Psalms 76 Cross References - YLT

¹ To the Overseer with stringed instruments. —A Psalm of Asaph. —A Song. In Judah is God known, in Israel His name is great. ² And His tabernacle is in Salem, And His habitation in Zion. ³ There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah. ⁴ Bright art Thou, honourable above hills of prey. ⁵ Spoiled themselves have the mighty of heart, They have slept their sleep, And none of the men of might found their hands. ⁶ From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep.
⁷ Thou, fearful art Thou, And who doth stand before Thee, Since Thou hast been angry! ⁸ From heaven Thou hast sounded judgment, Earth hath feared, and hath been still, ⁹ In the rising of God to judgment, To save all the humble of earth. Selah. ¹⁰ For the fierceness of man praiseth Thee, The remnant of fierceness Thou girdest on. ¹¹ Vow and complete to Jehovah your God, All ye surrounding him. They bring presents to the Fearful One. ¹² He doth gather the spirit of leaders, Fearful to the kings of earth!

⁷ `For which is the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him? ⁸ and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

³⁴ Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors—according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes? ³⁵ Thou, thou hast been shewn it, to know that Jehovah He is God; there is none else besides Him. ³⁶ `From the heavens He hath caused thee to hear His voice, to instruct thee, and on earth He hath shewed thee His great fire, and His words thou hast heard out of the midst of the fire.

¹⁰ And David blesseth Jehovah before the eyes of all the assembly, and David saith, `Blessed art Thou, Jehovah, God of Israel our father, from age even unto age. ¹¹ To Thee, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the might, and the beauty, and the victory, and the honour, because of all in the heavens and in the earth; to Thee, O Jehovah, is the kingdom, and he who is lifting up himself over all for head; ¹² and the riches, and the honour are from before Thee, and Thou art ruling over all, and in Thy hand is power and might, and in Thy hand, to make great, and to give strength to all.

⁵ `And the house that I am building is great, for greater is our God than all gods; ⁶ and who doth retain strength to build to Him a house, for the heavens, even the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Him? and who am I that I do build to Him a house, except to make perfume before Him?

¹ To the Overseer with Stringed Instruments. —A Psalm of David. In my calling answer Thou me, O God of my righteousness. In adversity Thou gavest enlargement to me; Favour me, and hear my prayer.

¹ A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, In the city of our God—His holy hill. ² Beautiful for elevation, A joy of all the land, is Mount Zion, The sides of the north, the city of a great king. ³ God in her high places is known for a tower.

¹ To the Overseer with stringed instruments. —An instruction, by David, in the coming in of the Ziphim, and they say to Saul, `Is not David hiding himself with us?' O God, by Thy name save me, and by Thy might judge me.

¹ To the Overseer, on stringed instruments. —By David. Hear, O God, my loud cry, attend to my prayer.

¹ To the Overseer, with stringed instruments. —A Psalm, a Song. God doth favour us and bless us, Doth cause His face to shine with us. Selah.

² Jehovah hath made known His salvation, Before the eyes of the nations, He hath revealed His righteousness, ³ He hath remembered His kindness, And His faithfulness to the house of Israel, All ends of earth have seen the salvation of our God.

¹⁹ Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!

¹³ They praise the name of Jehovah, For His name alone hath been set on high, His honour is above earth and heavens. ¹⁴ And He exalteth the horn of His people, The praise of all His saints, Of the sons of Israel, a people near Him. Praise ye Jah!

²⁹ And by me a decree is made, that any people, nation, and language, that doth speak erroneously concerning the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, pieces he is made, and its house is made a dunghill, because that there is no other god who is able thus to deliver.'

¹ `Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations, and languages, who are dwelling in all the earth: Your peace be great! ² The signs and wonders that God Most High hath done with me, it is good before me to shew.

²³ for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God—unknown; whom, therefore—not knowing—ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

¹⁷ Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

¹⁸ And Melchizedek king of Salem hath brought out bread and wine, and he is priest of God Most High;

⁶ and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.

¹¹ Sing ye praise to Jehovah, inhabiting Zion, Declare ye among the peoples His acts,

⁵ For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

¹³ For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired it for a seat to Himself, ¹⁴ This is My rest for ever and ever, Here do I sit, for I have desired it.

⁶ Cry aloud, and sing, O inhabitant of Zion, For great in thy midst is the Holy One of Israel!'

⁶ And He shaketh as a garden His tabernacle, He hath destroyed His appointed place, Jehovah hath forgotten in Zion the appointed time and sabbath, And despiseth, in the indignation of His anger, king and priest.

¹ For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who did meet Abraham turning back from the smiting of the kings, and did bless him, ² to whom also a tenth of all did Abraham divide, (first, indeed, being interpreted, `King of righteousness,' and then also, King of Salem, which is, King of Peace,)

¹² And Jehovah smiteth the Cushim before Asa, and before Judah, and the Cushim flee, ¹³ and Asa and the people who are with him pursue them even to Gerar, and there fall of the Cushim, for they have no preserving, because they have been broken before Jehovah, and before His camp; and they bear away very much spoil,

²⁵ and Jehoshaphat cometh in, and his people, to seize their spoil, and they find among them, in abundance, both goods and carcases, and desirable vessels, and they take spoil to themselves without prohibition, and they are three days seizing the spoil, for it is abundant.

²¹ and Jehovah sendeth a messenger, and cutteth off every mighty one of valour—both leader and head—in the camp of the king of Asshur, and he turneth back with shame of face to his land, and entereth the house of his god, and those coming out of his bowels have caused him to fall there by the sword.

⁹ Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

³⁵ And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.' ³⁶ And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

³ And have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, Yea, thine arrows out of thy right I cause to fall. ⁴ On mountains of Israel thou fallest, Thou, and all thy bands, and the peoples who are with thee, To ravenous fowl—a bird of every wing, And to a beast of the field, I have given thee for food.

⁹ And gone out have the inhabitants of cities of Israel, And they have burned and kindled a fire, With armour, and shield, and buckler, With bow, and with arrows, And with hand-staves, and with javelins, And they have caused a fire to burn with them seven years, ¹⁰ And they do not take wood out of the field, Nor do they hew out of the forests, For with armour they cause the fire to burn, And they have spoiled their spoilers, And they have plundered their plunderers, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

⁷ Gone up hath a lion from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations hath journeyed, He hath come forth from his place To make thy land become a desolation, Thy cities are laid waste, without inhabitant.

¹ And thou, lift up a lamentation unto princes of Israel, ² and thou hast said: What is thy mother? —a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps. ³ And she bringeth up one of her whelps, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured. ⁴ And hear of it do nations, In their pit it hath been caught, And they bring it in with chains unto the land of Egypt.

⁶ And it goeth up and down in the midst of lions, A young lion it hath been, And it learneth to tear prey, man it hath devoured.

¹² To take a spoil, and to take a prey, To turn back thy hand on inhabited wastes, And on a people gathered out of nations, Making cattle and substance, Dwelling on a high part of the land. ¹³ Sheba, and Dedan, and merchants of Tarshish, And all its young lions say to thee: To take a spoil art thou come in? To take a prey assembled thine assembly? To bear away silver and gold? To take away cattle and substance? To take a great spoil?

⁴ The first is like a lion, and it hath an eagle's wings. I was seeing till that its wings have been plucked, and it hath been lifted up from the earth, and on feet as a man it hath been caused to stand, and a heart of man is given to it. ⁵ And lo, another beast, a second, like to a bear, and to the same authority it hath been raised, and three ribs are in its mouth, between its teeth, and thus they are saying to it, Rise, consume much flesh. ⁶ `After this I was seeing, and lo, another like a leopard, and it hath four wings of a fowl on its back, and four heads hath the beast, and dominion is given to it. <sup>7</sup> `After this I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and fearful, and exceedingly strong; and it hath iron teeth very great, it hath consumed, yea, it doth break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath trampled; and it is diverse from all the beasts that are before it; and it hath ten horns. ⁸ `I was considering about the horns, and lo, another horn, a little one, hath come up between them, and three of the first horns have been eradicated from before it, and lo, eyes as the eyes of man are in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

¹⁷ `These great beasts, that are four, are four kings, they rise up from the earth; <sup>18</sup> and receive the kingdom do the saints of the Most High, and they strengthen the kingdom unto the age, even unto the age of the ages. <sup>19</sup> `Then I wished for certainty concerning the fourth beast, that was diverse from them all, fearful exceedingly; its teeth of iron, and its nails of brass, it hath devoured, it doth break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath trampled; ²⁰ and concerning the ten horns that are in its heads, and of the other that came up, and before which three have fallen, even of that horn that hath eyes, and a mouth speaking great things, and whose appearance is great above its companions. ²¹ `I was seeing, and this horn is making war with the saints, and hath prevailed over them, <sup>22</sup> till that the Ancient of Days hath come, and judgment is given to the saints of the Most High, and the time hath come, and the saints have strengthened the kingdom. <sup>23</sup> `Thus he said: The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom in the earth, that is diverse from all kingdoms, and it consumeth all the earth, and treadeth it down, and breaketh it small. ²⁴ And the ten horns out of the kingdom are ten kings, they rise, and another doth rise after them, and it is diverse from the former, and three kings it humbleth; ²⁵ and words as an adversary of the Most High it doth speak, and the saints of the Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth to change seasons and law; and they are given into its hand, till a time, and times, and a division of a time. ²⁶ `And the Judge is seated, and its dominion they cause to pass away, to cut off, and to destroy—unto the end; <sup>27</sup> and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens, is given to the people—the saints of the Most High, His kingdom is a kingdom age-during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him. <sup>28</sup> `Hitherto is the end of the matter. I, Daniel, greatly do my thoughts trouble me, and my countenance is changed on me, and the matter in my heart I have kept.

¹⁰ Put on, I pray thee, excellency and loftiness, Yea, honour and beauty put on. ¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low. ¹² See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

³ Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,

⁸ And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword—not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.

³⁶ And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

¹² Hearken unto Me, ye mighty in heart, Who are far from righteousness.

³⁹ In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not—an affirmation of Jehovah.

²¹ The arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, I have broken, And lo, it hath not been bound up to give healing, To put a bandage to bind it, To strengthen it—to lay hold on the sword. ²² Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand, ²³ And scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands, ²⁴ And strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And I have given My sword into his hand, And I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, And he hath groaned the groans of a pierced one—before him. ²⁵ And I have strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And the arms of Pharaoh do fall down, And they have known that I am Jehovah, In My giving My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath stretched it out toward the land of Egypt.

³⁷ `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

¹⁸ Slumbered have thy friends, king of Asshur, Rest do thine honourable ones, Scattered have been thy people on the mountains, And there is none gathering.

⁵¹ He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart, ⁵² He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,

²⁷ And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the sea, and the sea turneth back, at the turning of the morning, to its perennial flow, and the Egyptians are fleeing at its coming, and Jehovah shaketh off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, ²⁸ and the waters turn back, and cover the chariots and the horsemen, even all the force of Pharaoh, who are coming in after them into the sea—there hath not been left of them even one.

¹ Then singeth Moses and the sons of Israel this song to Jehovah, and they speak, saying: —`I sing to Jehovah, For triumphing He hath triumphed; The horse and its rider He hath thrown into the sea.

⁴ Chariots of Pharaoh and his force He hath cast into the sea; And the choice of his captains Have sunk in the Red Sea! ⁵ The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone. ⁶ Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Is become honourable in power; Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Doth crush an enemy.

¹⁰ Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters.

²¹ and Miriam answereth to them: —`Sing ye to Jehovah, For Triumphing He hath triumphed; The horse and its rider He hath thrown into the sea!'

¹² And David taketh the spear, and the cruse of water at the pillow of Saul, and they go away, and there is none seeing, and there is none knowing, and there is none awaking, for all of them are sleeping, for a deep sleep from Jehovah hath fallen upon them.

¹⁸ and Aram fleeth from the presence of Israel, and David slayeth of Aram seven hundred charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen, and Shobach head of its host he hath smitten, and he dieth there.

¹⁵ And seen are the streams of waters, And revealed are foundations of the earth. From Thy rebuke, O Jehovah, From the breath of the spirit of Thine anger.

¹⁶ Burnt with fire—cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

⁷ From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

⁵⁷ And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not—an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

²⁰ And ye have been satisfied at My table with horse and rider, Mighty man, and every man of war, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

⁶ Before His indignation who doth stand? And who riseth up in the heat of His anger? His fury hath been poured out like fire, And the rocks have been broken by Him.

¹³ Lo, I am against thee, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have burned in smoke its chariot, And thy young lions consume doth a sword, And I have cut off from the land thy prey, And not heard any more is the voice of thy messengers!

⁴ In that day—an affirmation of Jehovah, I do smite every horse with astonishment, And its rider with madness, And on the house of Judah I open My eyes, And every horse of the peoples I smite with blindness.

²⁵ For great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, And fearful He is above all gods.

¹⁵ `O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteous art Thou, for we have been left an escape, as it is this day; lo, we are before Thee in our guilt, for there is none to stand before Thee concerning this.'

¹² Kiss the Chosen One, lest He be angry, And ye lose the way, When His anger burneth but a little, O the happiness of all trusting in Him!

⁷ God is very terrible, In the secret counsel of His holy ones, And fearful over all surrounding Him.

¹¹ Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear—Thy wrath?

³ If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

⁷ Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee. ⁸ And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself. ⁹ Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple is their clothing, Work of the skilful—all of them. ¹⁰ And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.

²⁸ `And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

²² do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

¹⁶ and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,' ¹⁷ because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?

⁷ saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and fountains of waters.'

⁴ who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone art kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'

¹⁰ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go unto the people; and thou hast sanctified them to-day and to-morrow, and they have washed their garments,

²⁰ From the heavens they fought: The stars from their highways fought with Sisera.

³⁰ Be pained before Him, all the earth:

²⁹ And there is a fear of God on all kingdoms of the lands in their hearing that Jehovah hath fought with the enemies of Israel, ³⁰ and the kingdom of Jehoshaphat is quiet, and his God giveth rest to him round about.

²⁰ And Hezekiah the king prayeth, and Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, concerning this, and they cry to the heavens, ²¹ and Jehovah sendeth a messenger, and cutteth off every mighty one of valour—both leader and head—in the camp of the king of Asshur, and he turneth back with shame of face to his land, and entereth the house of his god, and those coming out of his bowels have caused him to fall there by the sword. ²² And Jehovah saveth Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Asshur, and from the hand of all, and He leadeth them round about;

¹⁰ Desist, and know that I am God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

²⁰ And rushed from My presence have fishes of the sea, And the fowl of the heavens, And the beast of the field, And every creeping thing that is creeping on the ground, And all men who are on the face of the ground, And thrown down have been the mountains, And fallen have the ascents, And every wall to the earth falleth. ²¹ And I have called against him, to all My mountains a sword, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, The sword of each is against his brother. ²² And I have been judged with him, With pestilence and with blood, And an overflowing rain and hailstones, Fire and brimstone I rain on him, and on his bands, And on many peoples who are with him. ²³ And I have magnified Myself, and sanctified Myself, And I have been known before the eyes of many nations, And they have known that I am Jehovah!

²⁰ And Jehovah is in His holy temple, Be silent before Him, all the earth!

¹³ Hush, all flesh, because of Jehovah, For He hath been roused up from His holy habitation!'

⁷ And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne. ⁸ And He judgeth the world in righteousness, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness. ⁹ And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

⁴ He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

² Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked lift up? Selah. ³ Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous. ⁴ Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them. ⁵ They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

⁴ For Jehovah is pleased with His people, He beautifieth the humble with salvation.

⁴ And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.

²⁸ They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless—and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

³ Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.

⁵ `Happy the meek—because they shall inherit the land.

⁴ but—the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

¹⁸ And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death. ¹⁹ And they say one unto another, `Lo, this man of the dreams cometh; ²⁰ and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'

²⁶ And Judah saith unto his brethren, `What gain when we slay our brother, and have concealed his blood? ²⁷ Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he is our brother—our flesh;' and his brethren hearken. ²⁸ And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silverlings, and they bring Joseph into Egypt.

²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil—God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

¹⁶ `And yet for this I have caused thee to stand, so as to show thee My power, and for the sake of declaring My Name in all the earth; ¹⁷ still thou art exalting thyself against My people—so as not to send them away;

⁹ The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: — ¹⁰ Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters. ¹¹ Who is like Thee among the gods, O Jehovah? Who is like Thee—honourable in holiness—Fearful in praises—doing wonders?

¹¹ now I have known that Jehovah is greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly—He is above them!'

⁶ Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

⁷ Restraining the noise of seas, the noise of their billows, And the multitude of the peoples.

⁹ A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar hath been full of fury, and the expression of his face hath been changed concerning Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; he answered and said to heat the furnace seven times above that which it is seen to be heated; ²⁰ and to certain mighty men who are in his force he hath said to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the burning fiery furnace.

¹³ And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.' <sup>14</sup> And he, having risen, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt, <sup>15</sup> and he was there till the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, `Out of Egypt I did call My Son.'
¹⁶ Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.

²² And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

²⁶ the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ; ²⁷ for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, ²⁸ to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

³ and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also—and they were the days of the unleavened food— ⁴ whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.
⁵ Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him, ⁶ and when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night was Peter sleeping between two soldiers, having been bound with two chains, guards also before the door were keeping the prison, ⁷ and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood by, and a light shone in the buildings, and having smitten Peter on the side, he raised him up, saying, `Rise in haste,' and his chains fell from off his hands. <sup>8</sup> The messenger also said to him, `Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals;' and he did so; and he saith to him, `Put thy garment round and be following me;' <sup>9</sup> and having gone forth, he was following him, and he knew not that it is true that which is done through the messenger, and was thinking he saw a vision, <sup>10</sup> and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one street, and immediately the messenger departed from him. <sup>11</sup> And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;' ¹² also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying. ¹³ And Peter having knocked at the door of the porch, there came a damsel to hearken, by name Rhoda, ¹⁴ and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of the standing of Peter before the porch, ¹⁵ and they said unto her, `Thou art mad;' and she was confidently affirming it to be so, and they said, `It is his messenger;' ¹⁶ and Peter was continuing knocking, and having opened, they saw him, and were astonished, ¹⁷ and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, `Declare to James and to the brethren these things;' and having gone forth, he went on to another place. ¹⁸ And day having come, there was not a little stir among the soldiers what then was become of Peter, ¹⁹ and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command them to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Caesarea, he was abiding there .

¹⁷ for the Writing saith to Pharaoh—`For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

¹⁸ and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'

⁴² unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, surely now empty thou hadst sent me away; mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath God seen, and reproveth yesternight.'

² `When a man voweth a vow to Jehovah, or hath sworn an oath to bind a bond on his soul, he doth not pollute his word; according to all that is going out from his mouth he doth.

¹⁶ `Three times in a year doth every one of thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which He doth choose—in the feast of unleavened things, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths; and they do not appear before Jehovah empty;

²² And Jehovah saveth Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Asshur, and from the hand of all, and He leadeth them round about; ²³ and many are bringing in an offering to Jehovah, to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, and he is lifted up before the eyes of all the nations after this.

¹⁴ Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.

²⁹ Because of Thy temple at Jerusalem, To Thee do kings bring a present.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I confirm it, To keep the judgments of Thy righteousness.

⁴ When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest—complete. ⁵ Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete. ⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

¹ And it cometh to pass when all the kings of the Amorite which are beyond the Jordan, towards the sea, and all the kings of the Canaanite which are by the sea, hear how that Jehovah hath dried up the waters of the Jordan at the presence of the sons of Israel till their passing over, that their heart is melted, and there hath not been in them any more spirit because of the presence of the sons of Israel.

⁵ Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them:

¹⁰ And now, O kings, act wisely, Be instructed, O judges of earth,

² For Jehovah Most High is fearful, A great king over all the earth.

⁴ For, lo, the kings met, they passed by together, ⁵ They have seen—so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away. ⁶ Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

¹² Kings of hosts flee utterly away, And a female inhabitant of the house apportioneth spoil.

³⁵ Fearful, O God, out of Thy sanctuaries, The God of Israel Himself, Giving strength and might to the people. Blessed is God!

⁶ Howl ye, for near is the day of Jehovah, As destruction from the Mighty it cometh. ⁷ Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt. ⁸ And they have been troubled, Pains and pangs they take, As a travailing woman they are pained, A man at his friend they marvel, The appearance of flames—their faces!

²¹ And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the land on the land.

⁶ I have cut off nations, Desolated have been their chief ones, I have laid waste their out-places without any passing by, Destroyed have been their cities, Without man, without inhabitant.

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains,

¹⁷ And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried, a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in mid-heaven, `Come and be gathered together to the supper of the great God, ¹⁸ that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiefs of thousands, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses, and of those sitting on them, and the flesh of all—freemen and servants—both small and great.' ¹⁹ And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with his army; ²⁰ and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast—the two—to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone; ²¹ and the rest were killed with the sword of him who is sitting on the horse, which sword is proceeding out of his mouth, and all the birds were filled out of their flesh.