Psalms 94 Cross References - Thomson

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 Exalt thyself, O thou judge of the earth; render a retribution to the proud. ³ How long shall sinners, O Lord; how long shall sinners boast? ⁴ Shall they declaim and utter injustice? Shall all the workers of iniquity speak? ⁵ They have oppressed thy people, O Lord: and afflicted thine inheritance. ⁶ They have slain the widow and orphan: they have murdered the stranger, ⁷ and said, The Lord cannot see, nor can the God of Jacob discern. ⁸ Consider I beseech you, ye brutish among the people. And ye fools, at length be wise. ⁹ Doth not he, who hath planted the ear, hear? And doth not he who formed the eye, see? ¹⁰ Will not he, who chastiseth nations, reprove? He who teacheth man knowledge? ¹¹ The Lord knoweth the thoughts of these men, that they are vain. ¹² Happy the man, whom thou, O Lord wilt instruct; and whom thou wilt teach out of thy law; ¹³ in order to set him at ease from evil days; until a pit be dug for the sinner. ¹⁴ For the Lord will not cast off his people; nor will he forsake his inheritance; ¹⁵ till justice return to judgment; and all the upright in heart be in her train. ¹⁶ Who will stand up for me against evil doers? Or who will assist me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷ Had not the Lord indeed come to mine assistance; my soul would soon have sojourned in the mansion of the dead. ¹⁸ Did I say, My foot hath slipped? Thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me. ¹⁹ O Lord, according to the multitude of the sorrows of my heart; thy comforts delighted my soul. ²⁰ Shall a throne of iniquity; shall he who frameth mischief for law, have fellowship with thee? ²¹ Shall they hunt for the soul of the righteous? And shall they condemn innocent blood? ²² The Lord indeed was my refuge: my God was the support of my hope. ²³ He will make them retribution for their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God will utterly destroy them.

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.

⁴¹ I will make my sword sharp as lightning, And my hand will support judgment; And I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, And make retribution to them who hate me. ⁴² I will make my arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh With the blood of slain and captives. From the head of enemy chiefs.

² Out of Sion the perfection of his comeliness;

¹ For the conclusion. Respecting them who are to be changed. A testimony. By Asaph. A Psalm respecting the Assyrian. Give ear, O shepherd of Israel! Who leadest Joseph like a flock; thou who art enthroned on the cherubim;

⁴ Take comfort ye who are faint hearted; take courage, be not terrified; behold our God retributeth judgment; he will indeed make retribution; he himself will come and save us.

¹⁷ And he put on righteousness as a breast plate, and placed on his head the helmet of salvation, and threw around him the mantle of vengeance; and his cloak,

²⁸ Hark! a sound of men fleeing and escaping out of the land of Babylon to inform Sion of the vengeance of the Lord our God.

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

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

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.

³⁰ For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will requite, saith the Lord;" and, again, "The Lord will judge his people."

²⁵ Thou canst not do such a thing as this to slay the righteous with the wicked. Shall the righteous be as the wicked? No, no; Thou who judgest the whole earth; wilt not thou execute judgment?

¹¹ and send forth angels in wrath, and humble everyone who is insolent. ¹² Extinguish also the haughty, and turn the wicked into instant corruption.

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

²³ Love the Lord, all ye his saints, for the Lord searcheth out truth, and retributeth largely to the insolent.

⁶ and let the heavens declare his righteousness. "Because God is judge,

¹ For the conclusion. By David. A Psalm of an Ode. Let God arise and his enemies be scattered; and let them who hate him flee before him.

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

¹¹ "For the eyes of the Lord are lofty; but man is low; and the loftiness of these men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts is against every scorner and haughty man; and against every one high and lofty, and they shall be humbled:

¹⁷ [[J] Jehovah] and every man shall be humbled; and the haughtiness of these men shall fall; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

¹² But it shall come to pass, when the Lord hath accomplished his whole work on mount Sion and Jerusalem; that I will cast a look on the stout heart; on the chief ruler of the Assyrians, and on the loftiness of the glory of his eyes.

²³ whom hast thou reproached and provoked? Or against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, [without lifting up thine eye to the Holy One of Israel?]

²⁹ and thy bitterness are come up to me; I will therefore put a hook in thy nose and a bridle in thy jaws; and turn thee back by the way in which thou camest."

³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive. ³⁷ And as he was Worshipping, in his house, Nasarach his ancestor; Adramelech and Sarousar his sons smote him with their swords; and, they having made their escape to Armenia, Asardan his son reigned in his stead.

³¹ Behold I am against thee, thou essence of haughtiness, saith the Lord. Because thy day is come and the time of thy punishment; ³² therefore thy haughtiness shall be abated and fall, and none shall continue to support it. For I will kindle a fire in her forest, which shall devour all around her.

³⁷ Now therefore I Nabuchodonosar praise and extol and glorify the king of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are judgments and all them who walk in pride he can abase.

²² Now thou, Baltasar, his son, hast not therefore humbled thy heart before this God. Hast thou not known all these things? ²³ Yet thou hast exalted thyself against the Lord God of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles and thy concubines and thy wives have drunk wine out of them, and thou hast praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood and stone which neither see nor hear, nor understand: but the God in whose hand is thy breath and all thy ways; him thou hast not glorified. ²⁴ For this cause a joint of a hand hath been sent from his presence, and it hath sketched this writing.

⁹ Thy hand shall be raised up against them who afflict thee; and all thine enemies shall be utterly cut off.

²² For the Father judgeth no one, but hath committed the whole act of judging to his Son, ²³ that all may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son, doth not honour the Father, who sent him.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of the Christ, that every one may receive according to what he hath done in this bodily state, whether good or evil.

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;"

⁶ render to her as she hath rendered to you and requite her double according to her works. In the cup in which she mingled, mingle for her a double portion. ⁷ In proportion to her ostentation and luxury inflict on her torment and grief. Because she saith in her heart, I am enthroned a queen and am not a widow, and shall not see sorrow; ⁸ therefore in one day these calamities shall come upon her, pestilence and sorrow and famine; and she shall be consumed with fire; for the Lord God who judgeth her is mighty.

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, ¹² the queen, said he, invited none to the banquet with the king, but only me: and to-morrow I am invited:

⁶ And the king said to Haman, What shall I do to the man whom I wish to honour? Upon this Haman said to himself, Whom doth the king wish to honour but me? ⁷ So he said to the king, With regard to the man whom the king wisheth to honour, ⁸ Let the king's servants bring out the royal robes with which the king is arrayed, and the horse on which the king rideth, and give them to one of the most honourable of the king's friends, ⁹ and let him array the man whom the king loveth, and mount him on the horse, and make proclamation through the street of the city saying, Thus shall it be done to every man whom the king honoureth. ¹⁰ Then the king said to Haman, Thou hast spoken well, Do thou so to Mordecai the Jew, who is an attendant in the court. Let nothing be omitted of what thou hast spoken.

⁶ To which Esther replied, The adversary is Haman, this bad man. At this Haman was struck with consternation for fear of the king and the queen.

¹⁰ So Haman was hanged on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's anger was appeased.

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

² Since thou, God, art my strength, why hast thou cast me off? and why go I mourning, because of mine enemy's oppression?

⁸ They thought and spoke wickedly; they spoke injustice with a lofty air.

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?

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

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

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

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.

⁶ [c] How long wilt thou hew down, sword of the Lord? How long will it be ere thou wilt rest? Return into thy scabbard, rest and be removed.

²² upon which the people shouted, It is the voice of a god and not of a man! ²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory. And being gnawed by worms he died.

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?"

⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoil; I will glut my vengeance: My sword shall slay; my hand shall prevail. ¹⁰ Thou didst send forth thy blast, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty water.

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?

² When the wicked exulteth with pride, the poor is set on fire; they are caught by the counsels which they devise. ³ Because the sinner is praised for the desires of his soul; therefore he who committeth injustice is blessed. ⁴ The sinner hath greatly provoked the Lord; according to his great anger will he not make inquisition? God is not before his eyes; ⁵ his ways are polluted on every occasion. Thy judgments are removed from his sight; shall he have a mastery over all his enemies? ⁶ For he said in his heart, I shall not he moved and I shall never be in adversity. ⁷ Is not his mouth full of cursing, and bitterness and deceit?

¹⁸ Let those deceitful lips become speechless, which speak injustice against the righteous with pride and contempt.

¹ For the conclusion. On understanding. By David, when Dock the Idumean came and told Saul and said to him, David went to Abimelech's house. Why boastest thou in mischief, mighty man of iniquity? All the day long he devised injustice.

⁷ Behold they are to speak oraculously with their mouth; and have a sword in their lips; For who heard?

¹² Let them be but arrested in their pride; the destructions attendant on their oath and falsehood, will shew the sin of their

³ They sharpened their tongues like a sword: they bent a bow, a bitter thing, ⁴ to shoot secretly a blameless man: They are to shoot him suddenly and not be afraid.

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.

³ they sharpened their tongue like that of a serpent: the poison of asps was under their lips.

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.

¹³ For he said, "With this power I will perform exploits; and by the wisdom of mine understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and make a prey of their strength, ¹⁴ and shake inhabited cities, and seize with my hand the whole World as a nest; and carry off the inhabitants like deserted eggs. There is none who can escape me or chirp against me." ¹⁵ Shall an axe boast without him who cutteth with it; or a saw lift itself up, without him who draweth it; as one could lift up a staff or a piece of wood? No; this shall not be permitted:

²⁴ That by thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord? For thou hast said, By the multitude of my chariots, I have ascended the height of mountains, and to the utmost limits of Libanus, and cut down the lofty cedar and beautiful cypress, and entered the stately part of the forest. ²⁵ I have laid bridges and dried up waters and every collection of water

¹⁸ Upon this they said, "Come let us settle on account with Jeremias. Because law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a word from the prophet, Come and that we may smite him with the tongue, let us hear all his words."

⁸ I attended to its horns, and behold another little horn sprouted up in the midst of them; and three of the horns which were before it were rooted out from before it. And behold in this horn there were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.

¹¹ I looked then because of the sound of the great words which that horn had spoken, until the beast was slain and destroyed and its body given to be burned with fire.

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.

¹¹ And until the captain general should deliver the captivity, even by reason of him the sacrifice was disturbed; and he was prospered; and the sanctuary is to be desolated;

³⁶ Because it is still for a time, therefore he will act according to his pleasure. And this king will be exalted and magnified above every god, and will speak swelling words, and prosper until the indignation is completed: for it is coming to a completion. ³⁷ Though with all the gods of his fathers, he will not keep up any intelligence, including even the desire of women; though he will not pay respect to any thing divine, because he will magnify himself above them all,

²⁴ But the Pharisees, hearing them said, This man expelleth the demons, only by Beelzebub, the chief of the demons.

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

¹⁴ Now to such as these Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold the Lord is coming with his holy myriads ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the wicked among them of all their impious deeds, which they have impiously committed, and of all the bitter things which impious sinners have uttered against him."

⁵ And to it was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. And power was given it to make war forty-two months. ⁶ And it opened its mouth for blasphemy against God, to slander his name and his tabernacle and them, who dwell in heaven.

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.

² perhaps he like a lion may tear my soul; if there be none to redeem; none to deliver.

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.

²² Since for thy sake we are killed all the day long, and accounted as sheep for slaughter:

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.

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;

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.

⁷ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste this place of his.

² Many a time they warred against me from my youth; they did not however prevail over me. ³ Upon my back the wicked hammered, they prolonged their iniquity:

¹⁵ Why do you injure my people; and cover with shame the face of the poor.

⁵ Now therefore why are you here? Thus saith the Lord, Because my people were taken away for nought, [express your amaze; and raise the mournful cry! Thus saith the Lord, On your account my name is continually reviled among the nations.

¹⁷ Behold thine eyes are not good, neither is thy heart; but they are bent upon thine inordinate desires and on the shedding of innocent blood, and on injustice, and on murder; that thou mayst perpetrate these things.

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

²⁰ [J] Thou art dispersing for rne implements oi' war, but in thee I will disperse nations and remove kings out of thee; ²¹ and in thee I will disperse the horse and his rider; ²² and in thee I will disperse chariots and charioteers; and in thee I will disperse the youth and the virgin; and in thee I will disperse the husband and the wife; ²³ and in thee I will disperse the shepherd and the flock; and in thee I will disperse the husbandman and his husbandry; and in thee I will disperse the generals and leaders of armies,

² As for them who hate good and seek evil, who tear off the skin from these and the flesh from their bones: ³ as they have devoured the flesh of my people and have flayed off their skin from them; and have broken their bones and chopped them up, as flesh for a kettle and as pieces of meat for a pot:

³ And I will give to my two witnesses and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.

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.

² turning aside the cause of the distressed; robbing the poor of my people, of their right; that the widow

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.

⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt:

³ Thus saith the Lord, Execute judgment and justice and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of him who wrongeth him; and over the stranger and the orphan and the widow tyrannise not; nor be guilty of impiety; nor shed innocent blood in this place.

⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan;

⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

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

¹¹ For he said in his heart God hath forgotten; He hath turned his face from ever seeing. ¹² Arise, Lord God, let thy hand be lifted up; Forget not the oppressed. ¹³ Why hath the wicked provoked God?; For he said in his heart, He will not make inquisition.

¹⁵ Alas! for them, who deeply form a design, but not by the Lord. Alas! for them, who form designs in secret, that their works may be in darkness; and who will say, "Who hath seen us, and who can find out us, or what we do?"

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.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is exceeding great. Because the land is filled with many peoples and the city is filled with iniquity and impurity; and because they said, the Lord hath forsaken this land; the Lord doth not see;

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, "

³ And there was in that city a widow, who went to him, saying, Do me justice on mine adversary. ⁴ And for a while he would not. But afterwards he said within himself, Though I neither fear God, nor regard man,

²⁹ They have not bent their minds to understand; Let them lay up these things for time to come.

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

²² I indeed was despicable for my want of knowledge; I was brutish as a beast before thee.

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

²² "While the innocent adhere to justice they shall not be put to shame: but as for fools who delight in mischief, having become wicked they hated knowledge and are become liable to censures.

⁵ Ye who are innocent learn discretion: and ye who are uninstructed give attention.

¹ He who loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he who hateth reproofs is a fool.

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

⁶ Hearken now and hear! Will they not speak thus, "There is not a man who repenteth of his wickedness," saying, " What have I done?" He who was running stop'd in his course like a horse tired with whinnying." ⁷ The stork in the heaven knoweth her season; so doth the dove and the swallow of the field; the ostriches observed the time of their coming; but my people do not know the judgments of the Lord. ⁸ How can you say, "We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us." In vain was it made; the scribes had a lying pen.

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¹¹ There is none who hath understanding. There is none who seeketh God.

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

¹¹ Upon which the Lord said to Moses, Who gave man a mouth? and who made the hard of hearing, and the deaf, him who seeth and the blind? Was it not I who am God?

⁴ The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord, whose throne is in heaven; whose eyes look down on the needy; whose eye lids examine the sons of men;

³ Thou hast proved my heart: thou hast watched me by night: thou hast tried me: and in me there was found no injustice.

²¹ for he knoweth the secrets of the heart?

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.

¹ Wine is intemperate, and drunkenness scornful. And with these every fool is entangled.

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

²³ I am God when near, saith the Lord; and am I not God when far off? ²⁴ Can any one hide himself in secret places; and I not see him? Do I not fill the heaven and the earth? saith the Lord.

¹¹ who regulateth the watches of the night; who distinguisheth me from the beasts of the earth and from the birds of the air?

⁵ thou hast rebuked nations, and the wicked one is destroyed. Thou hast blotted out their Name forever and ever.

¹⁶ Let the Lord reign for ever and ever! Perish ye nations out of his land!

⁸ The Lord is gracious and righteous: therefore he will instruct sinners in the way: ⁹ he will guide the meek in judgment: he will teach the meek his ways.

² When thy hand had extirpated nations, thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict nations and drive them out.

⁶⁶ Teach me kindness and discipline and knowledge; because I have believed thy commandments.

⁸ who smote the first born of Egypt: the first born both of man and beast. ⁹ Amidst thee, Egypt, he sent his signs and wonders, on Pharao and on all his servants. ¹⁰ It was he who smote many nations; and slew kings of mighty power; ¹¹ Seon king of the Amorites, and Og, the king of Basan, and all the kingdoms of Chanaan; ¹² and gave their land for an inheritance; for an inheritance for his people Israel.

⁷ to execute vengeance on the nations; rebukes among peoples.

⁶ For the Lord giveth wisdom; and from his presence is knowledge and understanding:

³ Many nations indeed, will go saying, "Come, let us go up to the mount of the Lord; and to the house of the God of Jacob. And he will teach us his way, and we will walk therein." For from Sion shall go forth a law; and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁵ Ho! Assyrians! The rod of my wrath, even mine anger is in their hands, ⁶ I will send this anger of mine to a lawless nation; and I will order this people of mine to gather spoil and take the prey, and to trample down cities and lay them in the dust.

²⁶ So thou shalt be corrected by the judgment of God; and be made glad.

³⁶ Thereupon Sennacherim king of the Assyrians retreated and went and dwelt in Ninive.

¹³ even thy sons, all instructed of God; and thy children in great prosperity.

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.

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.

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

¹² Art not thou from everlasting? Lord, my God, my Holy One! let us not die. Thou, Lord, hast appointed this for judgment: and formed it that its correction may work conviction in me.

¹² With a threat thou canst diminish a land, and with wrath crush nations.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets, They shall be all taught of God. Every one therefore who hath heard and learned from the Father, cometh to me.

¹¹ For he knoweth the works of the wicked, and on seeing wickedness will not overlook it. ¹² But man vainly floateth about in words; but a mortal born of woman is like a wild ass.

¹⁰ When he seeth the wise dying; together the foolish and senseless shall perish. And they shall leave their wealth to others, ¹¹ [a] But their graves shall be their houses forever; their dwelling places to all generations. On these parcels of earth, they have put their names, ¹² [b] When a man, who is in honour, hath not understanding: he hath been compared to the brute beasts and is like them; ¹³ this very way of theirs was to them a stumbling block; and after this shall it with their mouth be praised?

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened; ²² pretending to be wise, they became fools,

¹⁹ For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and abolish the understanding of the prudent."

²¹ For when, amidst the wisdom of God, the world did not, by means of that wisdom, know God; it pleased God by the foolishness of this proclamation to save them who believe;

²⁵ because this foolish thing of God is wiser than men, and this weak thing of God is stronger than men.

²⁰ And again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain."

⁵ so that thou must know in thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten thee;

¹⁷ But happy the man whom the Lord correcteth. Therefore despise not thou the correction of the Almighty.

¹⁶ then doth he open the understanding of men. ¹⁷ With such appearances of terror he frighted them, to turn man away from iniquity. Again he hath saved his body from a fall, ¹⁸ and hath rescued his soul from death; and hath not suffered him to fall in battle. ¹⁹ Again he hath rebuked him with sickness on a bed, and benumbed all his bones; ²⁰ so that he cannot take any nourishment, [though his soul longeth for food] ²¹ until his flesh become rotten, and he can show his bones bare. ²² When his soul hath come near to death, and his life near to the mansion of the dead, ²³ though there may be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them can mortally wound him. ²⁴ If he determine in his heart to turn to the Lord, when he shall have shewn man his charge against him, and pointed out to him his folly, he will support him, that he may not fall to death, ²⁵ and renew his body like the plaistering on a wall, and will fill his bones with marrow; and make his flesh soft like that of an infant, and restore him to full strength among men.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; for this cause I have kept thy word.

⁷¹ It is good for me that thou hast humbled me: that I might learn thy rules of rectitude.

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.

⁹ [6] Let the voice of the Lord be proclaimed in the city and it will save them who fear his name. [J] Hear, tribe! Who is the man that will adorn a city?

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

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 For whom the Lord loveth he reproveth, And chastiseth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷ If you endure correction God dealeth with you as sons. For what son is there whom a father doth not correct? ⁸ Now if you are without correction, of which all are partakers, you are indeed bastards and not sons. ⁹ Well then: we have had fathers of our flesh who have corrected us, and we have reverenced them; shall we not much more submit ourselves to the father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days corrected us as they thought fit; but he for our advantage, that we may partake of his holiness. ¹¹ Now all correction seemeth, for the present, not to be matter of joy, but of grief; yet afterwards it produceth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised therewith.

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

²⁹ But when he giveth rest, who shall call him to account? When he hideth his face, who can see him? Both against a nation, and against a man at the same time,

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

⁵ Why am I terrified in an evil clay? The iniquity at my heel will surround me.

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.

²⁰ Go my people, enter into thy chambers; shut thy door: hide thyself for a little while; until the anger of the Lord is passed. ²¹ For behold the Lord from his sanctuary is about to bring wrath on the inhabitants of this land; and the land will disclose the blood on it, and will no longer cover the slain.

²⁰ Shall evils be returned for good offices? Because they contrived designs against my life and concealed the punishment they intended for me. Remember how I stood before thee to intercede for them; to turn away thy wrath from them.

²² Let a scream be heard in their houses. Thou wilt bring robbers suddenly on them because they contrived a speech to entrap me and concealed the snares they had set for me.

¹⁶ I watched myself; and at the sound of the prayer of my lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the day of affliction, at the time of his coining to the people of my neighbourhood.

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.

⁷ and to you who are afflicted, rest with us at the manifestation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ executing, with flaming fire, vengeance on them who know not God, and on them who hearken not to the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁹ There is then a Sabbath rest left for the people of God.

⁹ the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly from, temptation, and to reserve the wicked to the day of judgment, to be punished;

³ knowing this first, that in the last day scoffers will come, walking after their own desires, ⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." ⁵ For this they wilfully forget, that by the word of God there were heavens of old, and an earth consisting of water and in water, ⁶ by which the world that then existed, being deluged, was destroyed; ⁷ but the heavens and the earth which now exist are, by the same word, treasured up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment, and destruction of these impious men.

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?" ¹¹ And to every of them were given white robes and they were told that they should rest yet a little while till their fellow servants and their brethren who were about to be slain as well as they were completed.

¹⁸ The nations indeed were enraged and thy wrath came and the time for the dead to be avenged and for giving the reward to thy servants the teachers and to the saints and to them who fear thy name, small and great, and for destroying them who destroy the earth.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from the heaven saying to me, "Write, Happy the dead who die in the Lord henceforth! Yes, verily saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labours and their works accompany them.

⁹ And the Lord's portion was his people Jacob; Israel was his lot of inheritance.

²² for the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name's sake: for the Lord hath in mercy taken you for his people.

¹² What man soever desireth life and loveth to see good days:

²⁸ Because the Lord loveth judgment and will not forsake his saints; they shall be preserved forever. The spotless shall be avenged, when the seed of the wicked shall be utterly cut off;

⁵ They have oppressed thy people, O Lord: and afflicted thine inheritance.

¹⁴ [M] Hath Sion then said, "The Lord hath quite forsaken me, "and, "Why hath the Lord forgotten me?" ¹⁵ can a woman forget her child? or not have compassion on the offspring of her womb? Grant that a woman may forget even these, but I will not forget thee, said the Lord.

¹⁶ Unlike to these is the portion of Jacob: for he who formed all things is his inheritance. His name is, The Lord.

³⁹ And I will give them another way and another heart that I may be always feared and may be for good to them and their children after them. ⁴⁰ And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, which I will not turn away from them; and I will put my fear in their heart, that they may not apostatise from me;

²⁷ My sheep, as I told you, hearken to my voice and I know them, and they follow me: ²⁸ and I give them everlasting life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one wrest them out of my hand. ²⁹ My father who gave them to me, is greater than all, and none is able to wrest them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ I and my father are one. ³¹ Hereupon the Jews again took up stones to stone him.

³⁰ And those whom he marked out beforehand he actually called, and those whom he called, even these he acquitted, and those whom he acquitted even these he glorified.

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹ I say then, Hath God utterly rejected his people? No, by no means. For even I myself am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. ² God hath not utterly rejected his people whom he heretofore acknowledged. Do you not know by Elias what the scripture saith? When he is pleading with God against Israel, saying,

¹⁸ that He would enlighten the eyes of your understanding, that you may see what the hope of this invitation of his is; and what the riches of the glory of this inheritance of his, in the saints;

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."

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. ³⁶ Because the Lord will judge his people; When he shall be appeased for his servants, [For he saw that they were enfeebled, Made faint by hostile invasions and dejected]

⁹ Now the righteous should prevail over the wicked: and he who is faithful should hold on his way: and he who hath clean hands should take courage.

¹¹ And I will come out at his commands; for I have kept his ways, and will not turn aside from his commands, ¹² nor transgress in my bosom: indeed I have hid his words.

¹⁴ is the observer of them who do injustice; he should save me:" but be judged before him. Canst thou praise him as things are?

⁸ The Lord is the judge of the tribes; judge me, Lord, according to my righteousness: and according to mine innocence be for me. ⁹ Let the wickedness of sinners be brought to an end. Thou wilt indeed direct the righteous: thou art the God who searcheth hearts and reins.

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

⁵ Lay open thy way before the Lord, and trust in him; and he will accomplish; ⁶ he will indeed bring forth thy righteousness like light, and thy judgment, as the noon day. 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.

³⁴ Wait on the Lord and keep his way: and he will exalt thee to inherit the land. When sinners are cut off, thou shalt see it.

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

² Exalt thyself, O thou judge of the earth; render a retribution to the proud. ³ How long shall sinners, O Lord; how long shall sinners boast?

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

³ for the Lord will not suffer the rod of the wicked to be over the inheritance of the righteous; that the righteous may not stretch forth their hands to iniquities. ⁴ Do good, O Lord, to the good, and to them who are upright in heart. ⁵ But them who turn aside into crooked ways, the Lord will drive away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

³ A bruised reed he will not break, nor extinguish a dimly burning taper; but will publish judgment to establish truth.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him; until he vindicate my cause. He will do me justice and bring me out into light;

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

⁷ Wherefore be ye, brethren, patient till the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruits of the earth, waiting for them with patience, until it hath received the former and the latter rain. ⁸ Wait ye also with patience. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near. ⁹ Repine not, brethren, against one another, that you may not be condemned. Behold the judge is at the door. ¹⁰ For an example of enduring adversity, and of long suffering, take, my brethren, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord. ¹¹ Behold we call those sufferers happy. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord's termination" that the Lord is full of compassion and tender mercy.

⁸ Now let not this one thing, my beloved, escape you, That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slack with regard to his promise, as some reckon slackness. But he is long suffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to a reformation. ¹⁰ Now the day of the Lord will come, as a thief at night, when the heavens with a crashing roar shall pass away, and the elements shall be dissolved by fire, and the earth, and all the works thereon, shall be burned up.

¹⁹ They went out from us; but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.

³ and they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord, God, Almighty; Just and true are thy ways O thou king of the saints; ⁴ Who would not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou alone art perfect. For all the nations will come and worship before thee, For thy rules of rectitude are made manifest.

²⁶ Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, Who is for the Lord? Let him come to me. Upon which all the sons of Levi joined him. ²⁷ Then Moses said to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Gird ye every man his sword on his thigh and pass through and wheel about from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his neighbour and every one him who is nearest of kin to him. ²⁸ And the children of Levi did as Moses spoke to them and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. ²⁹ For Moses said to them, Fill your hands to-day for the Lord, every one with his son or with his brother that a blessing may be bestowed on you.

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

⁶ And behold there came a man of the children of Israel, who conducted his brother to a Madianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and before all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁷ Upon seeing this, Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, started up from among the congregation, and taking a javelin in his hand, ⁸ went after the man; the Israelite, into the bed chamber, and ran them both through, the man, the Israelite, quite through, and the woman into her belly. Whereupon the plague stopped from the children of Israel. ⁹ Now they who had died of the plague were twenty four thousand. ¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath stayed my wrath from Israel, by shewing a zeal for me among them, so that in my jealousy I have not utterly consumed the children of Israel. ¹² Therefore say, Behold I give him the covenant of peace. ¹³ It shall be to him, and to his seed after him, an everlasting covenant of the priests' office, because he shewed a zeal for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

²³ Curse Meroz, said the messenger of the Lord. Curse ye it bitterly. Cursed be every one who dwelleth therein, Because they came not to the help of the Lord; To the help of the Lord among the mighty.

³⁹ Then all the people fell on their faces and said, Of a truth the Lord is God. He is very God. ⁴⁰ Then Elias said to the people, Seize the prophets of Baal. Let none of them escape. So they seized them and brought them to Elias, down to the brook Kison and slew them there.

³² Whereupon he looked up to the window, and when he saw her he said, Who art thou? Come down to me. Then two chamberlains looked out at him

¹⁵ And going thence he met Jonadab son of Rechab, coming to meet him. And when he had saluted him, Jehu said to him, Is thy heart right with my heart, as my heart is with thine? And when Jonadab said, It is: Jehu said to him. Give me thy hand. So he gave him his hand. Then he caused him to come up to him into the chariot,

⁷ And having consulted in my own mind, I chid the nobles and the chiefs, and said to them, would any man exact of his brother what you exact? Then having assembled a great meeting against them,

¹³ Arise, Lord, prevent them and cause them to stumble. Deliver my soul from the wicked: wrest thy sword

² Deliver me from them who work iniquity; and save me from blood thirsty men.

¹⁶ When he took a view and there was no man; and made close observation, and there was no helper; then with his own arm he defended them and with mercy supported them.

⁵ When I looked and there was no helper and observed that none upheld; then mine own arm delivered them. Mine indignation indeed was roused,

¹ [J] Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; and look, and inquire, and search in her broad ways. If you can find; if there be a man, who executeth judgment and seeketh truth, I will be merciful to them saith the Lord.

¹⁶ Then the chiefs and all the people said to the priests and the false prophets, This man is not liable to death, for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord. ¹⁷ And there stood up some principal men of the elders of the land, and said to all the assembly of the people, 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:" ¹⁹ but did Ezekias and all Juda put him to death? No. Because they feared the Lord; and because they intreated the favour of the Lord: therefore the Lord refrained from the evils which he had denounced against them. Now as for us, we have committed great evils against our souls.

³⁰ Though I sought among them for a man of integrity and for one who stood uprightly before me in the time of indignation that I might utterly destroy it, yet I found none:

³⁰ He who is not for me is against me; and he who gathereth not with me, scattereth.

⁵⁰ Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by night, and who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹ Doth our law condemn the man without hearing him, and knowing what he hath done?

⁸ We therefore ought to entertain such, that we may be fellow helpers in the truth.

³ Look down, hearken to me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten mine eyes, that I may not sleep unto death;

¹⁷ Lord, let me not be shamed, because I have invoked thee. Let the wicked be shamed and driven down to the mansion of the dead.

¹⁷ The dead cannot praise thee, O Lord; nor any who go down to the mansion of the dead:

¹³ Being hard pressed, I was on the point of falling: but the Lord himself supported me.

¹ A Song of the steps. Had not the Lord been on our side [let Israel now say] ² had not the Lord been on our side, when men rose up against us;

¹ A Song of the steps. They who trust in the Lord shall be like mount Sion; he who inhabiteth Jerusalem shall never be shaken.

⁴ I looked to the right; and observed that none was there, who knew me. Flight was cut off from me; and is he not earnestly seeking my life? ⁵ To thee, O Lord, I cried and said, Thou art my hope; my portion in the land of the living.

³² Behold the time is coming, indeed is now come, when you will be scattered every one to his own, and you will leave me alone; yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

⁸ For we do not, brethren, wish you to be ignorant with respect to that affliction of ours which befel us in Asia; that we were exceedingly pressed beyond our strength, so that we had indeed no hopes of life; ⁹ but had in ourselves the sentence of death, that we might not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead, ¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will still deliver us,

¹⁶ At my first defence no one attended; but all forsook me. May this not be charged to their account! ¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that the proclamation might be made completely by me, and that all the nations might hear it. And I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion.

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

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

²³ The steps of a man will be directed by the Lord, when he taketh delight in his way. ²⁴ When he happeneth to fall, he shall not fall with violence; for the Lord is a stay to his hand.

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

² But as for me, my feet were almost gone: my steps had well nigh slipped;

¹¹⁶ Uphold me according to thy word and keep me alive; and let me not be shamed for mine expectation. ¹¹⁷ Help me and I shall be saved; and I will meditate continually on thy statutes.

³ let him not suffer my feet to stumble: nor let him, who keepeth me, slumber.

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.

³² and I have prayed for thee that thy faith may not quite fail. When thou therefore hast recovered thyself, strengthen thou thy brethren.

⁵ said, Why was not this balsam sold for three hundred deniars, and given to the poor?"

⁵ who are, during belief, kept safely by the power of God, for a deliverance prepared to be revealed in the last time;

² Since thou, God, art my strength, why hast thou cast me off? and why go I mourning, because of mine enemy's oppression? ³ send forth thy light and thy truth; these have conducted me, and led me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles. 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. ⁵ Why art thou, my soul, cast down; and why disquietest thou me? Trust in God, for I shall praise him. My God is the health of my countenance.

² From the extremity of the land, I cried to thee, when my heart began to despond: at Petra thou didst raise me up, and conduct me.

⁵ Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness: that my joyful lips may praise thy name. ⁶ If I recollected thee on my bed: in the morning watches I meditated on thee.

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.

² In the day of my affliction I sought God with my hands in the night before him; and I was not disappointed. My soul had refused to be comforted; ³ I remembered God and was made glad; I meditated, though my spirit was in despondency. ⁴ All mine enemies had previously mounted guard; I was troubled and did not speak. ⁵ I considered the days of old: I recollected the years of ancient times; ⁶ I meditated at night; I conversed with my heart; I searched my spirit diligently. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off forever, and will he no more be favourable? ⁸ Will he entirely cut off mercy, from generation to generation? ⁹ Will God forget to be gracious? Will he in his anger restrain his compassion? ¹⁰ Then I said, I have now made a beginning; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High.

⁷ [p] Hast thou, Lord deceived me? and have I been deceived? Thou hast taken hold and hast prevailed. I am become a subject of laughter: all the day long I endure reproach. ⁸ Because for my bitter word I am to be derided, shall I appeal to a breach of covenant and misery? because the word of the Lord became a reproach to me; a subject of mockery all the day long; ⁹ therefore I said, I will not name the name of the Lord; I will not speak any more in his name. But there was kindled as it were a burning fire in my bones and I became dejected and cannot bear it. ¹⁰ Because I heard the whisper of many collected from all around saying, "Join in conspiracy and let us all conspire against him; ye men who are his friends watch his thoughts; if he can be deceived, we shall then prevail over him and take our revenge on him." ¹¹ But the Lord was with me as a mighty warrior, therefore they persecuted and could not contrive. They were put to great confusion. Because they had not a due sense of their infamous practices, which are never to be forgotten;

¹⁶ I watched myself; and at the sound of the prayer of my lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the day of affliction, at the time of his coining to the people of my neighbourhood. 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.

² through whom we have, by this belief, obtained access to this favour in which we stand and boast in a hope of the glory of God. ³ And not only so, but we boast also in our tribulations, as we know that tribulation operateth to produce patience; ⁴ and patience, a proof; and proof, a hope; ⁵ and this hope will not shame us, because the love of God is diffused through our hearts by a Holy Spirit, which is given us.

⁴ who comforteth us in all our affliction, to the end that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves have been comforted by God. ⁵ Because in proportion as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so by means of Christ our consolation also aboundeth;

⁷ in order that your faith, which hath stood the test and is much more precious than gold which is of a perishable nature though tried by fire, may be found praise worthy, and honourable, and glorious, at the manifestation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom without knowing him personally you love; in whom though you do not now see him, yet you believe, and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorified joy,

¹² Saul said, Hear now thou son of Achitob! And he said, Here I am. Speak, my lord.

³² And Jeroboam instituted a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth clay of the month, answering to the festival in the land of Juda, and he went up to the altar which he made at Baithel to burn incense to the calves which he had made, and presented at Baithel the priests of the high places whom he had made.

¹⁴ and said, Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and shewing mercy to thy servants, who walk before thee with a perfect heart. ¹⁵ Thou hast kept with thy servant David, my father, that which thon didst speak to him. What with thy mouth thou didst speak, thou with thy hand hast performed as at this day. ¹⁶ Now therefore, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast spoken to him, saying, There shall not fail thee from before me a man sitting on the throne of Israel, provided thy sons take heed to their way to walk in my law as thou hast walked before me.

⁶ he was greatly inflamed with wrath, and determined to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes. ⁷ And having drawn up a decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, he cast lots for one day after another and for one month after another so as to destroy the whole race of Mordecai in one day. And the lot having fallen on the fourteenth day of the month Adar, ⁸ he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations throughout thy whole kingdom, whose laws differ from all the nations. And as they disobey the king's laws and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone; ⁹ if it seemeth good to the king, let him pass a decree to destroy them and I will subscribe ten thousand talents of silver to the king's treasury. ¹⁰ Thereupon the king taking off his ring gave it to Haman to seal the writings against the Jews. ¹¹ And the king said to Haman, Keep the money, and do with the nation what thou pleasest. ¹² So the king's secretaries were convened on the thirteenth day of the first month, and they wrote as Haman directed to the generals and the governors in every province, from India to Ethiopia a hundred and twenty seven provinces, and to the chiefs of the nations according to their dialect in the name of king Artaxerxes,

¹⁶ But to the sinner God said, "Why dost thou mention my judgments, or take my covenant in thy mouth?

² In heart, indeed, you are working iniquity in the land: your hands are weaving injustice.

¹ A Psalm by Asaph. GOD standeth in the assembly of gods and in the midst he judgeth gods.

¹⁶ and yet I saw under the sun a place of judgment; was the [[a] an objection, [b] the answer.] wicked there? and a place for the just; was the pious there?

⁸ If thou seest a frivolous accusation of a poor man, and a rigorous exaction of judgment and justice in a country, marvel not at the matter. Because there is a high one over a high one to watch, and high ones are for these things,

¹¹ "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?" saith the Lord: I am cloyed with whole burnt offerings of rams: in the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats I have no delight; ¹² nor should you come to appear before me: for who hath required these at your hands? You shall no more be admitted to tread my court. ¹³ Though you bring fine flour; it is a vain incense: it is an abomination to me. Your new moons and sabbaths and great day I cannot endure: ¹⁴ your fasting and cessation from labour; and your new moons and your festivals my soul hateth. You are become loathsome to me; I will no longer remit your sins. ¹⁵ When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn mine eyes from you: and though you multiply prayer, I will not hearken to you: for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash and become clean: remove iniquities from your souls; in my presence, cease from your evil deeds; ¹⁷ learn to do good; seek judgment; deliver him who is injured; administer justice to the orphan, and plead the cause of the widow: ¹⁸ then come: [let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord] and though your sins be as a purple stain; I will make you white as snow; though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make you white as wool. ¹⁹ If you indeed be willing and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land: ²⁰ but if you refuse and hearken not to me, the sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken these words."

¹ Woe to them who write wickedness! For writers are writing wickedness;

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

⁴ the herald cried with a loud voice, To you peoples of different tribes and languages command is given; ⁵ whenever you shall hear the sound of the trumpet and syrinx and of the kithara and sanibuk and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, prostrate yourselves and worship the golden image which Nabuchodonosar the king hath set up. ⁶ And whoever will not prostrate himself and worship, shall that very hour be cast into that furnace of fire, which is heating. ⁷ So when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and syrinx, and of the kithara and sambuk, and of the psaltery, and all kinds of musical instruments, all the peoples, tribes and languages, falling prostrate, worshipped the golden image which nabuchodonosar the king had set up.

⁷ All that are over thy kingdom, the generals and governors, the chief commanders and toparchs have joined in opinion to establish by a royal statute and make a firm decree, that whoever shall make any request of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee only, king; he shall be cast into the den of the lions. ⁸ Now therefore, king, establish the edict and promulgate it in writing, that the decree of the Persians and Medes may not be dispensed with. ⁹ Upon this Darius the king ordered the decree to be written.

³ who are coming to an evil day, who are drawing near and on the point of touching false sabbaths?

¹⁶ As thou hast kept the statutes of Zambri, and all the works of the house of Achab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee up to desolation, and the inhabitants of this city to hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproaches of peoples.

²² This his parents said, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had now agreed that if any one acknowledged Jesus to be the Christ, he should be excommunicated.

⁵⁷ Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had issued an order, that if any one knew where he is, he should give information, that they might apprehend him.

²⁸ From Caiaphas they led Jesus away to the judgment hall of the Roman governor. Now it was early in the morning and they themselves did not go into the hall that they might not be polluted, but that they might eat the passover.

⁵ This indeed is the message which we have heard from him, and announce to you, That God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise truth.

¹⁵ And power was granted to it to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might speak and cause all to be slain who would not worship the image of the beast. ¹⁶ And it causeth all both little and great, both rich and poor, both freemen and slaves to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and that none should buy or sell, but he who hath the mark, or the name of the beast or the number of its name.

⁷ Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes.

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.

¹ Why did nations rage? And tribes meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth combined; and the chiefs assembled together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, [saying] ³ "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke."

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

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

³ For behold they have hunted my life: the mighty are set against me: though there is no transgression; no sin, Lord, in me.

³⁸ and shed innocent blood; the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the graven idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood and

¹¹ saying, Come with us; partake of blood; and let us hide in the earth an innocent man without cause,

¹⁶ [Omitted]

¹⁵ He who acquitteth the wicked and condemneth the just, is unclean and abominable in the sight of God.

¹⁵ But be assured that if you put me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof. For in truth, the Lord hath sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.

⁶ Behold in thee the princes of the house of Israel banded themselves, every one with his relations, that they might shed blood.

¹² In thee they received bribes to shed blood. In thee they took interest and usury, and thou hast completed thy wickedness by oppression. And me thou hast forgotten, saith the Lord.

²⁷ Its chiefs in the midst of it were like wolves, ravening prey, to the shedding of innocent blood, that they may glut their greediness.

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.

¹ Now early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to have him put to death.

⁴ saying, I have sinned in having betrayed innocent blood To which they replied, What is that to us? Look thou to that.

⁵ And on the morrow their rulers, and elders, and Scribes at Jerusalem assembled, ⁶ with Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the pontifical family; ⁷ and having set them in the midst, they asked by what power, or by what name, have you done this?

²⁷ For indeed against thy holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and the tribes of Israel, were gathered together, ²⁸ to do what thy hand and thy council had determinately marked out beforehand to be brought to pass.

⁵² Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? Indeed they have slain them who prophesied concerning the coming of that Righteous one, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers:

⁵⁸ And having driven him out of the city they stoned him. And the witnesses laid their mantles at the feet of a young man named Saul, ⁵⁹ and stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ⁶⁰ Then he kneeled down and cried out with a loud voice, O! Lord, charge not this sin to their account; and having said this he fell asleep.

⁶ You have condemned you have murdered the just one. Is he not setting himself in array against you?

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

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.

¹ A Psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my saviour. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil doers approached me, to devour my flesh; they, who afflicted me, even mine enemies fainted and fell. ³ Though a host be drawn up against me, my heart will not be dismayed; though war rise up against me, still I exercise hope.

⁹ My strength is with thee: I will keep watch: for thou, God, art my supporter.

¹⁶ But I will sing of thy power; and in the morning exult in thy mercy: because thou wast my supporter, and my refuge in the day of my affliction. Thou art my helper; ¹⁷ to thee, my God, I will sing; thou art my supporter, my God, my comfort.

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

⁶ Because my God and my Saviour himself, is my support; I shall no more wander as an exile.

¹⁰ Will not he, who chastiseth nations, reprove? He who teacheth man knowledge?

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

¹⁰ Then David said, As the Lord liveth, either the Lord will smite him, or his time shall come, and he will go down to battle and fall. ¹¹ The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the anointed of the Lord. Now therefore take, I pray thee, the spear from his pillow, and the cup of water, and let us go.

¹⁶ his mischief will return on his own head; on his own head his injustice will come down.

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.

³ May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips; and the tongue which speaketh swelling words;

⁸ when their tongues vilified him. All that saw them were troubled:

³¹ Let them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled with their own iniquity.

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

²² Iniquities hunt a man; but every one is caught by the cords of his own sins.

³² A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness; but in his sanctity the righteous is secure.

²⁴ But when a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity according to all the iniquities which the wicked hath done, none of the righteous acts which he hath done shall be remembered. For the sins which he hath committed, even for these he shall die.

²⁴ And its ten horns denote that ten kingdoms shall be raised up; and after them another shall be raised up which shall exceed in evils all those before and shall humble three kings

²⁶ and after the sixty two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, though there is no crime in him; and he, with the ruler who is coming, will destroy the city and the sanctuary. They shall be destroyed with a deluge, and even to the end of the war determined on in course, with desolations.