Zechariah 13 Cross References - Thomson

¹ In that day every place will be opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for the removal and for the separation. ² And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land; and there shall no more be a remembrance of them. And I will remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit out of the land. ³ And it shall come to pass that if any man shall still prophesy, even his father and his mother who begot him will say to him, Thou shalt not live, because thou hast spoken lies in the name of the Lord. And his father and his mother who begot him will bind him when he prophesieth. ⁴ And in that day the prophets shall be exposed to shame; every one for his vision, when he prophesieth: and they shall be clothed with a hairy skin because they lied. ⁵ And when one will say, I am not a prophet, for from my youth I am a husbandman, because a husbandman begot me; ⁶ then I will say to him, what Wounds are these in thy hands? And he will say, those with which I was wounded in my beloved house? ⁷ Awake, sword, against my shepherds, and against my chief citizen, saith the Lord Almighty; I will smite the shepherds and the sheep shall be scattered and I will bring my hand on the little ones. ⁸ And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts of it shall be cut off and die and the third part shall be left in it. ⁹ And when I have passed this third part through fire, and tried them as silver is tried, and proved them as gold is proved; this people will invoke My name and I will hear them and say, this is my people, and they will say, the Lord is my God.

¹³ and if it be torn by wild beasts he shall bring the owner to the prey and shall not make compensation.

¹³ You shall keep all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the name of strange gods, nor let it be heard out of your mouth.

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.

² Speak to the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man hath an efflux from his body; because of his efflux he is unclean, ³ and this is the law touching his uncleanness. If his efflux be a gonorrhea, this is an uncleanness in him. So long as his gonorrhea continueth, it is his uncleanness. ⁴ Every bed on which such a one lieth is unclean; and every seat whereon he shall sit, shall be unclean. ⁵ And whoever shall touch his bed must wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and shall be unclean until the evening. ⁶ And whoever sitteth on the seat whereon he sat, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until the evening. ⁷ And whoever toucheth his flesh, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until the evening. ⁸ And if he spit on one who is clean, the person who was clean shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until the evening. ⁹ And every saddle of an ass on which he shall ride, shall be unclean until evening. ¹⁰ And whoever toucheth any things which were under him, shall be unclean until evening. And whoever carrieth them shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. ¹¹ And every one whom he who hath the gonorrhea toucheth, without washing his hands, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. ¹² And every earthen vessel which he shall touch shall be broken; but a vessel of wood shall be washed with water, and shall be clean. ¹³ And when he is clean of his disorder, he shall reckon for himself seven days for his purification, and he shall wash his clothes, and wash his body with water, and he shall be clean. ¹⁴ And on the eighth day he shall take him two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them before the Lord, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and give them to the priest. ¹⁵ And the priest shall offer one of them for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering. So shall the priest make atonement for him before the Lord, on the account of his efflux. ¹⁶ And if any man's seed go from him by copulation, he shall wash his whole body with water, and be unclean until evening. ¹⁷ And every garment, and every skin on which the seminal matter may be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening. ¹⁸ And with respect to a woman, if any man lie carnally with her, they shall wash themselves with water, and be unclean until the evening. ¹⁹ And if any woman hath an efflux, and it be in her body, she shall confine herself seven days to her peculiar seat. Every one who toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening. ²⁰ And every thing on which she lieth during her state of separation, shall be unclean; and every thing on which she shall sit, shall be unclean. ²¹ And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. ²² And whoever toucheth any thing on which she sat, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. ²³ Whether she be in bed, or on any seat whereon she may sit, when one toucheth her, he shall be unclean until evening. ²⁴ But if any one lie down by her, and her uncleanness is upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he may lie, shall be unclean. ²⁵ And if any woman hath an efflux of blood many days, out of the time of her separation; or if it continue beyond the time of her separation, all the days of this issue of uncleanness, shall be like the days of her separation. She shall be unclean; ²⁶ and every bed on which she may lie during this issue, shall be to her like her bed of separation. And every seat on which she may sit, shall be unclean according to the uncleanness of her separate state. ²⁷ Every one who toucheth her shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and wash his body with water, and be unclean until evening. ²⁸ And when she is clear of her disorder she shall reckon for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. ²⁹ And on the eighth day she shall take two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, and carry them to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the testimony. ³⁰ And the priest shall offer one of them for a sin offering, and the other for a whole burnt offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord, on the account of her uncleanness. ³¹ Thus shall you make the children of Israel religiously careful to guard against their uncleannesses, that they may not die for their uncleanness; for defiling my tabernacle which is among them. ³² This is the law for him who hath a gonorrhea, and for him whose seed goeth from him so as to be defiled thereby; ³³ and for her who is menstruous; and for the emission of seed between a man and a woman; and for a man who lieth by a woman; in her state of separation.

¹² And I will walk about among you, and be your God, and you shall be my people.

⁴⁴ [as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God] ⁴⁵ then will I remember the covenant with them; that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage, to be their God. I am the Lord;

⁹ And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them without the camp, in a clean place, and water of sprinkling shall be kept in store for the congregation of Israel. It is a purification. ¹⁰ And he who gathereth up the ashes of the heifer, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be for the children of Israel, and for the proselytes who have joined them, an everlasting ordinance, ¹¹ that whoever toucheth the dead body of a man shall be unclean seven days. ¹² He shall be purified on the third, and on the seventh day, then he shall be clean: but if he be not purified on the third, and on the seventh day, he shall not be clean. ¹³ If any person, who hath touched the dead, die, without being purified, he hath defiled the tabernacle of the Lord; that soul shall be blotted out from among Israel. Because the water of sprinkling bath not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean. His impurity is still in him. ¹⁴ This also is the law, that if any man die in a house, every one who goeth into the house, and all the things in the house, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁵ And every open vessel which hath not a cover fastened on it, is unclean. ¹⁶ And every one who, in the open field, toucheth one slain, or dead, or a human bone, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days. ¹⁷ Now, for one who is unclean, they shall take some of the burnt ashes of the purification, and pour spring water thereon, in a vessel; ¹⁸ and a man who is clean shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the house, and on the vessels, and on the persons who may be in the house, and on him who hath touched a human bone, or a man who hath been slain, or one dead, or a grave. ¹⁹ The clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean, on the third day, and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall purify himself^ and shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and be unclean until evening. ²⁰ And whoever shall be defiled, and not purified, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation, because he hath defiled the holy things of the Lord. Because the water of sprinkling hath not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean. ²¹ And it shall be an everlasting statute for you, that he who sprinkleth the water of sprinkling, shall wash his clothes; and he who toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until evening: ²² and whatever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the person who toucheth it shall be unclean until evening.

³ You shall level their mounts, and break in pieces their pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn the graven images of their gods with fire, so that their name may be destroyed out of that place.

⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. ⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people. ¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you.

²⁰ But the prophet who shall wickedly presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, that prophet shall be put to death.

¹⁷ Thou hast this day chosen God to be thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his rules of rectitude, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice. ¹⁸ And the Lord hath this day chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, as he hath said, that thou mayst keep his commandments, ¹⁹ and be, as he hath made thee, renowned above all the nations, and a boast, and glorious, and that thou mayst be a people dedicated to the Lord, as he hath spoken.

⁴⁹ The Lord will bring against thee a nation from afar; from the extremity of the earth, with the impetuosity of an eagle; A nation whose voice thou shalt not understand; ⁵⁰ a nation of an unblushing countenance, which will not respect the person of an elder, nor compassionate a youth. ⁵¹ And it shall devour the increase of thy cattle, and the products of thy land, so as not to leave thee corn, wine, oil, herds or flocks, until it hath destroyed thee, ⁵² and wasted thee in thy cities; until they have demolished thy high, and strong walls, in which thou hast placed thy confidence, throughout thy whole land. And when he shall afflict thee in thy cities which he hath given thee; ⁵³ in thy siege, and in the affliction, with which thine enemy shall afflict thee, thou shalt eat the offspring of thy body; the flesh of thy sons, and thy daughters, whom he gave thee. ⁵⁴ The tender, and very delicate man who is with thee, will look with an evil eye on his brother, and on the wife in his bosom, and the remaining children which may be left him, ⁵⁵ so as not to give one of them any of the flesh of his sons, which he may be eating, because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemies will afflict thee, in all thy cities. ⁵⁶ And the tender, and very delicate woman among you, whose foot never ventured to tread the ground because of her delicateness, and effeminacy will look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and on her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷ even the female infant she bore, or the male child which she may have brought forth; for on the account of the want of all things, she will eat these secretly in thy siege, and in that affliction of thine with which thine enemy will afflict thee in thy cities. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not hearken to do all the words of this law, which are written in this book, to fear this glorious, this wonderful name, The Lord Thy God, ⁵⁹ the Lord will make thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, wonderful beyond conception; he will make them great, and marvellous, and thy diseases sore, and lasting, ⁶⁰ and will bring upon thee all the affliction of Egypt; that grievous affliction which thou didst dread on their account, and they shall cleave to thee. ⁶¹ The Lord will also bring upon thee every sickness, and every plague, which is not written, and every one which is written in this book of the law, until he root thee out. ⁶² And you shall be left few in number, instead of being, as you were, like the stars of heaven for multitude. Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, ⁶³ therefore it shall come to pass, that as the Lord delighted in you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you, in rooting you out; and you shall be removed speedily from the land to which thou art going to take possession of it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord thy God will scatter thee among all the nations, from one extremity of the earth to the other; and thou shalt there serve other gods; stocks and stones, which neither thou, nor thy fathers have known. ⁶⁵ But even among these nations he will not give thee rest, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. Indeed the Lord will give thee there a strange trembling heart, and failing eyes, and a desponding soul, ⁶⁶ and thy life shall hang in suspence before thine eyes, and thou shalt be in terror, day and night, and have no assurance of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou wilt say; How will it be with me in the evening! And in the evening thou wilt say, How may it be with me in the morning! on account of the terror of thy heart with which thou shalt be affrighted, and on account of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will send thee back into Egypt, in ships, [by the way which I ordered thou shalt see it no more:] and thou shalt there be exposed to sale to your enemies, for bond men and bond women, and there will be no purchaser.

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.

⁹ With regard to him who saith to his father and to his mother I have not beheld thee, And hath not acknowledged his brethren, And hath renounced his own children, He it is who hath observed thine Oracles And diligently kept thy covenant.

⁷ That you may have no fellowship with those nations which are left, the names of their gods must not be mentioned among you; nor shall you perform religious service to them, nor worship them;

²⁸ Then they called with a loud voice, and according to their custom cut themselves with knives and lancets till there was a gush of blood upon them,

²² And the Lord said to him, How? And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt deceive him and actually prevail. Go and do so.

⁸ And they said to him, He was a hairy man, girt about the loins with a leathern girdle. Upon which he said, This is Elias the Thesbite.

³⁰ For though I have washed myself with snow, and purified myself with clean hands: ³¹ thou hast so thoroughly plunged me in filth that my very robes abhor me.

¹⁰ For he already knoweth my way and hath tried me like gold.

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

⁴ Their infirmities were multiplied: after these hallowed things they hastened. I will no more assemble their congregations for blood, nor make mention of their names with my lips.

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

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous: and his ears are open to their prayer. ¹⁶ But the face of the Lord is against them that do evil; to destroy the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cried and the Lord heard them; ¹⁷ and delivered them out of all their afflictions. ¹⁸ The Lord is near to those of a contrite heart; and will save them who are lowly in spirit. ¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but out of them all the Lord will deliver them.

¹⁵ Then call on me in the day of trouble; and I will deliver thee and thou shalt praise me."

² wash me thoroughly from this iniquity of mine; and purify me from this my sin.

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

¹⁰ For thou, God, didst prove us, thou hast tried us as silver is tried. ¹¹ Thou didst bring us into the net: thou didst lay affliction on our back: ¹² thou didst mount men over our heads; we have passed through fire and water. But thou hast brought us to a place of rest.

¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him: I am with him in affliction: I will deliver him and honour him.

¹⁵ The people who had such things were hailed happy; but happy is the people, whose God is the Lord.

³ As silver and gold are tried in a furnace; so are chosen hearts, by the Lord.

⁵ Open rebukes are better than concealed love. ⁶ More faithful are the Wounds of a friend; than the feigned kisses of an enemy.

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.

¹⁸ Then will they hide all these handiworks,

²⁰ For on that day men will cast to the bats their abominations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship vanities;

¹³ for still about the tenth is in it; and shall again be for a prey, and be like the ilex and like the oak when it hath fallen from its station.

⁶ because for us a child is born, and to us a son is given, whose government is on his own shoulder; and his name is called, "The Messenger of Great Counsel." For I will bring peace on the rulers and health for him.

² at that time the Lord spoke to Esaias son of Amos saying, "Go and take the sackcloth from thy loins and loose thy sandals from thy feet; and having done so walk stripped and bare foot."

¹ In that day God will bring his holy sword, even his great and powerful sword, upon the dragon, the flying serpent; Upon the dragon, the crooked serpent; he will slay the dragon.

¹¹ Like a shepherd he will tend his flock; and with his arm he will gather the lambs, and comfort the ewes that are with young.

² therefore when thou passest through water, I am with thee, and the streams shall not overwhelm thee: and when thou passest through fire, thou shalt not be burned up; the flame shall not quite consume thee.

¹ But now, hear, Jacob my servant, and thou Israel, whom I have chosen; ² Thus saith the Lord, the God who made thee, and who formed thee from the womb, still thou shalt be helped. Fear not, thou my servant Jacob, and thou, beloved Israel, whom I have chosen: ³ for I will give water in their thirst to them who are travelling in a desert. I will put my spirit on thy seed, and my blessings on thy children; ⁴ and they shall spring up like grass among water, and like a willow by the side of a flowing stream. ⁵ One will say, "I belong to God;" and another will call himself by the name of Jacob; and another will write on his hand, "I belong to God;" and will surname himself by the name of Israel. ⁶ Thus saith God, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the God of Hosts, I am the first and I am the last: be sides me there is no God.

¹⁰ Behold I sold thee; but not for money; and I have rescued thee out of the furnace of affliction.

⁴ This man beareth away our sins; and for us he is in sorrow: And we considered him as being in trouble and under a stroke and in affliction. ⁵ But he was wounded for our sins, and afflicted for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him; by his bruises we are healed. ⁶ We all like sheep had strayed; every man wandered in his way: and the Lord delivered him up for our sins: ⁷ and he, on account of his affliction, openeth not his mouth. He was led as a sheep to be slaughtered. And as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. ⁸ In this humiliation his legal trial was taken away. Who will declare his manner of life. [J] Because his life is taken from the earth; for the transgressions of my people he is led to death; ⁹ therefore for his funeral I will give up the wicked, and the rich for his death. Because he committed no iniquity, nor practised guile with his mouth, ¹⁰ and the Lord determined to purify him from this stroke: when his soul shall be given up for a sin offering; of you he shall see a seed which shall prolong their days.

⁹ Then thou shalt cry and God will answer thee; and whilst thou art speaking he will say, Lo I am here. If thou remove from thee the bond, and the vote and decree which occasion murmuring,

¹² you I will deliver up to the sword; you shall all bow down to slaughter. Because I called and you answered not: I spake and you would not listen; but did what is evil in my sight; and chose the things in which I did not delight; ¹³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold my servants shall eat; but you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink; but you shall be thirsty: behold my servants shall rejoice; but you shall be ashamed: ¹⁴ behold my servants shall triumph with joy: But you shall scream for sorrow of heart, and howl for anguish of spirit. ¹⁵ For you shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen. As for you, the Lord will destroy you; but to my servants, a new name shall be given

²³ My chosen ones shall not labour in vain, nor shall they bring forth children for a curse. Because they are a seed blessed of God, both they and their offspring: ²⁴ therefore it shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer them: and while they are yet speaking I will say, "What is the matter."

⁴ I also will chuse their delusions, and pay them back their sins. Because I called them and they did not answer; I spake, but they did not listen:;but did that which is evil in my sight, and chose the things in which I did not delight; ⁵ hear the decisions of the Lord; ye who tremble at his word, say, "O our brethren; [to them who hate you and are abominable, that the name of the Lord may be glorified and appear to their joy, when they shall be ashamed] ⁶ a sound of screaming from the city! a sound from the temple! the voice of the Lord rendering a recompense to his adversaries!

²⁴ And they shall go forth, and see the carcasses of those men, who have transgressed against me. For their Worm shall not die and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.

²⁶ As a thief when taken, is ashamed; so shall the children of Israel be put to shame. They and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and their prophets,

¹⁵ Were they ashamed because they failed? even in that case they were not ashamed; nor were they sensible of their infamy; therefore they shall fall in the common ruin; and in the time of visitation they shall perish, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ I will give their wives to others and their fields to them who will take possession, that they may gather the products thereof, saith the Lord. ¹¹ [Omitted] ¹² [Omitted]

¹³ Thou, O Lord art the hope of Israel. Let all who forsake Thee be ashamed; let them who have apostatised be enrolled in the dust, because they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of lie.

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

¹⁴ but among the prophets of Jerusalem I saw horrible things; some committing adultery, and some walking in lies, and some strengthening the hands of the multitude, that none might turn from his evil way. To me they are all become like Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof like Gomorra: ¹⁵ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will feed them with worm wood, and give them the water of gall to drink. Because from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution has gone forth through all the land,

³⁴ As for the prophet and the priests and the people who say, "The burden of the Lord;" I will punish that man and his house.

¹¹ When I plan a purpose of peace and not evils against you, to grant you this,

²³ "because they have committed iniquity in Israel and have committed adultery with the wives of their fellow citizens, and have delivered as prophets a word in my name, which I did not give them in charge: I myself am witness saith the Lord.

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³³ For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

³⁸ And they shall be my people and I will be their God.

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.

² thou shalt burn the fourth part of it with fire, in the space before the city; during the completion of the days of the siege. And thou shalt take another fourth part and burn it in the midst of the city; and thou shalt hack with the sword another fourth part, around the city; and the other fourth part thou shalt scatter to the wind and I will draw out a sword after them. ³ But of this parcel thou shalt take a few in number and tie them up in thy mantle. ⁴ Yet even of these thou shalt take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them with fire which shall come out of the city and thou shalt say to all the house of Israel

¹² The fourth part of thee shall be consumed with pestilence; and the fourth part of thee shall perish by famine in the midst of thee; and the fourth part of thee shall fall by the sword around thee; and I will make bare a sword to pursue them.

²⁰ that they may walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and execute them. And they shall be my people and I will be their God.

¹² Now when the wall is fallen, will they not say to you, "Where is the anointing with which you anointed it?" ¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will cause a furious tempest to break it down; and there shall be an overwhelming rain in mine anger; And I will bring the hail stones against it with fury for destruction; ¹⁴ and demolish the wall which you anointed; and it shall fall: and lay it flat on the ground and its foundations shall be discovered; and when it shall fall, you shall be consumed with rebukes; and you shall know that I am the Lord. ¹⁵ When I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on them who anoint it; it shall fall. I have indeed said to you, the wall is no more, nor do they exist who anointed it, ¹⁶ namely, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem and who see peace for her when there is no peace, saith the Lord.

²³ therefore you shall no more see falsities, nor shall you any more utter divinations; for I will deliver my people out of your hand and you shall know that I am the Lord.

⁹ And with respect to that prophet when he shall have wandered and spoken; I the Lord have caused that prophet to wander, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

⁴ Because I will root out of thee the lawless and unjust; therefore my sword shall come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from south to north. ⁵ And all flesh shall know, that I the Lord have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It shall not return any more.

⁹ Son of man, prophesy and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Say, sword, sword be sharp, and full of fury that thou mayst slaughter; ¹⁰ be sharpened that thou mayst glisten; being prepared for destruction slay; set at naught; fell every tree.

²⁸ Now as for thee, son of man, prophesy and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, with regard to the Ammonites and their reproach even thus thou shalt say, sword, sword, drawn for slaughter, and drawn for destruction, be lifted up that thou mayst glisten.

¹³ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When I have destroyed the nobles from Memphis, and the chiefs of Memphis out of the land of Egypt, and they shall be no more;

²³ And I will set up over them one shepherd who shall feed them, even my servant David, who shall be their shepherd: ²⁴ and I the Lord will be their God; and David shall be chief among them. I the Lord have spoken;

¹⁷ Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their land, they polluted it with their way and with their idols and with their impurities; and their way was in my view as the uncleanness of a woman in a state of separation;

²⁵ then I will sprinkle upon you pure water, and you shall be cleansed from all your impurities and from all your idols; and when I have cleansed you,

²⁸ And you shall dwell in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people and I will be your God. ²⁹ And I will save you from all your impurities. And I will call for corn and multiply it: and no more send famine among you.

²³ that they may no more be polluted with their idols. And I will deliver them from all their iniquities and purify them from all their sins which they have committed. And they shall be my people, and I the Lord will be their God. ²⁴ And my servant David shall be chief among them. He shall be singly the shepherd of all. Because they will walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and practise them,

²⁷ And I will place my sanctuary in the midst of them forever. And my habitation shall be among them; and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

²⁴ Seventy weeks are set apart for thy people and for the holy city; for finishing sin offerings, and for sealing up sin offerings; and blotting out iniquities, and making atonement for iniquities; and for bringing in an everlasting righteousness; and for sealing vision and prophet; and for anointing the Holy of Holies. ²⁵ Therefore thou art to know and understand, that from the going forth of a word for returning an answer and for building Jerusalem until an Anointed ruler are seven weeks, and sixty two weeks. They shall indeed return and a street shall be built and a wall, and these times shall be emptied out, 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. ²⁷ Now one week shall confirm a covenant for many and in the half of that week my sacrifice and libation shall be taken away. And upon the temple shall be an abomination of the desolations, and at the end of a time, an end shall be put to that desolation.

¹⁷ I will indeed take away the names of the Baalims out of her mouth, and their names shall no more be mentioned.

²¹ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will hearken to the heaven, and it shall hearken to the earth, ²² and the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oil, and they shall hearken to Jezrael; ²³ and I will plant her for myself in the land, and love her who was not beloved; and to them who were not my people I will say, "Thou art my people:" and they will say, "Thou the Lord art my God."

³ In the womb Jacob kicked his brother, but in his troubles he wrestled with God. ⁴ He indeed wrestled with an angel and prevailed. Have they wept or have they supplicated me? Have they found me in the house of On? Or have they been spoken to there? ⁵ The Lord God Almighty was to be his memorial:

⁸ As for Ephraim, what hath he any more to do with idols? I humbled him and I will strengthen him. I am like a fruitful juniper; from me thou shalt find fruit.

³¹ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and illustrious day of the Lord. ³² But whoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved; for on mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall be the Saviour, as the Lord hath said, and the publishers of glad tidings, whom the Lord hath called.

³² But whoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved; for on mount Sion and in Jerusalem shall be the Saviour, as the Lord hath said, and the publishers of glad tidings, whom the Lord hath called.

¹⁴ Whereupon Amos answered and said to Amasias, I was not a prophet, nor a son of a prophet. I was only a herdsman and a gatherer of dates;

⁸ Behold the eyes of the Lord God are against every kingdom of sinners, and I will cut it off from the face of the earth. But because I will not utterly destroy the house of Israel, saith the Lord, ⁹ therefore I order, and I will scatter the house of Israel among all the nations, as if they were winnowed with a fan; and not a morsel of it shall fall on this land.

¹¹ you have been put to flight when there was no pursuer: a spirit hath set up a lie: it hath dropped on thee for wine and plenty. Yet it shall come to pass that from a drop of this people,

⁶ Therefore from vision you shall have night; and from prophesying you shall have darkness. And the sun shall set upon the prophets, and upon them the day shall darken: ⁷ and the seers of dreams shall be put to shame; and the diviners shall be laughed to scorn, and reviled by all; for none will hearken to them.

² But as for thee, Bethlehem, thou house of Ephratha, art thou too little to be one of the chiliads of Juda? Out of thee one shall come forth for me to be the chief of Israel. His goings forth have been from the beginning; from the days of an age.

⁴ And they will stand and look and the Lord will feed his flock with majesty; and in the glory of the name of the Lord their God they shall subsist; because they shall now be magnified to the ends of the earth;

¹² And I will cut off thy sorceries out of thy hands and in thee shall be no diviners. ¹³ And I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars from the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the works of thy hands. ¹⁴ And I will cut down the groves from amidst thee and utterly destroy thy cities;

³ Let man and beast perish. Let the birds of the air and the fishes of the sea perish. As for the wicked, they shall be without strength; and I will remove transgressions from the face of this land, saith the Lord. ⁴ I will indeed stretch forth my hand against Juda, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will remove out of this place the names of Baal and the names of her priests;

¹¹ The Lord will display himself illustriously against them, and will root out all the gods of the nations of the earth, and all the isles of the nations shall worship him, every one from his place;

⁸ And I will gather them and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness.

⁶ And I will strengthen the house of Juda, and save the house of Joseph, and settle them in their houses, because I have loved them: and they shall be as if I had not cast them off; for I am the Lord their God and I will hearken to them:

⁴ Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, you are feeding the flock prepared for slaughter,

⁶ Therefore I will no more spare the inhabitants of this land, saith the Lord. Now behold I deliver up the men, every one into the hand of his neighbour, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand. ⁷ Again I will feed the flock of the slaughter for Chananites; and I will take me two staves, one I had called Beauty, and the other I called Portion; and I will feed the flock,

⁷ Again I will feed the flock of the slaughter for Chananites; and I will take me two staves, one I had called Beauty, and the other I called Portion; and I will feed the flock, ⁸ and remove three shepherds in one month; and my soul will be weighed down against them. For as their souls roared against me, ⁹ therefore I said, I will not feed you, What is dying let it die; and what is fainting let it faint. And as for the rest, let them devour every one the flesh of his neighbour.

¹¹ And on that day it shall be broken; and the Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know for what cause there is a word of the Lord.

³ and in that day I will make Jerusalem a stone to be trampled by all the nations: every one who trampleth her will make her his mocking stock. When all the nations of the earth shall be gathered against her,

⁷ And the Lord will save the dwellings of Juda as at the beginning. That the boasting of the house of David may not be magnified, nor the elevation of the inhabitants of Jerusalem depend upon Juda, ⁸ The Lord will indeed, in that day, spread a shield over the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the weak among them shall in that day be like David, and the house of David like the house of God; like an angel of the Lord before them.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born.

¹⁰ And when I pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and compassion, then will they look to him whom they pierced, and they will mourn for him with a mourning as for a beloved; and be afflicted with sorrow as for a first born. ¹¹ In that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of a pomegranate grove cut down in the plain.

¹ Behold days of the Lord are coming, when thy spoils shall be divided in thee. ² I will indeed gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women polluted. And the half of the city shall go forth into captivity. As for the remainder of my people they shall not be utterly cut off. From this city,

¹ Behold I am about to send my messenger and he will examine the way before me. And the Lord whom ye seek; even the angel of the covenant whom you desire will come suddenly to his temple. Behold he is coming, saith the Lord Almighty. ² And who can abide the day of his coming? Or who can stand his appearance? Since he is coming like the fire of a refiner's furnace; and like the soap of the fullers.

² And who can abide the day of his coming? Or who can stand his appearance? Since he is coming like the fire of a refiner's furnace; and like the soap of the fullers. ³ He will sit refining and purifying and will purify the sons of Levi like the silver and gold, and melt them like the gold and silver. Then shall they offer to the Lord a sacrifice in righteousness

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.

¹ For behold a day is coming, heated like an oven, which shall set them on fire. And all aliens and all workers of iniquity shall be like stubble. The day which is coming shall blaze upon them, saith the Lord Almighty, and of them neither root nor branch shall be left. ² But to you who fear my name the son of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth and leap for joy like young bullocks loosed from yokes. ³ And you shall trample down the wicked, for they will be like ashes under your feet, on the day which I make, saith the Lord Almighty.

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

⁴ Now John had his raiment made of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his waist: and his food was locusts and wild honey:

¹⁰ Now the axe is at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore which doth not produce good fruit is to be cut down and cast into the fire. ¹¹ I indeed baptize you in water for a reformation; but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in a holy spirit and fire. ¹² His winnowing instrument is in his hand. He will thoroughly clean his floor, and gather his wheat for the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

¹⁵ Now beware of false teachers, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but are inwardly ravenous wolves.

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

⁴² And whoever shall give any one of these little ones, were it only a cup of cold water to drink, on the account of his being a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

⁸ But what went ye out to see? A man clothed with soft raiment? Behold they, who wear delicate apparel, frequent the palaces of kings. ⁹ But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yes I tell you, and something more than a prophet;

²⁷ All things are delivered up to me by my father; and none but the father knoweth the son; nor doth any know the father, but only the son, and he to whom the son is pleased to reveal him.

⁴³ When the unclean spirit hath gone out of the man, it walketh through dry places seeking rest, but doth not find it.

¹⁰ Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, Their angels in heaven do continually behold the face of my father who is in heaven.

¹⁴ Thus it is not the will of your father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

⁴³ Therefore I say to you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation producing the fruits thereof. ⁴⁴ And he who falleth on that stone will be bruised, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

⁷ When the king heard this he was incensed, and sent forth his armies, and destroyed the murderers, and burned their city.

²⁹ In reply to which, Jesus said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the future state, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. ³¹ But in respect to the revival of the dead. Have you not read what was spoken to you: by God, saying, ³² "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob," God is not the God of the dead; but of the living.

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. ³⁷ O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! thou that killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent to thee! how often have I desired to gather thy children even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings; but you would not!

²¹ For there will then be great affliction, such as hath not happened from the beginning of the world till now: no, nor ever shall be. ²² Indeed if those days were not shortened, no flesh could escape. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be shortened.

³¹ Then Jesus saith to them, You will all be stumbled at me this night; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed!

⁵⁶ But all this is done that the writings of the prophets may be confirmed. Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

⁶ Now John's clothing was of camel's hair and he had a leathern girdle about his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey.

²⁰ And had not the Lord shortened those days, no flesh could escape. But for the sake of the chosen, whom he hath made choice of, he hath shortened those days.

²⁷ And Jesus saith to them, This night you will all be stumbled at me. For it is written, "will smite the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered."

⁵⁰ Then all forsook him, and fled.

²⁰ But if I, with the finger of God, expel the demons, then indeed the kingdom of God hath reached you.

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

²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

² It would be better for him to have a millstone hanged about his neck and to be thrown into the sea, than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

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

¹⁶ He will come and destroy those husbandmen and give the vineyard to others. Upon hearing this, they said, God forbid. ¹⁷ But he looking earnestly at them, said, "What then is the meaning of this passage of scripture, The stone which the builders rejected was the very one for the head of the corner! ¹⁸ Whosoever falleth on this stone will be bruised; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

²⁰ and when you see Jerusalem encompassed by armies, then know that its desolation is near. ²¹ Then let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let them who are in the midst of this [city] withdraw; and let not them who are in the regions enter it. ²² Because these are days of vengeance that all which are written may be accomplished; ²³ alas therefore for the women with child and for them who give suck in those days; for there will be great distress in this land and wrath on this people. 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.

²⁸ Whereupon, Jesus turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children; ²⁹ for lo! days are coming in which they will say, Happy the barren, and the wombs which never bare, and the breasts which never gave suck. ³⁰ Then will they begin to say to the mountains, Fall upon us: and to the hills, Cover us.

¹ In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God.

²⁹ The next day John seeth Jesus coming towards him, and saith, Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!

¹⁴ But as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the son of man be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whosoever believeth in him may not perish; but have everlasting life. ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world may be saved by him.

¹⁷ Thereupon Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even now, and I also work. ¹⁸ For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath, but called God peculiarly his father, likening himself to God.

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.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham was, I am.

¹⁰ The thief cometh only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that the sheep may have life and that they may have it superabundantly. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd exposeth his life for the sheep. ¹² But the hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he seeth the wolf coming leaveth the sheep and fleeth; and the wolf seizeth some and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hireling fleeth because he is a hireling and careth not for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd and I know mine own sheep, and am known by them who are mine, ¹⁵ even as the father knoweth me, and I know the father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ Now I have other sheep which are not of this fold. These also I must lead; they will hearken to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. ¹⁷ On this account the father loveth me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it again. ¹⁸ No one forceth it from me; but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commission I have received from my father.

³⁰ I and my father are one.

³⁸ But if I do; though you do not believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him.

¹ Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God: trust also in me.

⁹ Jesus saith to him, Am I so long a time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He who hath seen me hath seen the Father: how then sayest thou, Shew us the Father? ¹⁰ Dost thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words which I speak to you, I do not speak from myself. And it is the Father himself abiding in me who doth the works. ¹¹ Believe me that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me. At least believe me on account of the works themselves.

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

¹⁵ All that the Father hath is mine; therefore I said, He will receive of mine, and communicate to you.

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.

²¹ that all may be one as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us that the world may believe that thou hast sent me, ²² and that I have given them the glory which thou gavest me, that they may be one as we are one ²³ I in them and thou in me, that they may be taken into union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

⁸ Jesus replied, I have told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way; ⁹ that the word might be fulfilled which he spake, saying, "Of them whom thou gavest me I have lost none."

³⁵ Pilate answered him, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation, even the chief priests, have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done?

¹⁴ [It was now the paschal preparation day, and the sixth hour was drawing on,] and he saith to the Jews, Behold your king! ¹⁵ Whereupon they cried out, Away, away with him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. ¹⁶ Then he delivered him up to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away,

³⁴ But one of the soldiers with his spear pierced his side, and blood and water issued forth immediately. ³⁵ Now he who was an eye witness hath testified this. And his testimony is true, and [Jesus] himself knoweth that he speaketh the truth that you may believe.

²¹ And it shall come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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

²⁶ The kings of the earth combined, and the chiefs assembled together against the Lord and against his Anointed." ²⁷ For indeed against thy holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and the tribes of Israel, were gathered together, ²⁸ to do what thy hand and thy council had determinately marked out beforehand to be brought to pass.

¹⁷ And this was known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who dwelt at Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all. And the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. ¹⁸ And many of them who believed came and confessed, and made a public acknowledgment of their deeds. ¹⁹ And several of them having practised magical arts, brought their books and burned them publicly, the value of them by computation amounting to fifty thousand pieces of silver. ²⁰ So powerfully did the word of the Lord increase and prevail.

²⁴ They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is by Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God heretofore exhibited as a mercy seat by faith in his blood, that, on account of the remission of past sins, during the forbearance of God, ²⁶ it might be an indication of this justification of his, pointing to a display of this justification of his at this time, in order to shew this, That he is just and the justifier of him who is a believer in Jesus.

²⁵ who was delivered up for our offences and raised again for our justification.

⁶ For while we were yet without strength, Christ In due time died for the ungodly: ⁷ for scarcely will any one die for a just man; though perhaps for the good some one may even flare to die: ⁸ but God confirmeth his love for us, because while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more therefore shall we, being now acquitted by his blood, be saved by him from the wrath; ¹⁰ For if we, when enemies, were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more shall we, being reconciled, be saved by his life.

³² He who spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely grant us all things?

²⁷ Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, "Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, this remnant shall be saved." ²⁸ For he is closing an account and making a deduction with saving goodness. Because the Lord will make with the land a reckoning from which a deduction is made, ²⁹ therefore as Esaias said. "Had not the Lord of hosts left us a seed, we must have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah."

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?

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, ³ "Lord, they have slain thy prophets and demolished thine altars; and I alone am left, and they seek my life." ⁴ What doth the divine oracle say to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed a knee to Baal." ⁵ In like manner, therefore, at this present time there is a remnant according to a choice of favour.

¹¹ For no one can lay any other foundation than that which is laid, which is Jesus The Christ. ¹² Now if upon this foundation any one buildeth gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; ¹³ the work of every one will be made manifest; for the day will shew it: Because it is revealed with fire, therefore the fire will prove every one's work of what sort it is.

¹¹ Now such some of you were; but, you have washed yourselves; but you are hallowed, but you are acquitted by the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God.

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no one after the flesh. Nay though we indeed knew Christ after the flesh, yet we now know him so no more.

²¹ for he hath made him who knew no sin, a sin offering for us, that by him we may be made the righteousness of God;

¹³ For such as they are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. ¹⁴ Nor is this to be wondered at; for Satan himself putteth on the appearance of an angel of light: ¹⁵ No wonder, then, if his ministers transform themselves to appear like ministers of righteousness. But their end will be according to their works.

¹³ From this curse of the law Christ hath redeemed us, being made a curse for us; [for it is written, "Cursed, is every one who is suspended on a cross,"]

²⁵ Husbands love your wives, even as the Christ loved the congregation, and gave himself up for it, ²⁶ that having purified it with the bath of the water, he might hallow it; indeed ²⁷ that he might present it to himself as the glorious congregation, having neither spot, nor wrinkle, nor any defect whatever; but that it may be holy and without blemish.

⁶ who being in the form of God did not think it robbery to be like God,

¹⁵ who is an image of the invisible God, a first born of the whole creation. ¹⁶ Because all the things which are in the heavens and which are on the earth were created by him, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, they were all created by him, and for him; ¹⁷ therefore he is before all, and they are all kept in consistence by him, ¹⁸ and he is the head of the body, namely of the congregation. He who is the beginning is a first born from the dead that in all things he might be pre-eminent. ¹⁹ Because all the plenitude was pleased to dwell in him, and by him to reconcile all to himself, ²⁰ he having by the blood of his cross"by himself, brought them to be at peace, [whether they be the things on earth or the things in heaven,]

¹⁵ [from those indeed who slew the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God, and are in opposition to all men, ¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the nations that they may be saved; thus, filling up the measure of their sins continually: but the wrath is at last coming upon them,]

⁵ not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy; he saved us by a bath of regeneration, and a renewal of a holy spirit, ⁶ which he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our saviour, ⁷ in order that we, being pardoned by his favour, might become expectant heirs of everlasting life.

⁶ And again when he would bring the first born into the world, he saith, "And let all God's messengers worship him. ⁷ Now in respect to the messengers it is said, "Who maketh winds his messengers, and flaming fire his ministers: ⁸ but with respect to the son, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: The sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of rectitude: ⁹ Thou didst love righteousness and hate iniquity, Therefore God, thy God anointed thee With the oil of joy above thy associates!" ¹⁰ Again, "Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of thy hand. ¹¹ They shall perish, but thou wilt endure. They shall all wax old like a garment, ¹² And like a mantle thou wilt fold them up and they shall be changed :But as for thee, thou art the same And thy years shall have no end".

¹⁰ This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, After these days, saith the Lord, adapting my laws to their understanding I will write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹³ For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean sanctify, to the cleansing of the flesh; ¹⁴ how much more will the' blood of the Christ, who by an eternal spirit hath offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works that you may serve the living God.

⁵ Therefore when coming into the world he saith, "Sacrifices and offering? thou didst not desire, but preparedst for me a body. ⁶ In whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin thou hadst no pleasure; ⁷ then I said, Behold I come [in the volume of a book it is written of me] to perform, O God, thy will." ⁸ Having first said, "Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt offerings, and offerings for sins thou didst not desire, nor take pleasure in them," [These were offered according to the law] ⁹ He then said, "Behold I come to perform, O God, thy will" [he taketh away the first that he may establish the second]. ¹⁰ by which will we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once only.

²⁰ Now may the God of this peace, who raised from the dead the shepherd of the flock, who is great by the blood of an everlasting covenant, namely, our Lord Jesus,

¹² Happy the man, who endureth a trial! because having stood the test, he will Jas 1:receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them who love him.

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

¹⁸ knowing that from that vain course of life, handed down to you from your fathers, you have been redeemed not with perishable things such as silver and gold, ¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot,

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, ²⁰ fore-ordained indeed before the foundation of the world, and manifested in these last times, for the sake of you

²⁴ who himself offered up our sins in his own body on the cross, that we, being freed from those sins, might live for righteousness; "by whose stripes you have been healed." ²⁵ For you were like sheep going astray, but are now brought back to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

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

¹² Beloved, be not surprized at the fiery trial among you, which is come upon you to try you, as if some strange thing had befallen you:

⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

¹ Now there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will introduce destructive sects, denying even the Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves speedy destruction. ² And many will follow their pernicious courses, on the account of whom the way of the truth will be ill spoken of. ³ Indeed, with insatiable covetousness, they will, with smooth words, make merchandize of you. But the judgment prepared of old for them is not idle, nor is their destruction slumbering.

¹⁵ having forsaken the right road they have gone quite astray, following the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity, ¹⁶ and was convicted of his transgression. [A dumb beast, speaking with a human voice, restrained the madness of the prophet.] ¹⁷ They are wells without water; clouds impelled by a whirlwind, for whom is reserved in the bowels of the earth the gloom of everlasting darkness. ¹⁸ For uttering, with a solemn tone, swelling words of vanity, they by the lusts of the flesh. by acts of lasciviousness, ensnare them who are indeed flying from those conversant in error; ¹⁹ promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves to corruption; for by whatever one is subdued, by that he is enslaved

⁷ But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin.

² and he is an atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world.

¹ Beloved, trust not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they be of God; for many false teachers, are gone forth into the world. ² By this you know the spirit of God; every spirit which acknowledged! Jesus Christ come in flesh, is of God.

⁹ By this the love of God was manifested among us, because God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we may live by him. ¹⁰ In this is the love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be an atonement for our sins.

⁶ This Jesus is the Christ, whose coming was pointed out by water and by blood, not by the water only, but by the water and the blood; and the spirit is testifying this. Because the spirit is the truth,

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

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end," saith the Lord, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

¹¹ saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega; the first and the last," and "what thou seest, write in a book, and send it to the seven congregations which are in Asia, to Ephesus and to Smyrna, and to Pergamus, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

¹⁷ And when I saw him I fell at his feet as one dead. Whereupon he laid his right hand on me, and said to me, "Fear not. I am the first and the last,

²³ and I will slay her children with death; and all the congregations shall know, that I am the searcher of reins and hearts, and will give to every one of you according to your works.

¹³ 'Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these who are clad in white robes? and whence came they?" ¹⁴ And I said to him, "Sir, thou knowest" Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of great affliction and have washed their robes and made them white by the blood of the Lamb.

⁷ And the first angel sounded; and there was hail and fire mingled with blood which were thrown on the earth and the third part of the trees was burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. ⁸ And the second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain blazing with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood; ⁹ and the third part of the creatures, which were in the sea and which had life, died; and the third part of the ships was destroyed. ¹⁰ And the third angel sounded; and there fell from heaven a great star blazing like a torch; and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and on the fountains of the waters. ¹¹ [Now the name of the star is called wormwood.] And the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many of the men died of the waters because they were made bitter. ¹² And the fourth angel sounded; and the third part of the sun, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars were smitten, so that the third part of them was darkened and the day did not shine the third part of it and in like manner the night.

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

⁸ and it is to be worshipped by all the inhabitants of the earth whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

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.

¹¹ And the smoke of their torment riseth up for ages of ages. There is no rest day or night for them who worship the beast and its image, nor for any who receiveth the mark of its name.

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.

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;

² and he cried mightily, saying with a loud voice, It is fallen! Babylon the great is fallen, and is become the habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,

²⁰ And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who did these signs before him by which he led astray them who had received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. Both these were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone;

¹ Then I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the bottomless gulf and a great chain in his hand; ² and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years ³ and cast him into the bottomless gulf and shut him up, and sealed it on him that he might not lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were ended. And after that he must be loosed for a short time.

³ And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God with men! and he will dwell with them; and they will be his people; and God himself will be with them their God. ⁴ And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there shall no more be death; nor shall grief, nor screaming, nor pain be any more; for the former things are gone.

⁶ and he said to me, It is done; I am the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end; to him who thirsteth I will give without cost from the fountain of the water of life. ⁷ He who overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son:

¹³ I am the Alpha and the Omega: the beginning and the end; the first and the last. ¹⁴ Happy they who perform his commandments that they may have access to the tree of life and enter by the gates into the city: ¹⁵ but without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the prostitutes and the murderers and the idolaters and every one who loveth and practiseth falsehood. ¹⁶ I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David; the bright and the morning star.