buildings of the city and every stately house.

¹⁰ On all the objects of her desire the oppressor hath laid his hand; for into her sanctuary she saw nations entering, concerning whom thou hast commanded that they should not come into thy congregation.

²⁰ With their choice apparel which was laid by for ostentation; even with this they adorned the images of their abominations; therefore I have given it to them for defilement; ²¹ even into the hand of strangers I will deliver it for plunder, and to be a spoil for the ravagers of the earth; and they shall defile it.

⁷ And he said to them, Defile this house and fill the ways with dead as you are going out and continue the slaughter.

¹² therefore because of you, Sion shall be ploughed like a field; and Jerusalem shall be like a temporary building for summer fruits; and the mountain of the house shall be for a grove of a forest.

²⁴ They shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captives to all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trampled down by nations until the times of nations shall be fulfilled.

² but leave out the court which is on the outside of the temple and measure it not; for it is given to the nations and they shall trample the holy city forty two months.

²⁶ and your dead carcasses be food for the birds of the air, and the wild beasts of the earth, and there be none to fray them away.

³³ And the carcasses of this people shall be for food for the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to scare them away.

³ For I will send against them four kinds of avengers, saith the Lord, the sword to slay; and the dogs to tear; and the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the air to devour and destroy.

⁴ by a direful death they shall die; they shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be for a spectacle on the face of the earth; they shall be for the wild beasts of the earth, and the birds of the air. By the sword they shall fall, and by famine they shall be consumed.

⁷ For I will slaughter the council of Juda and the council of Jerusalem in this place; And cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them who seek their lives. And I will give their carcasses to be meat for the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth,

²⁰ and the people themselves to their enemies: and their carcasses shall be meat for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth:

¹⁰ Perhaps they may say among the nations, Where is their God? Let therefore the avengement of the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed; be known among the nations in our sight.

⁷ As if a lump of earth was broken on the ground; our bones were scattered at the grave's mouth.

¹ At that time saith the Lord, they shall carry out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of his chiefs, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves; ² and expose them to the sun and moon and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven which they loved and served, and after which they went and to which they were attached, and to which they bowed down. They shall not be lamented nor buried; but shall be for a spectacle, on the face of the earth

¹⁶ And the people to whom they prophesy, with their wives and their sons and their daughters, shall, by reason of the sword and the famine, be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem; and there shall be none to bury them, when I pour out these evils on them.

³³ and the slain of the Lord shall be in the day of the Lord from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be buried. They shall be for dung on the face of the earth.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

³⁶ [As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long, And accounted as sheep for slaughter"

⁹ and some of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three days and a half and will not permit their dead bodies to be put in graves.

⁶ Because they poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, therefore thou hast given them blood to drink, for they deserve it.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her I expressed my astonishment with great amaze.

²⁴ And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and of all who were slain on the earth.

³⁷ and be there for a bye word, and a proverb, and a public example to all the nations to which the Lord shall bring thee.

⁷ I will assuredly remove Israel from the land which I gave them, and cast out of my sight this house which I have hallowed for my name; and Israel shall be a desolation and a bye word among all peoples;

¹⁹ But when Sanaballat the Aronite, and Tobia the servant the Ammonite and Gesem the Arab heard, they laughed at us, and came to us and said, What is this which you are doing? Are you going to rebel against the king?

¹ Now when Sanaballat heard that we were building the wall it appeared evil to him and he was much incensed, and railed against the Jews, ² and said before his brethren, Is the army of Somoron reduced to this, that these Jews are building their city? They are indeed offering sacrifice; but can they prevail? Can they heal the stones after being burned to a heap of dust? ³ Thereupon Tobias the Ammonite came near him and said to them, Can they either sacrifice or eat in that place of theirs? Cannot a fox go up and demolish their stone walls? ⁴ Hear, our God, how we are made a laughing stock, and turn their reproach back on their own head, and make them an object of derision in a land of captivity,

¹³ Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours; a scoff and derision to those around us. ¹⁴ Thou hast made us a by word among the nations; a shaking of the head among the tribes.

⁶ Thou hast made us a mocking stock to our neighbours: and our enemies have derided us.

⁴¹ All that pass by have plundered him: he is become a subject of reproach to his neighbours.

⁹ Them indeed I will devote to dispersion in all the kingdoms of the earth; and they shall be for a reproach and for a by-word and for a taunt and a curse in every place whither I shall drive them.

¹⁸ namely Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings of Juda, and his chiefs, to make them a desolation and a waste and an object of pity;

¹⁸ For thus said the Lord, As my wrath was poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured out upon you, if you go to Egypt; and you shall be wasted and made slaves, and be for an execration and reproach; and shall never see this land again.

¹⁵ All that passed by clapped their hands for thee, they expressed the sound of pity and shaked their heads for the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this, say they, the city, the crown of joy of the whole earth! ¹⁶ Against thee all thine enemies opened their mouth; they hissed and gnashed their teeth and said, We have swallowed her up; but this is the day we looked for; we have found it; we have seen it.

¹ Remember, Lord, what hath befallen us: look down

¹² and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard the sound of thy revilings; because thou saidst, "The waste mountains of Israel are given us to be devoured,

³ therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord, Lord, For as much as you have been despised and hated by them around you, by reason of your being a possession for the relics of nations; and you are become a byword and scoff to the nations:

¹⁵ And the revile of nations shall no more be heard against you, nor shall you any more bear the reproaches of peoples, saith the Lord, Lord.

¹⁶ Mercy, Lord, is thine in all things; let thy wrath, I beseech thee, be turned away and thine indignation from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain. Because we have sinned, therefore for our iniquities and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become an object of reproach among all those around us.

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

¹⁶ They exasperated me with strange gods, With their abominations they provoked me,

²² Since a fire is kindled because of my wrath, It shall burn down to the lowest Hades; It shall consume the land, and the products thereof; It shall set on fire the foundations of mountains:

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. How long, Lord, wilt thou forget me? For ever? How long wilt thou turn away thy face from me? ² How long shall I revolve counsels in my mind, and sorrows in my heart? For years? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

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

⁹ The signs peculiarly ours we do not see: there is no more a prophet; nor will he any more acknowledge us. ¹⁰ How long O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the adversary blaspheme thy name forever?

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

⁵ Be not angry with us forever. Wilt thou extend thy wrath to all generations?

⁴⁶ How long, Lord, wilt thou turn away? Shall thy wrath burn like fire forever?

⁹ he will not be angry to utter ruin, nor continue his wrath forever.

⁹ be not angry with us to the uttermost; nor remember forever our sins: but, O, look down now upon us; for we are all thy people.

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

¹⁸ Who is a God like unto thee, taking away iniquities, and passing by the transgressions of the remnant of his heritage? He hath not kept his anger in remembrance; because he delighteth in mercy;

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

⁸ [J] On that very account, wait thou for me, saith the Lord, until the day of my resurrection for a testimony. For this judgment of mine is for the assemblies of nations; to admit kings, to pour out all the fury of my wrath on them. For by the fire of my zeal all this land shall be utterly destroyed,

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O sovereign, the holy one and the true, dost thou defer judging and avenging our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?"

¹⁶ The Lord is known by executing judgments; by the works of his own hands the sinner is taken. ¹⁷ [17-20 A responsive Ode.] Let the sinners be turned back to the mansion of the dead; all the nations who forget God.

⁴ Will they all continue senseless? They are going on in a course of iniquity: they are eating up my people as they do bread: they have not called on the Lord.

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.

²⁴ Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful ire take hold of them.

¹⁸ The Lord is near to all who invoke him; to all that call upon him with truth.

¹ A vision which Esaias son of Amos saw respecting Babylon. ² [J] On a mount in the plain, erect a standard; raise the voice to them; beckon with the hand. Open princes! ³ it is I who command. It is I, who am leading these on. Giants are coming to execute my wrath, rejoicing and at the same time arrogant. ⁴ [p] A sound of many nations on the mountains! A tumultuous sound of many nations. A sound of kings and nations gathered together! the Lord of hosts hath issued orders to a nation trained for battle. ⁵ They are come from a far distant country; from the extreme butment of heaven; the Lord and his trained warriors, to destroy all that inhabited land. ⁶ Raise the mournful cry! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and destruction from God will come: ⁷ therefore every hand shall be enfeebled; and every man's heart shall be dismayed. ⁸ The men in power shall be confounded; and pangs shall seize them, like those of a woman in travail. And they shall bewail their calamities, one to another, and be amazed; and their countenances will quiver like a flame. ⁹ For behold the remediless day of the Lord is coming; a day of wrath and indignation, to make the empire a desolation; and to destroy the sinners out of it. ¹⁰ For the stars of heaven; even Orion and the whole host of heaven, shall not give light; even that of the rising sun shall be darkened; and the moon shall not give her light. ¹¹ [[J] Jehovah, [p] the prophet.} [J] I will indeed order evils for the whole empire, and on the wicked their transgressions; and destroy the arrogance of the wicked; and humble the haughtiness of the proud; ¹² so that those left shall be more precious than tried gold and a man more precious than the ore of Souphir. ¹³ For the heaven shall be filled with wrath; and the earth shaken from its foundations; at the fierce anger of the Lord of Hosts, on the day when his wrath shall come: ¹⁴ and those left shall be like a chased roe and wandering sheep; and there shall be none to collect them together; so that they may return every man to his place, when every one shall be seeking his own country. ¹⁵ For whoever is overtaken shall be thrust through and those collected in a body shall fall by the sword. ¹⁶ And their infants shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; and their houses shall be plundered and their wives ravished. ¹⁷ Behold I am raising up against you the Medes, who disregard silver and have no need of gold. ¹⁸ They shall break the bows of the young men, and on your infants they will have no compassion; nor will their eyes spare thee for thy children. ¹⁹ And Babylon, which is stiled Glorious, by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra. ²⁰ It shall not be inhabited for a great length of time, nor shall it be entered for many generations. The Arabians shall not pass through it; nor shall shepherds make their folds therein. ²¹ But wild beasts shall there go to rest; and the houses shall be filled with howling. There jackals shall make their abode; and there demons shall hold their revels. ²² And onocentaurs shall inhabit there; and porcupines shall breed in the houses. [p] He is coming quickly and will not tarry,

¹ The vision of the Desert. As, when a whirlwind having passed through a desert, is rushing out of a desert, the sight from the land is terrible; ² this vision being also dreadful, was revealed to me. The treacherous dealeth treacherously; the transgressor transgresseth; the Elamites are upon me; and the elders of the Persians are coming against me. Am I now to groan and comfort myself? 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. ⁵ Prepare the table. Eat, drink ye chiefs. Having arisen prepare shields. ⁶ Because thus the Lord said to me, "Go set a watchman for thyself and proclaim what thou seest." ⁷ Thereupon I beheld a chariot with two riders, and a rider on an ass and a rider on a camel. ⁸ "Listen with the utmost attention, "said the Lord, "and call A fair breeze to the watch tower" I have kept my station all the day long, and by the camp I have stood the whole night; ⁹ and behold here cometh a man riding in a chariot, and addressing me he said, "It is fallen! Babylon is fallen! and all her images, and all the works of her hands are dashed on the ground." ¹⁰ Hear this ye who have been forsaken! and ye, who have been sorely grieved, hear what I have heard from the Lord of Hosts: what the God of Israel hath announced to us. ¹¹ The vision concerning Idumea. TO me one calleth from Seir, "Guard ye the fortifications, " ¹² I keep watch morning and night. If thou wouldst inquire; inquire and dwell near me. ¹³ Thou mayst go to rest in the western forest, or in the way to Dedan. ¹⁴ inhabitants of the country of Thaiman, bring out water to meet the thirsty; ¹⁵ meet with bread them who are fleeing, because of the multitude of the slain; and because of the multitude of dispersed: and because of the multitude of swords; and because of the multitude of bended bows; and because of the multitude of them who have fallen in battle. ¹⁶ For thus hath the Lord said to me, "Within a year, according to the year of an hireling, the glory of the children of Kedar shall fail; ¹⁷ and the remnant of the mighty bowmen of Kedar shall be small. For the Lord God of Israel hath spoken."

¹ The Oracle concerning Tyre. Raise the mournful cry, ships of Carthage, for Tyre is destroyed and there are no arrivals from the land of the Kitians. She is carried away captive. ² Who could be compared with the dwellers in this island; these merchants of Phoenicia, who traversed the ocean; ³ this offspring of merchants on many a water, who made a traffick of nations as of an ingathered harvest? ⁴ Be ashamed, Sidon, said the sea; even the strength of the sea said, "I did not travail nor did I bring her forth; nor did I nourish her youths, nor educate her virgins; ⁵ yet when the news shall reach Egypt, sorrow for Tyre will take hold on them." ⁶ Away to Carthage! Raise the mournful cry, ye who inhabit that isle! ⁷ Was not she your boast of old, before she was delivered up?" ⁸ Who hath taken this counsel against the Tyrians? Is she inferior? Or hath she not power? Her merchants are glorious chiefs of the earth." ⁹ The Lord of Hosts hath determined to destroy all the haughtiness of the glorious; and to bring to contempt every thing glorious on the earth. ¹⁰ work thy land: for ships no more arrive from Carthage, ¹¹ nor is thy hand which vexed kings, any more powerful by sea. The Lord of Hosts hath given a command, concerning Chanaan, to destroy its power: ¹² and shall it be said, You must not proceed to insult and distress the daughter of Sidon? Nay though thou shouldst go to the Kitians; yet even there thou shalt not have rest. ¹³ Away to the land of the Chaldeans, though it hath been wasted by the Assyrians; because its walls had fallen. ¹⁴ Raise the mournful cry, ships of Carthage, because your strong hold is destroyed. ¹⁵ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forsaken seventy years, according to the days of a king, according to the time of a man. And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot. ¹⁶ Take a kithara, stroll about, city, O harlot long forgotten! Play skilfully; sing many songs, that thou mayst be remembered. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass after seventy years, that God will take account of Tyre, and she shall be restored to her former state, and be a mart for all the kingdoms of the World; which are on the face of the earth. ¹⁸ And her traffick and gain shall be holy to the Lord. All her gain shall not be treasured up for themselves, but for them who dwell before the Lord, that they may eat and drink and be filled, and for contributions to be kept in remembrance before the Lord.

²⁵ hath not he brought upon them his fierce anger? [J] Though war prevailed over them, and they who were burning them up were all around, yet they did not, any of them know, nor lay it to heart.

⁴ For the sake of my servant Jacob, and of Israel my chosen one, I will call thee by thy name and receive thee kindly. As for thee, thou didst not know me. ⁵ Because I am the Lord God and there is no God else besides me; I strengthened thee when thou didst not know me;

²⁵ Pour out thy wrath on the nations that knew thee not, and on the families which have not invoked thy name. Because they have devoured Jacob and consumed him, and have made his pasture a desolation.

²⁹ for in the city which is called by my name I am beginning to inflict calamity and with purification you shall not be purified; for I am calling for a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth.

¹ [Omitted] ² To Egypt, respecting the army of Pharao Nechao, king of Egypt, who was by the river Euphrates, at Charmis, whom Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon defeated, in the fourth year of Joakim king of Juda. ³ Arm with buckler and shields, and advance to battle. ⁴ Harness the horses. Horsemen mount! and stand firm in your helmets. Having put on your breast plates, charge with your lances. ⁵ Why are they daunted, and falling back? Because their mighty men will be cut down, they fled amain; they rallied not, being hemmed in on all sides, saith the Lord. ⁶ Let not the swift flee, nor the mighty escape to the north. The forces at the river Euphrates are weak and have fallen. ⁷ Who is this that will rush forth like the river, and whose stream will billow like a flood? ⁸ The waters of Egypt will rush forth like a river: for he said, "I will issue forth and overwhelm the earth, and destroy the inhabitants thereof. ⁹ Mount your horses, prepare your chariots: march forth ye warriors of Ethiopia! and ye Libyans well clad in armour! go up also ye Lydians who bend the bow." ¹⁰ [p] This is indeed a day for the Lord our God: a day of vengeance, to execute vengeance on his enemies. And the sword of the Lord shall devour and be filled; it shall indeed be glutted with their blood; for there is a sacrifice for the Lord in the land of the north at the river Euphrates. ¹¹ Go up, Galaad, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain hast thou multiplied thy medicines; there is no cure for thee. ¹² The nations heard thy voice and with thy screams the land was filled: because warrior added to warrior were weak, they both fell together. ¹³ The words which the Lord spoke by the ministry of Jeremias, that the King of Babylon would come and smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ Despatch messengers to Magdolus; send also to Memphis. Say, to arms! and be ready! for a sword hath laid waste thy grove. ¹⁵ Why did Apis flee from thee? Thy chosen bull, why did he not stand? ¹⁶ because the Lord made him weak and thy multitude was weak and fell. Therefore every one said to his fellow, Let us arise and return to our people, to our native land, from the face of the Grecian sword. ¹⁷ Call the name of Pharao Nechao king of Egypt, "Saon-Esbie-Moed." [Meaning an Empty sound] ¹⁸ As I live, saith the Lord God, like Itaburion among the mountains, and like Channel which is by the sea he shall come. Get ready utensils for thy removal, ¹⁹ well housed daughter of Egypt! for Memphis shall be a waste and shall be called, "Alas" because in it there are no inhabitants. ²⁰ Egypt was a beautiful heifer; a detachment from the north came against her. ²¹ And the mercenaries, which she had with her, were like fatted bulls which she had fed. For they turned and fled with one consent: they made no stand, because the day of destruction came upon them and the time of their visitation. ²² Their sound is that of a hissing serpent; for they march in dust. With axes they will come against her; ²³ like fellers of timber they will cut down her groves, saith the Lord. Because she would not be assimilated. Because she increaseth more than locusts which are innumerable; ²⁴ the daughter of Egypt is put to shame: she is delivered into the hands of a people from the north. ²⁵ Behold I will punish her son Ammon in the person of Pharao, and in the persons of them who trusted in him. ²⁶ [Omitted] ²⁷ But thou Jacob my servant be not afraid; and thou Israel be not dismayed. For behold I will save thee from afar and thy seed from their captivity. And Jacob shall return and enjoy rest and sleep; and there shall be none to discompose him. ²⁸ Fear not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, since I am with thee. This fearless and luxurious one is delivered up, for I will make an end of every nation to which I have driven thee; But of thee I will not make an entire end. But I will correct thee for judgment and not suffer thee to go unpunished.

³ And these things they will do to you because they know neither the Father nor me.

²⁵ Righteous Father, though the world did not know thee, I knew thee, and these have known that thou didst send me.

²³ For as I passed along and beheld the objects and instruments of your devotion, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Him, therefore whom you worship without knowing him, I announce to you.

²⁸ And as they did not search out God to have constantly a due sense of him, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things unseemly,

¹² For there is no distinction of Jew and Greek; for he is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call upon him; ¹³ "For whosoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." ¹⁴ How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a proclaimer?

² to the congregation of God which is at Corinth; to them who are hallowed by Christ Jesus; called to be holy, together with all those in every place who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

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.

¹ And I heard a loud voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the vials of the wrath of God on the earth. ² And the first angel went and poured out his vial on the earth; and there came a malignant and grievous ulcer upon the men, who had the mark of the beast, and on them who worshipped its image. ³ And the second angel poured out his vial on the sea, and it became as the blood of one dead; and every living creature in the sea died. ⁴ And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; and they became blood. ⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou, O Lord, who art and who wast and who art to come, because thou hast passed these judgments. ⁶ Because they poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, therefore thou hast given them blood to drink, for they deserve it. ⁷ And I heard another from the altar, saying, Yes, Lord, God, Almighty, thy judgments are true and righteous. ⁸ And the fourth angel poured out his vial on the sun; and power was given to it to scorch men with fire. ⁹ And the men were scorched with great heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who hath power over these plagues and did not reform to give glory to him. ¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his vial on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was darkened; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, ¹¹ and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain, and because of their ulcers, and did not reform from their works. ¹² And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the river the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun. ¹³ And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. ¹⁴ For these are spirits of demons making signs which go forth to the kings of the earth and the whole world, to gather them together to the battle of the great day of God the Almighty. ¹⁵ [Behold my coming is as a thief [cometh]: Happy he who watcheth and keepeth his garments that he may not walk naked and expose his shame.] ¹⁶ And when he had gathered them together to the place which is called in Hebrew Armageddon ¹⁷ then the seventh angel poured out his vial in the air: and there came a loud voice out of the temple in heaven from the throne saying, It is done. ¹⁸ And there were noises and thunders and lightnings and there was a great earthquake, such, that there had not been since men were on the earth such an extensive, so great a shock. ¹⁹ And the great city was divided into three parts; and the cities of the nations fell; and Babylon the great came into remembrance before God "to give her the cup of the venemous wine of his indignation; ²⁰ and every island fled; and mountains were not found; ²¹ and great hail like talent weights pour down from heaven on the men; and the men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of the hail was very great.

²¹ that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, That until the land received its sabbaths which it ought to have rested, it should keep a sabbath all the days of its desolation, to the completion of seventy years.

¹³ The boar from the forest hath laid it waste; and a savage beast hath devoured it.

¹² Syria in the east, and the Greeks in the west, who are devouring Israel with open mouth; for all this his anger is not turned away, but still his hand is lifted high.

¹ Behold the Lord is about to destroy this inhabited land! He will lay it waste and uncover the face thereof and scatter abroad them who dwell therein. ² And it shall be as with the people so with the priest; as with the servant, so with the master; as with the maid, so with the mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the debtor, so with the creditor. ³ With destruction the land will be destroyed, and with spoiling this land will be ransacked: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken this. ⁴ The land mourned and this empire is destroyed; the lofty people of the land mourned. ⁵ As for the land, it transgressed by means of its inhabitants. Because they transgressed the law, and changed the institutions; the everlasting covenant, ⁶ therefore a curse devoureth the land. Because they who dwell therein have sinned, therefore the inhabitants of the land shall be distressed, and few are the men who shall be left. ⁷ The wine will mourn, the vineyard will mourn, and all that were merry hearted will sigh. ⁸ The mirth of the tabrets hath ceased, the sound of the kithara is no more. ⁹ They are confounded: they have drunk no wine. The palm wine was bitter to them who drank it. ¹⁰ Every city is desolated: the houses will be shut up that none may enter. ¹¹ Raise the mournful cry every where for the wine. A stop is put to all the joy of the land; all the joy of the land is gone. ¹² The cities will be left desolate, and the houses being forsaken will be destroyed.

¹⁰ The city of thy sanctuary is become a desert: Sion is become like a desert; Jerusalem, for a curse. ¹¹ The house, our sanctuary; even that glory which our fathers blessed, is utterly burnt up with fire, and all our glorious things are in ruins;

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

³⁵ [p] Let the inhabitants of Sion say, My troubles and my miseries be upon Babylon! and let Jerusalem say, My blood be upon the Chaldean inhabitants!

¹⁵ and with great wrath I am angry with the nations who were set on. Because I was indeed a little displeased, but they were bent on mischief;

¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall be brought back hither. For the sins of the Amorites have not yet come to the full.

³⁴ Now therefore go thy way; go down and lead this people to the place which I commanded thee. Behold my angel will go before thee but on the day when I visit I will bring upon them this sin of theirs.

⁴³ The stranger who is with thee shall rise higher and higher; but thou shalt fall lower and lower.

¹⁸ Upon which she said to Elias, What hast thou to do with me, man of God? Art thou come to me to bring my sins into remembrance and cause my son to die?

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

⁷ Remember not the sins and follies of my youth; according to thy mercy remember me, Lord, for thy goodness sake.

¹⁶ Hear me, Lord, for thy loving kindness is good; according to thine abundant mercy, look down upon me. ¹⁷ Turn not away thy face from thy servant; because I am in distress, hear me speedily.

⁴³ many a time did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel. When they were humbled for their iniquities;

⁶ The Lord preserveth the sincere: I was brought low but he saved me.

³ Shouldst thou, Lord, mark iniquities; Lord, who can subsist?

⁶ Attend to my supplication; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

³ Son of man, I am about to send thee to the house of Israel, to them who are provoking me; who have provoked me, both they and their fathers even to this day.

¹³ For what purpose soever they offer sacrifices and eat flesh, the Lord will not accept them; he will now remember their iniquities and punish their sins. They turned back to Egypt, therefore among the Assyrians they shall eat unclean things.

⁹ they were corrupt as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.

³² As for you then, fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents! brood of vipers! how can you escape the punishment of hell? ³⁴ For this, behold I am about to send you prophets, wise men and Scribes: and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say to you, All these things will come upon this generation.

⁵ Because her sins have reached to heaven and God hath remembered her acts of injustice,

⁹ When the Chananite, and all the inhabitants of this land hear this, they will encompass us, and drive us from this land. What then wilt thou do in respect to thy great name?

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.

¹¹ For the sake of thy name therefore, Lord, pardon this sin of mine, for it is manifold;

³ Because thou art my strength and my refuge; thou therefore, for thy name's sake, wilt guide and nourish me:

³ The acts of transgressors prevailed over us: but thou canst pardon our sins.

¹ Not unto us, Lord; not unto us. But to thy name only give the glory: for thy mercy and for thy truth.

²⁵ I even I, THE I AM, am he who blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake; and of thy sins I will no more make mention:

⁹ For mine own name's sake I will shew thee my wrath, and bring upon thee my marvellous things; that I may not cut thee off utterly.

⁷ Our sins have risen up against us. O Lord, deal with us for Thine own sake: for our sins are many in Thy sight; for we have sinned against Thee.

²¹ O be appeased for Thy name's sake. Destroy not the throne of Thy glory; remember, O dissolve not Thy covenant with us.

⁹ but that my name might not be altogether profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were, I did in their sight [those miracles] by which I was made known to them, in order to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ But I acted so that my name should not be altogether profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them out:

⁹ with the Lord our God are tender mercies and forgivenesses. Because we apostatised

¹⁹ O Lord hear! O Lord, be appeased! Attend, Lord! Defer not, my God, for thine own sake! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

² If you will not hearken and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord Almighty, I will send that curse against you and curse your blessing. I will curse it; and disperse your blessing and it shall not be among you because you do not lay this to heart.

⁶ for the praise of the glory of that favour of his with which he made us objects of favour in the Beloved;

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

⁵ And all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I lay my hand on Egypt and bring the children of Israel out from among them.

¹⁶ The Lord is known by executing judgments; by the works of his own hands the sinner is taken.

³ My tears were my food day and night, when they said to me continually, Where is thy God?

¹⁰ When my bones were bruised, mine enemies reproached me, by their saying to me every day, Where is thy God.

¹¹ And man will say, Since there is indeed a reward for the righteous, there is a God who judgeth those on the earth.

¹⁷ Let them be shamed and troubled forever: let them be put to confusion and perish: ¹⁸ and let them know that thy name is the Lord; that thou alone art the Most High over all the earth.

¹ A Psalm by David for the fourth day of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance, the God of vengeance hath given solemn warning.

² Perhaps the nations may say, Where is their God?

³⁵ [p] Let the inhabitants of Sion say, My troubles and my miseries be upon Babylon! and let Jerusalem say, My blood be upon the Chaldean inhabitants!

²³ For I will hallow my great name which hath been profaned, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, when I am hallowed by you before their eyes.

²¹ I will indeed display my glory among you, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have executed, and my hand which I have brought upon them. ²² And the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from this particular time and thence forward.

¹⁷ At the foot of the altar, let the priests who minister to the Lord, weep, and say, Spare, Lord, thy people; and give not up thy heritage to reproach; for the nations to rule over them. That they may not say among the nations, "Where is their God?"

¹⁰ and shame shall cover her who saith, "Where is thy God?" Mine eyes shall see her. She shall now be trodden down like dirt in the streets.

¹⁹ Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to the wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will requite, saith the Lord."

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

²³ And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outcry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to God. ²⁴ And God heard their groans. And God remembered his covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaak and Jacob.

¹⁷ Now therefore let thy power, Lord, be exalted. As thou hast spoken, saying, ¹⁸ "The Lord is long suffering, abundant in mercy and true, taking away iniquities, transgressions and sins; and, when he will not by purification clear the guilty, retributing the sins of fathers on children to the third and fourth generation," ¹⁹ forgive the sin of this people according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been gracious to them from Egypt even to this time.

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.

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

²⁰ to hear the groaning of the prisoners; to set free the sons of them who were slain;

⁶ who made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all the things in them; ⁷ who keepeth truth forever, executing judgment for the aggrieved, giving food to the hungry.

² [c] O Lord, have mercy upon us! for in thee we have placed our trust. The seed of the rebellious were for destruction: but thou wast our safety in the time of trouble.

⁷ to open the eyes of the blind; to lead out from chains them who are bound, and out of prison, them who are sitting in darkness.

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

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

¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, "Not so. Whosoever killeth Cain shall suffer seven fold vengeance." And the Lord God gave a sign to Cain, that whoever found him would not kill him.

²¹ And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven fold plagues upon you according to your sins;

²⁸ I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you seven fold, according to your sins.

¹⁶ because of a reproacher's and a defamer's voice; and by reason of an enemy and an avenger.

¹⁰ How long O God, shall the enemy reproach? Shall the adversary blaspheme thy name forever?

¹⁸ Remember this creation of thine. An enemy hath reproached the Lord; a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. ¹⁹ Deliver not up to the wild beasts a soul which praiseth thee. Forget not forever the souls of thy afflicted people. ²⁰ Have respect to thy covenant, because the dark places of this land have been filled with habitations of iniquity; ²¹ let not him who hath been humbled and shamed be utterly scorned: let the afflicted and needy praise thy name. ²² Arise, God, plead thine own cause: remember the reproaches cast on thee, all day long, by a fool.

³¹ but if he be caught, he is to pay seven fold; and by giving all that he hath, he will deliver himself.

⁵ yet they say, "Keep at a distance from me; come not near me, for I am clean." This is a smoke which causeth my wrath; a fire is kindled by it every day. ⁶ Behold it is written before me: I will not keep silence, until I have retributed into their bosom ⁷ their sins; and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord. They have burned incense on the mounts, and treated me with scorn on the hills, I will retribute their works into their bosom.

¹⁸ Thou shewest mercy to thousands and retributest the sins of fathers into the bosoms of their children after them.

³⁸ Give; and to you will be given; into your lap there shall be given good measure, pressed down and shaken and running over. For with the same measure with which you mete to others, you shall have measure returned to you.

⁸ In God let us boast, all the day long: and to thy name give thanks forever.

¹⁷ They shall cause thy name to be remembered in all ages, therefore nations shall praise thee forever.

¹⁸ Remember this creation of thine. An enemy hath reproached the Lord; a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

²² Arise, God, plead thine own cause: remember the reproaches cast on thee, all day long, by a fool.

⁷ Because he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the flock of his hand;

³ Know that the Lord is very God: he made us and not we ourselves: we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

⁴ Let generation after generation praise thy works, and proclaim thy mighty power:

²¹ my people whom I have preserved to recount my praises.